The more a challenge to May’s leadership looks likely the less the chances of Corbyn becoming next PM
TMay needs to remain until next election if the LAB leader is to become next PM
For some time now the Labour leader, Jeremy Corbyn, has been the favourite in the betting markets on who will succeed Theresa May as prime minister.
The trend is featured in the chart above and I think that punters have got this totally wrong.
The most likely situation in which Mr Corbyn becomes the next occupant of number 10 Downing Street is if Labour wins a general election. It is hard to envisage the circumstances under which he becomes next Prime Minister prior to that.
The blunt fact is that that Labour is 66 seats short of the Tories in the House of Commons and the numbers simply aren’t there for him to get the call from the Palace.
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Having called an election once before and having got it disastrously wrong it is hard to see Theresa May doing the same again in this Parliament. If she’s allowed to remain leader she’ll stay put till 2022.
The essential requirement of Corbyn succeeding May at Number 10 is for her to remain.
One thing that the past few days have scotched, though surely, is the idea that Theresa May will be able to do this. She’s going the main question being when.
Given Labour’s polling position Corbyn still has a good chance of becoming PM but not the next one. There almost certainly needs to be another CON leader in between and the danger for the red team is that the political environment could change.