POLITICAL

SYSTEM OF UK
JOSÉ WILLIAN DÍAZ VERA
HEIDY TERESA MORALES
MONDRAGÓN
 INTRODUCTION

The United Kingdom is a parliamentary democracy, which

means the government is voted into power by the people.
Each and every adult has the right to vote and this is known
as universal suffrage. Another system in UK, known as the
constitutional monarchy runs in parallel with the
parliamentary democracy.
THE UK POLITICAL SYSTEM
 GOVERNMENT

Refers the functions of all Ministers , they have to be a member

of either the House of Commons (most of them) or the House of
Lords (the remainder of them) and every Government Department
will have at least one Minister in the Lords, so that the Department
can speak in either House as necessary. The number of Ministers
varies from administration to administration, but typically there
will be around 120, the 20 or so most senior being Cabinet
Ministers.
 THE PRIME MINISTER

• The Prime Minister is chosen by a vote of the members of the

How and when is a government. The Prime Minister can keep their job as long as
they are a member of parliament and have the support of the
new PM elected? government.

How long does the • No specific date of appearance of the prime minister has been recorded
as it was not created, but evolved into the prime minister; however,
PM stay in charge? modern historians generally agree that Sir Robert Walpole was the first
to hold such office , who led the country for 21 years, from 1721 to (In
general, the mandate does not last more than 5 years).
 The most important political departments are
called:

The Treasury - It is
responsible for the raising
of all taxes and the control
of all government
expenditure plus the
general management of immigration. The Head of
the economy. The head of
the Treasury is called the the Home Secretary and is
Chancellor of the
Exchequer and is currently
Rishi Sunak.
The Foreign and
Commonwealth Office It
The Home Office It is
is responsible for all
responsible for criminal
international relationships,
matters, policing, and
especially membership of
the European Union. The
the Home Office is called
head of the Foreign Office
is called the Foreign
currently Priti Patel.
Secretary and is currently
Dominic Raab.
Many other UK
Government Departments
are similar to those in
other countries such as
education, health,
transport, industry, and
justice. However, there are
also small departments for
Scotland, Wales, Northern
Ireland and overseas aid.
GOVERNMENT MINISTERS

Parliamentary
Secretary of Minister of Under-
State State Secretary of
This is usually This is a State
the head of a middle-ranking This is the most
Department. minister. junior class of
minister.
Parliament

Also known as Legislature, the

parliament is the highest legislative
authority in the United Kingdom. The
main responsibility of the parliament is
to check the work of the government
and to approve new laws.
 Parliament
The parliament is an essential part of UK political hierarchy. The main roles of
Role of the parliament are examining and challenging the work of the government, if
Parliament necessary; debating and passing of the various laws and enabling the
government to raise taxes.

 The house of Commons is elected by the public.

 The political party with the largest number of members in the Commons
House of
forms the government.
Commons  The members of the Commons are also known as MPs and they are
responsible for debating the political issues and proposing new laws.

House of •The House of Lords complement the work of the House of Commons.
Lords •The members of the House of Lords make laws and investigate the policy
issues.
 Crown
•Along with the House of •The Crown is also referred to
Commons and the House of as the monarchy and the
Lords, the Crown is an current monarch of United
integral part of the UK Kingdom is Queen Elizabeth
political hierarchy. II.

How and when is a new This is by inheritance right after the death of the previous king and
king chosen? the king and queen rule after he has been crowned

The coronation of Queen Elizabeth II as monarch of the United

How long has Elizabeth II
Kingdom, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa,
been in the crown?
Pakistan and Ceylon took place on June 2, 1953 when she was
27 years old
 Formation of
government

The political party that

wins the maximum
number of seats in the
general elections forms
the new government
 POLITICAL PARTIES

The
TheLiberal
Conservative
Democrat
PartyParty
(frequently
(knowncalled
as the
the
The
Lib Labour
Tories)
Dems) Party - the centre-Left party,
The Scottish National Party
(temporarily)
 POLITICAL PARTIES

 The Conservative Party (frequently called  The Labour Party - the centre-Left party,
the Tories). (temporarily.

 The center-Right party, currently  led by Jeremy Corbyn, which was

led by Boris Johnson, which since last in Government from 1997 to
2010 has been in Government 2010.
either in coalition (2010-2015) or
alone (since 2015
 POLITICAL PARTIES

 The Liberal Democrat Party (kn

 The Scottish National Party own as the Lib Dems)

 The party supporting Scottish  The centrist, libertarian party,

independence, which is led by Nicola
(temporarily) led by Jo
Sturgeon. The SNP won 48 seats
(with 3.9% of the vote) – a gain of 13 Swinson, which was the junior
seats out of a total contested of 59. member of the Coalition
Government of 2010-2015.