Has the Prime Minister become more powerful in recent years?
The Prime Minister of the is the and so exercises many of the executive functions nominally vested in the , who is . According to custom, the and the , which he or she heads, are accountable for their actions to , of which they are members by modern convention. The current Prime Minister is (of the ), who has been in office since . During his period in office and also, Margaret Thatchers period in office, there has been wide spread debate about whether the power of the prime minister has increased.