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Some political commentators have suggested that the British prime minister is one ofthe most powerful figures. Lord Hailsham for example has described the office as being one of ’elected dictatorship'.
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Some political commentators have suggested that the British prime minister is one of the most powerful figures. Lord Hailsham for example has described the office as being one of 'elected dictatorship'. Certainly the question of the position of the prime minister has come back into consideration again with the Blair government and its apparently unassailable position in the House of Commons. The source of the PM's powers lie principally in convention, unlike other systems which have a written constitution, setting out the respective powers of the different parts of government. The prime minister is chosen simply as being the leader of the largest party in the Commons, and the powers he has derive from the Royal Prerogative i.e. the powers once exercised by the monarch have been taken up in practice by the PM, although the monarch still has a formal role, for example it is the Queen who dissolves parliament,...
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