Government of the United Kingdom

The Government of the United Kingdom is the central executive authority of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. The government is led by the prime minister (currently Keir Starmer), who selects all the other ministers. The country has had a Labour-led government since 2024, with successive prime ministers being the then leader of the Labour Party. The prime minister and their most senior ministers belong to the supreme decision-making committee, known as the Cabinet.

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The reason Thatcher was attractive was that she in many ways was a classical liberal who 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 of Henry VIII.
- Christopher Hitchens, "Charles, Prince of Piffle" Slate (14 June 2010)