The Prime Minister Of Great Britain

The Prime Minister of Great Britain

There are a lot of political issues in Great Britain today. United
Kingdom is a large, industrialized democratic society and as such it has to have
politics and therefore political issues. One of those issues how should
executive branch work and whether the Prime Minister has too much power. Right
now in Great Britain there is a great debate on this issue and I am going to
examine it in detail. The facts I have used here are from different writings on
British politics which are all listed in my bibliography, but the opinions are
my own and so are the arguments that I used to support my views.
First let me explain the process through which a person becomes a Prime
Minister. The PM is selected by the sovereign. He (or she) chooses a man who
can command the support of majority of the members of the House of Commons.
Such a man is normally the leader of the largest party in the House. Where two
are rivals in a three party contest such as those which occurred in the 1920s he
is usually selected from the party which wins the greatest number of seats. The
Prime Minister is assumed to be the choice of his party and nowadays, so far as
he can be ascertained, participation of a monarch is a pure formality. Anyone
suggested for this highest political office obviously has to be a very smart and
willing individual, in fact it has been suggested that he be an "uncommon man of
common opinions"(Douglas V. Verney). Not all Prim...

The Prime Minister Of Great Britain

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