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The Tories were ridiculed when Douglas-Home took the role, and that was before Viscount Stangate and the Peerage Act of 1963.
How can a party that has somehow positioned itself as an antidote to the metropolitan elite, appoint an unelected Lord as party leader and PM?
The electorate would laugh them out of office.
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The Marquess of Salisbury of Salisbury was.
More recently Douglas-Home was a member of the Lords when he became PM although he resigned and became an MP fairly quickly. Perhaps there will be a vacancy somewhere in North West London?