British Politics: The Basics

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The Prime Minister being the de facto leader of the UK, exercises executive functions that are nominally vested in the sovereign (by way of the Royal Prerogatives).

We give people around the world the opportunity to contribute to the circular economy, earn money and protect the planet, by trading their unwanted books and media. He’s done the dirty on us mate’ was the grim reaction of Johnson’s Australian election strategist Lynton Crosby. Jeremy Corbyn, a veteran ‘hard-left’ Labour MP had scrabbled to accumulate the requisite 35 MP nominations, required by the rules, to stand in the leadership contest. Wales has the Welsh Government and the National Assembly for Wales, which are in charge of things like making laws for Wales and agreeing Welsh taxes. Predictably Conservatives voted 42–68 for Leave, Labour 63–37 for Remain, UKIP 4–96 for Leave, Lib Dem 64–36 Remain and Greens 75–25 Remain.

Public affairs officers leverage their networks, media sources, and contacts to stay up to date on political developments and uncover key information to assist their clients and keep them informed. In modern times, all prime ministers and leaders of the opposition have been drawn from the Commons, not the Lords. The book includes two new chapters on the EU referendum and Brexit, and the extraordinary December 2019 election, as well as coverage of events such as the coronavirus pandemic, and the respective travails of the increasingly split two major political parties.

Single-authored books in contrast reflect the expertise, but also the limitations, of a single author’s knowledge. The latest of edition of the Oxford Concise Dictionary of Politicswas published in 2018 and, in a welcome development, has been expanded to encompass international relations. Finance is provided by PayPal Credit (a trading name of PayPal UK Ltd, Whittaker House, Whittaker Avenue, Richmond-Upon-Thames, Surrey, United Kingdom, TW9 1EH).The only problem with these short commentaries is that one can no longer simply dispose of the earlier edition when a new one is published. One simple and effective criteria is to select the most recently published textbook on the basis that if a week is a long time in politics then the years between editions of most standard textbooks amount to a political epoch. Not since the 1970s had there been a decade containing ‘two general elections, a referendum about Europe, fears for the environment, a rising threat of political violence and a pervasive sense of foreboding’ (Beckett, 2019). The head of His Majesty's Government, the prime minister, also has weekly meetings with the sovereign, where he may express his feelings, warn, or advise the prime minister in the government's work.