... him to the Minister of Munitions for the final year of the war and was responsible for the production of tanks, aero planes, guns and shells. Later after the war there had been divisions in the Liberal Party where Churchill was ...

... Personally I believe that this view holds much more weight than the view of Disraeli and others that Liverpool was a poor politician and leader. The first thing that should be looked at when assessing Liverpool is the sheer amount of ...

... voters vote Labour (Crewe, 1992). There is also a notion that younger voters are more likely to vote 'radically', i.e. for the smaller, more 'revolutionary' parties (Green party, Socialist Labour Party, etc), however, some would argue that younger, more politically ...

... Max Weber describes it as the ability to influence a desired outcome (in principle the ability to do whatever you want to a certain extent). An example of a person who has power can be Tony Blair who has the ...

... industrialised foreign countries became more and more of a threat to the British industry, and by 1900 both the United States and Germany had probably surpassed England, economically, building up their industries behind high tariff barriers. Foreign manufactured goods were ...

... What is does mean is that only the main parties, the Republicans and the Democrats, the Conservatives and Labour, have a meaningful chance of achieving a majority in the Commons in the UK or in Congress in the USA. In ...

... operating ideology...."1 In the collective government, no one person is in control of decision making-all the decisions are made collectively and not individually. Donleavy suggested that the ministerial government is when the "individual ministers by virtue of their positions ...

... in certain areas but the liberals retained strong support from members of working class as well as Sections of the middle class while labour support in rural areas remained slight but the labour party was making significant progress. However Labour had ...

... had a lot of support to and therefore a large amount of the population in that constituency are going unrepresented. Due to the low turnouts at British elections, which is sometimes as low as 60%, this could mean that a ...

... the street whom the Minister for Health or Minister for Education was, the likely response from that person would be that they would not know. The increasing size of the cabinets over the years may well be so that the ...

... on congressional approval. The presidents has the solitary legislative power of veto, which is entirely negative, and even this can be overridden with 2/3rds majority in both houses. Law making in the UK is often dependent on the size of ...

... 17th century, parliament did not meet continuously. Between 1681 and 1685 it did not meet at all. After the revolution of 1688, the Commons began to meet regularly. As Keith Feiling in A History of England (1959) remarks "it was ...

... due to the shallowness of them, but this was of no concern to the host for he was never around. As I said people got drunk a created a terrible mess for the servants to clean the day after. What ...

... summer and autumn of 1997 to 93 per cent, exceeding those of any post-war Prime Minister. Then things began slowly to cool and a more measured public view began to emerge in 1998. Prominent among the criticisms of Blair have ...

... in the 1970s. Leigh obviously feels some animosity towards middle class people as, by status, they are perceived to be better than he, a working class Jew. But intellectually and culturally, he is superior. The play was aired on BBC, ...

... and her ex-husband, showing us that she is a very nosey character and not bothered at all about Sue's obvious embarrassment about the situation. The conversation moves on to living together and children. Beverly says that she doesn't want kids ...

... institutions still apply the age 25 to differentiate between 'ordinary' and 'mature' students; at the same time some are more concerned with the number of ineffective years outside the educational system. (Squire, G. 1987) According to Roger (1986) the term adult ...

... in ruins following the death of their leader and previous Prime Minister, Lord Liverpool. .They were split disastrously over the issue of Catholic Emancipation and lost to the Whigs the debate over Parliamentary Reform and had been resoundingly defeated in the ...

... otherwise should resign from cabinet. Robin Cook and Claire Short resigned in 2003 from cabinet in oppose to the government's decision to go to Iraq. In a statement giving his reasons for resigning Robin Cook said, "I can't accept collective ...

... in that we felt the need to reflect on it on the world stage was appropriate and required. Mr. Howard's speech stated the tragic ironies of how when the bombing took place, players were celebrating the end of their domestic ...

... Royal prerogative, traditionally the privileges and powers held by the monarch, although in reality today these powers are generally held by the Prime minister/cabinet, the monarchs role being little more that a political ritual; constitutional conventions, which do not have ...

... certain of being a Conservative" "Never have I felt more proud of being a Conservative" This makes Michael Portillo sound powerful, as though he can change how Britain is run alone. The third pronoun used is 'Our'. "Our policies are forged by experience" ...

... the practical realities of being Prime Minister. Additionally, the British political climate has come under recent pressure, due to the changing nature of the core executive and the impact of the mass media and influence of the European Union. This ...

... when trying to get to the top of his 'greasy pole'. However in 1872 he made two speeches/ manifestos that changed the opinions of many that doubted him and had previously regarded him with contempt. Disreali talked about wanting to improve ...

... time. It had suffered many economic problems during the 1980's and the levels of unemployment were high. The closure of coalmines in the 1980's was one of the factors causing the problems, as thousands of jobs were lost. The support ...