Re: Estate Agents in the UK
She does now, but Alec Douglas-Home is a counter-example. Admittedly, he renounced his peerage, but after he took up office as Prime Minister.
By convention, the Prime Minister is an MP, and leader of the political party that commands a majority in the House of Commons, but in principle the monarch can choose anyone to be Prime Minister. In practice, it needs to be someone who has the confidence of the HoC, which limits the field.
The result is that the next Prime Minister is being chosen by members of the Conservative Party, which is not universally recognised as being a democratic process in this instance, as the general electorate are not getting a choice - it's a highly specific electorate with obscure rules of membership. At the next general election, people can vote according to their views, which may be influenced by who turns out to be the leader of the Conservative and Unionist party, among other things.
It's the process the UK have got, for better or worse, and unlikely to change radically.
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