Liz Truss, UK Foreign Secretary, has been chosen as the Conservative Party leader and will now be appointed as the prime minister of the UK. Born in 1975 in Oxford, the new leader was given the name Mary Elizabeth Truss at birth, but she prefers to go by her middle name. ...
Despite the UK having a monarchy, the role of the royal family is limited by the constitution. For most government functions, the Prime Minister leads the nation as the chief executive. This is an elected position decided by the citizens....
Dover Robert 2005, The Prime Minister and the Core Executives: A Liberal Intergovernmentalist Reading of UK Defence Policy Formulation 1997-2000, British Journal of Politics and International Relations vol. 7, no 4, pp. 508-528.Dover R. (2005): The Prime Minister and the Core Executives: A...
After a petition asking for a new general election went viral in Britain, Prime Minister Keir Starmer threatened to have petitioners arrested. Rating: After a petition asking the U.K. government to call a new general election went viral, claims began circulating that Prime Minister Keir Starmer...
Although Prime Minister’s Questions (PMQs) are the best-known item on the British parliamentary agenda, there is surprisingly little recent scholarly work on them by political scientists. Patrick Dunleavy et al. (1995) and John and Bevan (2011) concentr
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What's next for the UK under Truss? She has sought to associate herself with another female Conservative prime minister, Margaret Thatcher, who famously encouraged social mobility and ambition in the 1980s. Truss highlighted three priorities: 1) To get the UK working:...
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The use of the term Prime Minister was no more than a tenuous convention from the time of Robert Walpole (1721–42) to the time when Lord North insisted that his Administration resign en bloc in 1782 when he lost favour with King George III. In fact, it