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Has the role of the Prime Minister become more presidential?
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Has the role of the Prime Minister become more presidential?
The English Prime Minister Tony Blair has already been accused of being an 'elective dictator' but has he also become an English president as well? To delve into the answer you have to obviously compare what a president is with what our prime minister is, or has become.
Lets first start with what a president is: a president is the head of state that holds key powers. The title of head of state refers to status and legitimacy, it is supposed to be something our PM is not as that position is held by our monarch Queen Elizabeth II, but as the power of the monarchy has wavered over the recent century, a number of PMs have basically been acting as England's head of state. For example, Thatcher claimed her encounters with Reagan were meetings of two heads of state and at the funeral of Princess Diana it was Tony Blair rather than the queen who expressed the nation's sorrow in a speech. The important powers of the Crown are basically now only used on the advice of the PM.
When Tony Blair was elected in 1997
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