Government of the United Kingdom

TheGovernment of the United Kingdomis thecentral executive authorityof theUnited Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.The government is led by theprime minister(currentlyKeir Starmer), who selects all the otherministers.The country has had aLabour-led government since2024,with successive prime ministers being the thenleader of the Labour Party.The prime minister and their most senior ministers belong to the supreme decision-making committee, known as theCabinet.

Quotes

• The reasonThatcherwas attractive was that she in many ways was aclassical liberalwho had allied herself with the Tory establishment. But when I saw authentic Toryism up close, when I taught at Peterhouse, I had very little affinity with it. I mean, if it means anything it means a reverence for the organic institutions of the English constitution, and I’ve never had any very strong commitment to those. In fact, they are patently obsolescent.
  • Niall Ferguson,as qtd. in Huw Spanner,Past Master: In-depth Interview with Niall Ferguson,High Profiles(Published on 1 November 2007)

• This is what you get when you found a political system on the family values ofHenry VIII.
  • Christopher Hitchens,"Charles, Prince of Piffle"Slate(14 June 2010)

External links

• Encyclopedic article onGovernment of the United Kingdomon Wikipedia