 Lampson wanted to depose Farouk, but General Robert Stone and Oliver Lyttleton both argued that if Farouk agreed to appoint Nahas Pasha prime minister that the public reaction to "throwing the boy out for giving us at 9 P.M the answer which we should have welcomed at 6 P.M." would be highly negative.Reluctantly, Lampson agreed that Farouk could stay if he agreed to make Nahas prime minister.Farouk asked his military how long the Egyptian Army could hold Cairo against the British and was told two hours.