Prime Ministers and their Parties in the United Kingdom

2013 ◽  
pp. 128-150 ◽  
Author(s):  
Timothy Heppell
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Prime Ministers ◽  
The United Kingdom

Presidentialization and the politics of coalition: lessons from Germany and Britain

2015 ◽  
Vol 45 (3) ◽  
pp. 249-275 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas Poguntke ◽  
Paul Webb
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Prima Facie ◽  
Grand Coalition ◽  
Power Sharing ◽  
Coalition Government ◽  
Prime Ministers ◽  
Power Resources ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Recent Developments ◽  
History Of

IntroduzioneIn this article, we seek to re-consider the ‘presidentialization of politics’ argument in the light of recent developments in Germany and the United Kingdom. The experiences of coalition government suggest prima facie grounds for the erosion of the presidentialization process in each country. Germany has operated with a Grand Coalition in which domination of the executive by the Chancellor would seem less likely, whereas the long history of single-party governments in the United Kingdom gave way to a rare experiment in coalitional power sharing between 2010 and 2015, circumstances which should limit prime ministerial power. However, it is our contention that the presidentialization thesis retains its purchase in these two countries. German Chancellors and British prime ministers have been increasingly able to mobilize power resources, which allow them to govern more independently of their own parties and their coalition partners, and this seems to hold across a variety of political circumstances.

scholarly journals The practice of accountability in questioning prime ministers: Comparative evidence from Australia, Canada, Ireland, and the United Kingdom

2021 ◽  
pp. 136914812110585
Author(s):  
Ruxandra Serban
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Text Analysis ◽  
Political System ◽  
The Political ◽  
Prime Ministers ◽  
The United Kingdom

This paper compares the practice of holding prime ministers to account in four case studies: Australia, Canada, Ireland, and the United Kingdom. Using text analysis, as well as research on prime ministerial responsibilities, it investigates oral questions asked in parliamentary procedures where prime ministers are questioned together with ministers (Question Period in Canada and Question Time in Australia) versus procedures where they are questioned individually (PMQs in the United Kingdom and Oral Questions to the Taoiseach in Ireland), and explores the degree to which they are questioned for matters that are within their remit. It argues that the practice of prime ministerial accountability is decisively shaped by procedural features such as whether written notice is required for questions, as well as by the broader role of the questioning mechanism in the political system, and less by the collective or individualised nature of questioning.

The United Kingdom

2021 ◽  
pp. 33-45
Author(s):  
Patrick Weller ◽  
Dennis C. Grube ◽  
R. A. W. Rhodes
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Prime Ministers ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Selection Of ◽  
The Way

This chapter examines the traditions that underpin government in the United Kingdom, with its traditional stress on strong prime ministers dominating their cabinets which control the parliament. Some of these traditions may be myths, but they still create expectations about the way that cabinet government should work. The chapter examines the relations between prime ministers and their ministers. It then uses some of the defining insights from Walter Bagehot’s famous work, The English Constitution, as a lens to understand how this unwritten constitution works. It considers the selection of ministers, the confidentiality of proceedings, and the lack of transparency of cabinet practices.

Central Europe migrant rights could hamper UK/EU deal

2015 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Central Europe ◽  
European Council ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Central European ◽  
Prime Ministers ◽  
Reform Agenda ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Council Presidency

Significance Cameron has revealed details of his EU reform agenda, after weeks of whistle-stop tours, including meetings with all the 'Visegrad Four' (V4 -- Czech, Hungarian, Polish and Slovak) prime ministers. Support from Poland and Slovakia is vital from Cameron's perspective: Poland's Donald Tusk is president of the European Council and Slovakia assumes the six-month Council presidency in July 2016. Impacts The V4 are unlikely to accept all Cameron's proposals and will seek compromises and concessions in key areas, including migrants' benefits. V4 leaders are likely to coordinate an official response to Cameron's EU reform agenda, focusing on demanding more detail on welfare cuts. UK-Central European relations are likely to remain tense in the short term, as V4 leaders are expected to veto demands for treaty change. V4 citizens resident in the United Kingdom are likely to be prominent in the campaign to allow non-UK EU citizens to vote in the referendum.

Part III Prospectus Liability and Litigation, 26 United Kingdom

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
McMeel Gerard
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
United Kingdom ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Member States ◽  
Prime Ministers ◽  
Eu Member States ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Prospectus Liability ◽  
The Uk ◽  
The Eu

This chapter provides an overview of the relevant UK law. The timing of the coming into force in EU Member States of the Prospectus Regulation posed some problems of exposition of the law in the United Kingdom of liability for information in prospectuses. The date of the Regulation coming into force was when it was originally intended that the UK would leave the European Union. When the date for ‘Brexit’ was extended, the Regulation automatically came into force in accordance with orthodox EU and UK arrangements. However, after changing prime ministers, the date for Brexit became uncertain. Furthermore, there were questions as to whether the UK would leave pursuant to the negotiated Withdrawal Agreement or some other withdrawal agreement, or with no agreement with the EU (the ‘no deal’ scenario) at all. The chapter tries to address the various possible scenarios arising from these complications introduced by Brexit.

The United Kingdom

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. C. Sharman
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Development Aid ◽  
Political Commitment ◽  
British Government ◽  
Normative Commitment ◽  
Policy Effectiveness ◽  
Prime Ministers ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Asset Recovery ◽  
International Corruption

This chapter examines the experiences of the United Kingdom in hosting, tracing, and returning the proceeds of grand corruption from abroad. Public top-level political commitment to the anti-kleptocracy norm has translated into only very partial policy effectiveness. The British government then took a close interest in the issue of asset recovery subsequently at home and in multilateral settings. It instituted a program that may serve as something of a model for other countries to follow, whereby development aid money is used to track down looted assets in London. The chapter explains that a sincere normative commitment by successive prime ministers to development-related campaigns against international corruption has led to important and innovative policies to track foreign kleptocrats' wealth in Britain.

What are prime ministers for?

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Hennessy
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Nuclear Weapons ◽  
Prime Minister ◽  
Second World War ◽  
World War ◽  
Prime Ministers ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Second World ◽  
Statutory Basis ◽  
Heads Of Government

The article draws up an assessment of the resources and instruments a new prime minister inherits on his or her first day in 10 Downing Street. It examines the growth in the functions that have fallen to successive prime ministers, as heads of government, over the seven decades since the end of the Second World War. It explains the very special and personal nuclear weapons responsibilities that belong to a prime minister. It touches, too, on the physical and mental strains that often afflict those who carry the office of prime minister. The article examines Jack Straw’s proposal that the United Kingdom prime minister and the collective Cabinet system over which he or she presides should be placed on a statutory basis by Parliament.

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