British government
Crown and Commons
The British government is the executive branch of the United Kingdom, led by the Prime Minister and cabinet ministers who sit in Parliament.
The term often refers broadly to the UK's political administration and its policies: The British government announced new trade negotiations.
Unlike systems with strict separation of powers, British government fuses executive and legislative functions—ministers must be members of Parliament.
- voteFormal choice expression
- first past the postHighest vote count wins
- billAmount owed, written
- Magna CartaCharter curbing royal authority
- Commonwealth of NationsPost-imperial voluntary alliance
monarchy · Downing Street · Supreme Court · speech · parliament · prime minister · judiciary · voting rights · Glorious Revolution · welfare state · common law · cabinet · devolution · House of Commons · Home Office · suffragette movement · statute · House of Lords
- Downing Streetfront door, official residence, Georgian architecture, historic building, security gates
British governmentrepublic
State with elected leaders
French Republic · presidential system · absolute monarchy · theocracy · direct democracy
British governmentNazi Germany
Hitler's fascist dictatorship
Spanish Armada · Soviet Union · Soviet government · Third Reich · Chinese Communist Party
British governmentanarchy
Disorder from absent authority
statelessness · anarchism · lawlessness · failed state · the people
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