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Originally Posted by HarryT
Our political system works completely differently, snookums, in that we don't have a separate vote for Prime Minister - the PM is simply the current leader of whatever political party is in government. If the party changes its leader, the PM changes too, as happened recently when Tony Blair resigned as leader of the labour party, and Gordon Brown was elected leader of the party and hence became PM.
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How is the current leader of the Party selected? That is more or less exactly what our Primaries are about. We are selecting the leader of the party. In the US we never elect a party, we elect people and then that serves to name the leader of the party if the person gets elected. In the congress the party with the majority of people in it then is considered the majorty party and they select a majority leader for congress (separate person in senate and house).