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The Lib Dems under Clegg had no intention of working with Gordon Brown anyway. Clegg said that from halfway through the election.

I had no time for Brown but he was not unelected as we the voters do not elect Prime Ministers, we elect parties to Govt,technically any member for that party elected to Westminster can be PM.

MowHEre on my ballot paper was Gordon Browns name, David Camerons or Nick Cleggs, I voted for a party candidate not whether I wanted him/her to be PM.

Brown was selected by his party to be their leader when Blair went,but as for changing leaders while in Govt, the Conservatives from all I have read were past masters of it.

Winston Churchill elected in 1951, stepped down for Eden to fight the 1955 election, Eden was gone and Harold McMillan made leader of the Conservatives to fight the 1959 election,McMillan stood down in 1963, and Alec Douglas-Home took over as PM until the 1964 election. Then of course in the 90s the Tories stabbed 3 times election winner Thatcher in the back in 1990,got rid of her and replaced her with John Major who then fought the 1992 election.

AS I said we the voters elect parties to govt,we have a party system in the UK, we dont all directly vote for a Prime Minister.
Had for instance Labour or the Conservatives won an overall majority but Gordon Brown or David Cameron lost their seat, then the Labour or Conservative 'party' would have had to put a new PM in place with no referral back to the voters at all.