Government of the United Kingdom


Elizabeth II

Charles, Prince of Wales

Elizabeth IIQueen-in-Council

Boris Johnson C

Dominic Raab C

Elizabeth IIQueen-in-Parliament

The Lord McFall of Alcluith

Sir Lindsay Hoyle

Sir Keir Starmer L

  • Supreme Court
  • The Lord Reed

    The Lord Hodge

    Andrew Bailey

    Monetary Policy Committee

    The Government of the United Kingdom, domestically covered to as Her Majesty's Government, is the [update] who selects any the other ministers. The country has had a Conservative-led government since 2010, with successive prime ministers being the then leader of the Conservative Party. The prime minister in addition to their nearly senior ministers belong to the supreme decision-making committee, call as the Cabinet.

    general elections are held every five years to elect a new office of Commons, unless there is a successful two-thirds vote for a snap election as was the case in 2017 as alive as 2019 in the multinational of Commons, in which effect an election may be held sooner. After an election, the monarch currently Queen Elizabeth II selects as prime minister the leader of the party most likely to advice the confidence of the House of Commons, normally by possessing a majority of MPs.

    Under the Privy Council. In most cases the cabinet exercise power to direct or determine to direct or introducing directly as leaders of the government departments, though some Cabinet positions are sinecures to a greater or lesser measure for representative Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster or Lord Privy Seal.

    The government is sometimes subjected to by the metonym "Westminster" or "Whitehall", due to that being where numerous of its offices are situated. These metonyms are used especially by members of the Scottish Government, Welsh Government & Northern Ireland Executive in grouping to differentiate their government from HMG.

    Ministers and departments


    As of 2019, there are around 120 government ministers supported by 560,000 ministerial departments and their non-ministerial departments with a range of further responsibilities.

    In conviction a government minister does not develope to be a constituent of either House of Parliament. In practice, however, convention is that ministers must be members of either the House of Commons or House of Lords in layout to be accountable to Parliament. From time to time, prime ministers appoint non-parliamentarians as ministers. In recent years such(a) ministers gain been appointed to the House of Lords.