Choosing the party leader: should it be left to the caucus?

While a party's parliamentary caucus may be the best body to decide when a leader should go, its members are not necessarily the best group to decide who should be the next leader. For one thing, they may be more interested in choosing someone who will help them get re-elected personally than in winning nationally.

Former British prime minister Liz Truss, left, resigned last month after only 44 days in office after her failed attempt to reorient the government's economic agenda, and current British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, right. Photographs courtesy of Commons Wikimedia and Flickr

Opinion

BY MICHAEL HATFIELD

November 10, 2022

OTTAWA—There is almost universal agreement that the United Kingdom's Conservative party made a disastrous choice both for themselves and for the country when they selected Liz Truss to replace Boris Johnson as the party leader. Her policy of generous unfunded tax cuts for the most affluent in a ti...

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