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Has the Prime Minister become more powerful in recent years?
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Has the Prime Minister become more powerful in recent years? The Prime Minister of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is the head of government and so exercises many of the executive functions nominally vested in the Sovereign, who is head of state. According to custom, the Prime Minister and the Cabinet, which he or she heads, are accountable for their actions to Parliament, of which they are members by modern convention. The current Prime Minister is Tony Blair (of the Labour Party), who has been in office since 1997. During his period in office and also, Margaret Thatchers period in office, there has been wide spread debate about whether the power of the prime minister has increased. Cabinet meetings have become less frequent now and are shorter than before; this signifys that the cabinet has lost it's importance when it comes to collective decision making and the prime...
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