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THE UK: Political System (CONSTITUTIONAL MONARCHY (Judiciary power…

- - - - Government
        
        Conservative Party (in charge)
        
        The leader is the Prime Minister (Theresa May)
        
        who lives and works at 10 Downing Street
        
        The Cabinet , 20 senior ministers appointed by the Prime Minister
        
        Labour Party (opposition)
        
        Shadow Party
  - - - Parliament
        
        The Monarch
        
        Commander-in-chief of all the armed forces ( Royal Navy, Army and Royal Air Force)
        
        Head of the State: signs the laws
        
        Supreme Governor of the Anglican Church since the Anglican schism of Henry VIII (1535)
        
        House of Commons
        
        659 MPs, elected every 5 years
        
        President: The Speaker
        
        They receive a salary
        
        House of Lords (around 1000 lords)
        
        Lords Spirituals: 2 archibishops and 24 bishops of the Anglican Church
        
        Law Lords: the most important judges of UK
        
        Life Peers: who deserved the title from the Queen for their special merits
        
        Hereditary Peers,noblemen and noblewomen who inherit the title from their family
        
        President: Lord Chancellor