in the end, it was that which led to his downfall as get more or less from nicholas alan, he is professor of international relations and philosophy at the school of law and social sciences at royal holloway university of london. welcome to the w. is it the democratic to remove a prime minister with such a massive parliamentary majority without an election? well, under the, the usual rule is it's entirely normal for the party government party to be able to change its leader and change prime minister. the speech that bar johnson gave soft noun and talking about his own personal mandate. but the only mandate that anyone has in british politics, n p, 's on personal mandates when they're likely in their constituency. and in so far as the governing party has a mandate, it's based on it's manifesto. so it is, democrats retains prime minister like this. of course, the opposition is going to say that we need to have a new election because there's a new prime minister before he said exactly the same thing. of course, when labor replaced the play with brown, but it's just run of the run of the norma