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The movie The Queen basically talked about how did the Labour Prime Minister Tony Blair and the Royal Family deal with death of Princess Diana. There are many things about the British political system in the movie, but I would like to mainly identify three things in the movie are role prime minister, election system, and monarchy.
First of all, I will start with the role of Prime Minister. There are three major parties and several small parties in UK. The major parties are Labour Party, the Liberal Democrat Party, and Conservative Party. The prime ministers are the most powerful heads of government of any contemporary democracy. They are also responsible for many governmental decisions. Similar to the Italy, even though the head of state is the president, the head of government is still prime minister. They are named by the Queen, and also have weekly meeting with the Queen. They are selected by the people, as the Mrs. Blair said in the movie, “you are a man that’s just been elected by the nation.” Prime Ministers play a very important role in the British government.
Like the United States, the United Kingdom uses the single-member system based on plurality. Each of the 646 constituencies elected one Member of Parliament, and that member need to get more votes than any other candidate, but not the majority. The voters in UK select all 646bmembers of the House of Commons during the general election. UK campaigns are short affairs, usually lasting less than a month. Compare to US, UK voters focus more on differences between parties rather than on differences between candidates. However, according to the movie, the Queen does not have the right to interfere the election.
The Queen and the prime minister in UK is similar to Japan. Although monarch is head of state and nation, the prime minister is expected to provide national leadership. As we saw in the movie, the Tony Blair of the Labour Party was elected during 1997 election. He was named by the Queen, and then he could select his cabinet, as the Queen said “The duty falls upon me, as sovereign, to invite you to become prime minister and to form a government in my name”. Although the monarch always selects the head of government, the choice must always be the leader of the majority party in the lower house of Parliament. Some of the countries, which have prime minister, are constitutional monarchy, such as Spain, Netherlands, Sweden, Japan and so on. The monarchy in UK is the symbol of the national power; however, it doesn’t have substantive power. In the movie, the Queen said ”Duty first, self second.” It is a good demonstration of the role of the Queen in the political stage in the United Kingdom.
After seeing the movie, I have a better understanding of the roles and importance of Prime Minister and the Queen as well as the process election. The Queen is the head of the State, but the Prime Minister has the power to govern the State. The United Kingdom is the world oldest democracy. I think the Prime Minister, election system and monarchy are very important to the United Kingdom’s democracy.

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