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United Kingdom-Political System

The United Kingdom operates as a parliamentary and constitutional monarchy, with King Charles III as the official head of state. The political system is characterized by a division of power among the legislative, executive, and judicial branches, with Parliament as the supreme legislative authority consisting of the House of Lords and the House of Commons. The current Prime Minister is Rishi Sunak, leading the Conservative Party, and the government is responsible to Parliament while managing national issues and laws.

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United Kingdom-Political System

The United Kingdom operates as a parliamentary and constitutional monarchy, with King Charles III as the official head of state. The political system is characterized by a division of power among the legislative, executive, and judicial branches, with Parliament as the supreme legislative authority consisting of the House of Lords and the House of Commons. The current Prime Minister is Rishi Sunak, leading the Conservative Party, and the government is responsible to Parliament while managing national issues and laws.

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United Kingdom

Political system
Political system
• Parliamentary and constitutional monarchy
• Democracy, in which the counry is governed by represantives of the people and
Parliament
• official head of state is the sovereign-King Charles III.
• Unitary state=>all four countries of the UK are represented in Parliament at Westminster
in London
• Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland all have governing bodies that work exclusively on
issues in their own countries
• The constitution is made up of: 1)statue law(acts of Parliament)
2)common law(law of precedent)
3)conventions(Europian legislation)
• Political power is divided into three branches:legislative, executive, judicial

• Chief Govermental institutions:


• Parliament-chief of legislative body
• Central Goverment-represents executive power
• Law Courts-Judicial power
The Parliament
• The supreme legislative authority,
legislative branch
• Consists of two Houses:1)The
House of Lords 2)the House of
Commons
The House of Lords
• A relic
• Consists of:
• 1)the Lords Spiritual-the Archbishop of Canterbury and the
Archbishop of York and 24 senior bishops
2)The Lords Tempolar-hereditary peers, 300 life peers, 20 law
lords
The House of Commons

• Consists of 650 salaried members


• Elected for 5 years
• Each member represents a constituency
• Chief officer-Speaker
• Main fuctions-are debating, passing laws and examiningthe actions of the
Goverment, regulations governing the UK
The British Goverment
• Is the supreme executive authority
• Consist of the Prime Minister, who is leader of the Govermen party
and other ministers
• The goverment is answerable to Parliament
• Consist of over 80 members
• Executive power is in the hands of the Cabinet->group of about 20
ministers, chosen by Prime Minister from the members of his party
The Sovereign-the King
• Formal head of the UK and the Commonwealth(British
Commonwealth of Nations), the Armed Forces, the system of justice
and of the Anglican Church
• Formally summons Parliament and has also the right to dissolve it
and signs laws
The Judicial branch
• Is headed by the Highest court made up of 10 law lords, who are
members of the House of Lords
Political parties
• The Conservative Party-They would like to reduce income tax and the
give a high priority to national defence and internal law and order
• The Labour Party-stands for equality, for the social weaker people and
for more government involvment in the economical issues
• The Liberal Democratic Party-fall between the Conservatives and
Labour
The British Prime
Minister
• Rishi Sunak
• The most powerful person
• Leader of The Conservative Party
Questions
• 1.Into which three types political power divided?
• 2.Who is the Prime Minister nowadays?
• 3.Who changes the laws?
Video
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cR4CL-bYkFU
• https://greatbritishmag.co.uk/uk-culture/how-the-british-political-syst
em-works/
• https://www.grin.com/document/98364
• https://www.expatica.com/uk/living/gov-law-admin/british-governme
nt-103179/
• https://www.gov.uk/government/how-government-works

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