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Observers of British politics can be forgiven for scratching their heads in recent weeks as they watch the country reel through prime ministers without holding an election. New leader of the Britain s Conservative Party Rishi Sunak walks outside the Conservative Campaign Headquarters on Monday. REUTERS While the opposition Labour Party is demanding an election, the governing Conservatives have just chosen another leader from within their own ranks 鈥?Rishi Sunak, the third prime minister since September. They have the right to do so because of the way Britains parliamentary democracy works. BRITONS N stanley mugs EVER ACTUA stanley cup spain LLY VOTE FOR THEIR PRIME MINISTER Britain is divided into 650 local constituencies, and during an election voters tick a box for the representative they want to become their local member of Parliament. In most cases, this w stanley flask ill be a member of one of the countrys major political parties: the Conservatives, the Labour Party, the Liberal Democrats and the Greens. Also Read | Rishi Sunak is new UK PM: What is his solution to Britain s problems The party that wins the majority of seats in the House of Commons gets to form a government, and that partys leader automatically becomes the prime minister. While coalitions are possible, Britains voting system favors the two largest parties 鈥?the Conservatives or Labour. In most cases a single party will take an absolute majority of seats, as is the case for the Conservatives in the current Parliament. The party of govern Czzv Donald Trump knew hush-money payments were wrong: ex-lawyer Michael Cohen
The US House of Representatives will vote Tuesday to try and override President Donald Trumps veto of a resolution passed earlier by congress overturning his declaration of emergency to fund his promised wall along the border with Mexico. But it is unlikely to succeed. U.S. President Donald Trump holds up his veto of the stanley mug congressional resolution to end his emergency declaration to get funds to build a border wall after signing it in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, U.S., March 15, 2019. REUTERS PHOTO The Democratic-led House needs roughly 290 votes, two-thirds, to override the veto, which would require many more Republicans to join Democrats to oppose the president than when the chamber first passed the resolut stanley ca ion, which was by a simple majority. The Republican-led senate is also unlikely to come up with two-third majority, 66 votes, needed to override the veto when it takes it up for a vote. The presidents emergency declaration has been seen as an attempt by the executive branch to go around congress to find money for the wall denied to it by congress, which holds the governments pursestrings. And many Republicans had defied their president and the party to vote to pas stanley cup s the Democrat-authored resolution in both chambers, despite the fact that many of them supported the presidents wall. But not enough of them are expected to break from their party now to override the presidential veto. The US department of defense has announced, at the same meanti
Observers of British politics can be forgiven for scratching their heads in recent weeks as they watch the country reel through prime ministers without holding an election. New leader of the Britain s Conservative Party Rishi Sunak walks outside the Conservative Campaign Headquarters on Monday. REUTERS While the opposition Labour Party is demanding an election, the governing Conservatives have just chosen another leader from within their own ranks 鈥?Rishi Sunak, the third prime minister since September. They have the right to do so because of the way Britains parliamentary democracy works. BRITONS N stanley mugs EVER ACTUA stanley cup spain LLY VOTE FOR THEIR PRIME MINISTER Britain is divided into 650 local constituencies, and during an election voters tick a box for the representative they want to become their local member of Parliament. In most cases, this w stanley flask ill be a member of one of the countrys major political parties: the Conservatives, the Labour Party, the Liberal Democrats and the Greens. Also Read | Rishi Sunak is new UK PM: What is his solution to Britain s problems The party that wins the majority of seats in the House of Commons gets to form a government, and that partys leader automatically becomes the prime minister. While coalitions are possible, Britains voting system favors the two largest parties 鈥?the Conservatives or Labour. In most cases a single party will take an absolute majority of seats, as is the case for the Conservatives in the current Parliament. The party of govern Czzv Donald Trump knew hush-money payments were wrong: ex-lawyer Michael Cohen
The US House of Representatives will vote Tuesday to try and override President Donald Trumps veto of a resolution passed earlier by congress overturning his declaration of emergency to fund his promised wall along the border with Mexico. But it is unlikely to succeed. U.S. President Donald Trump holds up his veto of the stanley mug congressional resolution to end his emergency declaration to get funds to build a border wall after signing it in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, U.S., March 15, 2019. REUTERS PHOTO The Democratic-led House needs roughly 290 votes, two-thirds, to override the veto, which would require many more Republicans to join Democrats to oppose the president than when the chamber first passed the resolut stanley ca ion, which was by a simple majority. The Republican-led senate is also unlikely to come up with two-third majority, 66 votes, needed to override the veto when it takes it up for a vote. The presidents emergency declaration has been seen as an attempt by the executive branch to go around congress to find money for the wall denied to it by congress, which holds the governments pursestrings. And many Republicans had defied their president and the party to vote to pas stanley cup s the Democrat-authored resolution in both chambers, despite the fact that many of them supported the presidents wall. But not enough of them are expected to break from their party now to override the presidential veto. The US department of defense has announced, at the same meanti
