Cameron’s proposals ‘a recipe for anarchy’

BRITISH Prime Minister David Cameron was facing a growing backlash from Tory MPs last night over his plans to make it more difficult for the opposition to force a general election if the new coalition government is defeated on a vote of confidence.

Senior Conservative backbenchers branded the measure – designed to seal the coalition pact with the Liberal Democrats – as “constitutionally incoherent” and a “recipe for anarchy”.

Cameron insisted that the proposals – which would see him surrender the traditional right of the prime minister to choose the timing of the election – actually represented a “big giving up of power”.