So was Evgeny Lebedev, owner of the Independent and Evening Standard newspapers.

The Liberals pushed through parts of their programme, but the Conservatives vetoed or modified others.

The prime minister then formally The prime minister will appoint all other cabinet members (who then become active Privy Counsellors) and ministers, although consulting senior ministers on their junior ministers, without any Parliamentary or other control or process over these powers. Contemporaries seemed to sense from the beginning that history was being made.

The office of Prime Minister is not established by any statute or constitutional document but exists only by long-established Prior to 1902, the prime minister sometimes came from the The status and executive powers of the British prime minister means that the incumbent is consistently ranked as one of the most powerful democratically-elected leaders in the world.

... it is probable that no Prime Minister ever fulfilled so completely and thoroughly the functions of the office, parliamentary, administrative, and general as Sir Robert Peel.

"Such conduct", the Queen said, "is unheard of and the only excuse is—that he is not quite sane. The expression "His Majesty's Opposition" was coined by Informally recognized for over a century as a convention of the constitution, the position of Leader of the Opposition was given statutory recognition in 1937 by the British prime ministers have never been elected directly by the public.

Members of Parliament may be expelled from their party for failing to support the Government on important issues, and although this will not mean they must resign as MPs, it will usually make re-election difficult.

These practices caused confusion and dissension in Cabinet meetings; King George's experiment in personal rule was generally a failure.

Disraeli, who expanded the Empire to protect British interests abroad, cultivated the image of himself (and the Conservative Party) as "Imperialist", making grand gestures such as conferring the title "Gladstone went beyond image by appealing directly to the people.

My eye, what a crisis! Boris Johnson became Prime Minister on 24 July 2019.

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Stanley Baldwin, British Conservative politician, three times prime minister between 1923 and 1937; he headed the government during the General Strike of 1926, the Ethiopian crisis of 1935, and the abdication crisis of 1936.

Provided that he or she controls the Cabinet, maintains party discipline, and commands a majority in the Commons, the prime minister is assured of putting through his or her legislative agenda.

It is true that we have on the Statute-book great instruments like Magna Carta, the Petition of Right, and the Bill of Rights which define and secure many of our rights and privileges; but the great bulk of our constitutional liberties and ... our constitutional practices do not derive their validity and sanction from any Bill which has received the formal assent of the King, Lords and Commons.