Trump says he might meet with Boris Johnson, Nigel Farage during UK visit

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12. Shouldn't be anything stopping a PM being charged, or convicted

It can certainly happen to MPs (we had one convicted for misleading a police investigation, about a speeding ticket, recently - she got a short prison sentence, and the by-election to replace her happens in a week's time), and the PM is 'first among equals' - no special rules for them.

I can't see there's any chance he'd get a really long sentence, even if found guilty. I'll be surprised if he is found guilty - from what I gather, they need to prove he knew he was lying, and not just playing fast and loose with definitions, and I don't think anything like this has been tried before. But it's possible that the case hanging over him will hurt his chances of becoming party leader/PM, which is probably a good thing - he's worse than most of the others.