He also spent the money in the State Pensions Pot, leaving the cupboard bare for the Conservative–Liberal administration that followed. Without a doubt, at election time, there would be a political change of government and the current party would be in the minority. Changing the Prime Minister must have seemed to be the answer. And there, in Manchester, was the obvious solution: a mayor popular with his electorate who has never run a business, having spent a lifetime on the political left. Yet the Labour Party—and there must have been some money in the background—has managed to shoehorn a Prime Minister into Westminster without the use of democracy.