Luthori

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Sometimes, a man’s fall from grace can be even more spectacular than his rise. Prime Minister Harper, a man known for having pushed unpopular laws, such as the Treason Act in 5698 or the Crime Act in 5696. He, with his conservative government are notorious for having pushed for the return of first-past-the-post as the electoral system in usage for general elections and the reform of the Senate into the House of Peers, an unelected body composed of 400 peers (capped at 800 by law – other members can be added), appointed by the Sovereign at the advice of the Prime Minister (life peers) or through birthright (hereditary peers) or as members of the Holy Luthori Church’s high clergy.

These conservative “reforms”, demanded by the right for a century at this point, seems to have finally buried former Prime Minister, Harold MacGregor’s work and his ideology of “reformed conservatism”, now the Conservative Party stand once again as the party of “tradition”, undoing any work of any Conservative Prime Ministers. This work wouldn’t have been possible without the groundwork laid by former Prime Ministers Brooke or Parker-Stanford, who for 17 years laid the foundation used by the now-former Prime Minister Brooke to dismantle the “Age of Reform” in Luthorian politics.

With this, PM Harper’s credentials as a “conservative hero” were now secured, and nothing could have prevented him from running at the 5700 general elections (through a recent Act of Parliament – parliamentary term was reduced by a year, from 5 to 4 years and 43 new MPs will enter the Imperial Diet, 434 to 477) as an unbeatable candidate for the new Labour leader, Edward Holian-Keaty to possibly hope to defeat.

But all wasn’t well. Behind the surface hid a government rotten to the core, filled with corruption and “conflict of interests”, it was revealed by the Guardian that the now-Conservative Foreign Secretary Gordon Learmouth, long thought as a potential leader for either the Liberal Party or the Conservative Party, had accepted funds from illicit corporate sources to fund his electoral campaigns.

The scandal brought down the Government, as the Tories in the Diet each demanded to the Prime Minister to resign, at first, he resisted those calls, but following the resignation of Home Secretary Harper for “health reasons”, although most likely an opportunity to leave the sinking ship, the Prime Minister relented and tendered his resignation to Emperor Richard II at the Orange Palace today.

Replacing him after securing the 5699 Conservative leadership election will be relatively unknown young Santerford MD Cameron Seddon (41), who’s been selected to become the new Leader of the Conservative Party and ex officio as Prime Minister of Luthori, beating out former Home Secretary Margaret Harper for the leadership position.

In his resignation honours, the former Prime Minister honoured both Harper and Plundell with life peerages that granted them membership in the House of Peers, Mrs. Plundell became the Baroness Plundell of Mayflower and Mrs. Harper became the Baroness Harper of Shinigtown. Both former Cabinet ministers will be introduced in the House of Peers as life peers and part of the Conservative Parliamentary Party.

Mr. Seddon becomes the youngest Prime Minister of Luthori, ushering in a new age for a party now dominated by the aging conservative, hard right establishment. Whether or not the new Prime Minister may prove himself as more of a change than his predecessor, remains to be seen.

A classical conservative, Mr. Seddon seized the conservative leadership on promise of a “return to normalcy” and Conservative orthodoxy after years of what is now dubbed as the Luthorian “conservative revolution”.

For now, Seddon expressed a focus on foreign affairs, stating he’ll focus on the task ahead in New Verham, economics, where he expressed his intention of putting “innovation” at the forefront of his economic policy and most importantly, “prosperity for all”, as he moves from his predecessor’s government “heavy-handed” approach on domestic affairs.

The Emperor is expected to receive his cabinet appointments tomorrow.