Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

The Prime Minister of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland ( Premium Minister ) is the chief Gouvernement of Its Majesty and holds the Executive power. He is thus the true political leader of the country and his representative on the international scene. Current the Prime Minister is, since June 27th 2007, Gordon Brown, of the Workers party.

Nomination

The Prime Minister is nominally invested by the King - or the Queen - of Great Britain. Nevertheless, the chief of the Government must have the confidence and the support of the majority of the House of Commons, principal Room of the British Parlement.

Thus, the monarch systematically names the chief of the majority party after each legislative election. They are thus indirectly the voters who elect their Prime Minister.

The Prime Minister and the members of his government are responsible politically before the Parliament, of which they are, by convention, members.

History

The function of Prime Minister with the modern direction appears at the 18th century, with Sir Robert Walpole in 1721. But its role is not yet the same one as today. At the time, it was only the Primus inter pares and its function was especially coordinator.

The term of “Prime Minister” Prime minister in English is probably of French origin, Richelieu already carried it at the 17th century. Walpole carried the title of First Lord of the Treasury ( First Lord off the Treasury ) like the near total of its successors until today. Under the reign of George Ier, the Cabinet takes the practice to meet under the presidency of the Prime Minister, because the sovereign did not speak English and was interested much more in his kingdom of Hanover that to that of Great Britain. Benjamin Disraeli is the first to use its title of Prime Minister by signing the Treaty of Berlin in 1878. In 1905, a law on the protocol quotes it and just places it after Archevèque of York.

It is under the reign of the Reine Victoria - longest of the history of the Kingdom, 1837 to 1901 - that the Prime Minister gains in importance with respect to the monarch, this one primarily preserving like right that to be consulted, of advising and informing. One can locate at the beginning of the 20th century the moment or the chief of the government becomes the real chief of the executive. In 1905 that Henry Campbell-Bannerman is the first to carry the title of " officially; first ministre".

The importance of the function still increased: between 1940 and 1945, Churchill exerted a quasi-dictatorial role. In the Sixties, a work of political science entitled the Monarch elected ( The Elected Monarch ) was published and compared the function in that of a President in a presidential regime. Margaret Thatcher in 1982, for the War of the Falklands and Tony Blair in 2003, for the Guerre of Iraq largely decided only, even if they had the quasi unanimous support of the Parliament.

See also: List of the Prime Ministers of the United Kingdom

Residence

The Prime Minister of the United Kingdom resides at the 10 Downing Street, house seemingly rather simple but well-known, located in the Cité of Westminster in the middle of London.

This residence had been offered by the King George II to Sir Robert Walpole as “a First Lord off the Treasury ” in thanks of its services rendered to the Kingdom. It since passed from hand in hand to all those occupying this function, attached to that of Prime Minister.

Opposite number 10, at number 11 of Downing Street the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Minister for the Economy and Finances of the government resides.

External bond

Official site of British the Prime Minister

Simple: Precede Minister off the United Kingdom

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