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I'm flexible on the timing. I would want it to be short enough that MPs see the immediate risk to their seat, but long enough to effect a smooth transition of power. My problem is that at the moment it is too easy to chop and change leaders. Every MP jostles for power/position by switching allegiance from one leader to another. If all those marginal seat MPs had the choice of: change leader and risk getting binned off for Reform, or stick with the leader and let him see his manifesto (which everyone signed up to) through to the end. I think we'd see a lot more leaders see out their terms and more stable government generally. Obviously there would be times (Truss budget for example) where you have to make a snap decision that things have really gone off the rails, but Truss is really an example of what happens when you can sub in leaders with no risk to those making the decision.