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It is speculated that former prime minister Dr Mahathir Mohamad resigned because he could not achieve a supermajority or the unbridled power he enjoyed during his first term in office. – The Malaysian Insight file pic, February 7, 2021.
ON September 3, 2019, former MP Philip James Lee crossed the floor in the UK Parliament, defecting from the Conservative party to join the Liberal Democrats as a principled act of protest against the Tories’ hard Brexit stance.
The one-man rebellion had the effect of vanquishing Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s one-vote majority in the House of Commons. Yet Johnson limped on, albeit as a humiliated and weakened prime minister for another three months before dissolving parliament.