The Government-the Cabinet and

The Prime Minister

N E A C S U A L EX A N D R A
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C O N S TA N TI N D IA N A
The government system of Great Britain consists of
three parts:
• Legislative
• Executive
• Judiciary

As part of the UK, England has a parliamentary democracy with a

constitutional monarch, Queen Elizabeth II, as Head of State.
The structure of government in Great Britain
The Queen is officially head of all the branches of government, but she has
little direct power in the country. The constitution has three branches:
Parliament, which makes lows, the government, which “executes” laws and
the courts, which interpret laws.
Forming a Government. The Cabinet.
• The party which wins the most seats in the General Elections forms the
government in Britain.
• The Government are the people responsible for running the country.
The political party that wins the most seats at a General Election takes
charge of the Government for five years, until the next General
Election.
• The leader of the winning party becomes Prime Minister. As leaders of
their political parties and leaders of the country, Prime Ministers are
powerful because they have the majority support in Parliament and
they can choose their own ministers called the Cabinet.
The Cabinet.
• This is made up of a selection of senior MPs from the House of
Commons and some members of the House of Lords.
• Each member of the Cabinet is a minister responsible for a government
department: for example, the Secretary of State for Education and
Science is responsible for all the schools, universities and teachers in
Britain.
• The Cabinet of Minister’s house—Downing Street. The cabinet works
as a team and all ministers must accept the decisions of the “group”.
The team of ministers must always agree in public because they are
collectively responsible for the decisions they make. If a minister
cannot agree with all the others, he usually resigns from the cabinet.
What does the Government do?
• The Government is responsible for deciding how the country is run and
for managing things, day to day. They set taxes, choose what to spend
public money on and decide how best to deliver public services, such
as:
• the National Health Service
• the police and armed forces
• welfare benefits like the State Pension
• the UK's energy supply
The Primer Minister, or leader of the
Government
• The Primer Minister, is usually the leader of the political party.
• A prime minister stays in office until they resign, die or are dismissed
by the Governor General
Thank you.
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