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Throughout the United Kingdom, the prime minister outranks all other dignitaries except members of the royal family, the lord chancellor, and senior ecclesiastical figures. [n 3]
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Power and decision-making in the UK". BBC Bitesize . Retrieved 13 March 2021. The PM has several roles including:... representing the UK at home and abroad The office of prime minister is not established by any statute or constitutional document, but exists only by long-established convention, whereby the monarch appoints as prime minister the person most likely to command the confidence of the House of Commons. [3] In practice, this is the leader of the political party that holds the largest number of seats in the Commons. Norton, Philip (2016). "A temporary occupant of No.10? Prime Ministerial succession in the event of the death of the incumbent". Public Law: 34. King, Anthony (2007). The British Constitution. Oxford University Press, Oxford. ISBN 978-0-9691436-3-5. Kaarbo, Juliet; Hermann, Margaret G. (1998). "Leadership styles of prime ministers: How individual differences affect the foreign policymaking process" (PDF). Leadership Quarterly. 9 (3): 243–263. doi: 10.1016/S1048-9843(98)90029-7.
King, pp. 3–8. King makes the point that much of the British constitution is in fact written and that no constitution is written down in its entirety. The distinctive feature of the British constitution, he says, is that it is not codified. A new politics: cutting Ministerial pay, Number10.gov.uk, 13 May 2010, archived from the original on 18 June 2010 , retrieved 19 June 2010 Although many of the sovereign's prerogative powers are still legally intact, [n 1] constitutional conventions have removed the monarch from day-to-day governance, with ministers exercising the royal prerogatives, leaving the monarch in practice with three constitutional rights: to be kept informed, to advise and to warn. [16] [17] Modern premiership AppointmentFarnborough, Thomas Erskine, 1st Baron (1896). Constitutional History of England since the Accession of George the Third (11thed.). London: Longmans, Green and Co. {{ cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list ( link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list ( link)