Cynical but I think it's worth considering that the last couple of PMs to leave might have been offered a comfortable retirement by people around the party in o

Cynical but I think it's worth considering that the last couple of PMs to leave might have been offered a comfortable retirement by people around the party in order to not call an election. Not in the "here's a bag of money" sense but pretty close, as in "listen I'll make sure you'll always be on the after dinner circuit".