Political Question

[drplokta]

Suppose that the Tories manage to scrape together enough votes for a small majority, and form the next government, with the LibDems getting the second-highest number of votes but fewer than half as many seats as Labour (maybe 38% Conservative (327 seats), 28% LibDem (86 seats), 25% Labour (210 seats)). Who gets to be the official Opposition?

Comments

[ceemage.livejournal.com]

Labour. Officially, it's up to the Speaker to determine the Leader of the Opposition, but it's always been done on seats. (OBException: During WWII, after the Labour front bench joined the coalition government, it was the senior Labour backbencher.)