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POLITICS IN THE UK - Coggle Diagram

- - - - Keir Rodney Starmer
  - - - Edward Jonathan Davey
  - - - Boris Jhonson
  - - - Nicola Ferguson Sturgeon
- - - - elected
      - a politician
    - - make laws
      - have any political power
    - - has to sign new laws, and she can't say 'no'
      - meets the Prime Minister to discuss policy
- - - - 659 members, called
        
        Members of Parliament (MPs)
        
        elected every 5 years by British people
        
        they discuss new laws and vote Yes (for) or No (against) a new law
    - - the members are about 800, called
        
        Peers
        
        British people don't elect them
        
        are important and successful people
        
        become members of the House of Lords, for life
      - checks new laws
      - gives advice
      - asks for changes
      - can't completely reject a law
  - - - these MPs can make some local laws.
- - - - runs the country
      - takes decisions on taxation
      - make important decisions
      - proposes new laws
- - - - each constituency vote one MP