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'The formal powers of the Prime Minister are considerable' Discuss.
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Tom C 'The formal powers of the Prime Minister are considerable' Discuss. The Prime Minister is the leader of the party that has been voted into power by the electorate, and runs the country on behalf of the people who voted for them and the party that they represent. The current Prime Minister is Tony Blair, leader of the Labour Party. He gained a huge majority of seats in parliament, over 150 more than the other parties put together. It is due to this power, that some political commentators are linking this with what they see as arrogant behaviour in the Prime Minister. Yet the debate on whether the Prime Minister has a large amount of power for quite a while, back to a political commentator called Sidney Low. He suggested that a contributing reason to an increase in power of the PM was the 'increasing size of cabinets', which he felt...
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