
All major examination boards require an understanding of the impact and importance of emerging and minor parties to UK politics and debates, alongside debates around the development of a multi-party system in the UK.
The recent Conservative Party leadership election has sparked debate and interest into how parties choose their leaders. The issue of how Labour and the Conservatives choose leaders goes beyond the topic of party structures, and well beyond any A-level specification. The reason is simple: it is unlikely that anyone could become prime minister without having first won a Labour or Conservative leadership contest. The winner of the recent Tory leadership contest has automatically replaced Boris Johnson as prime minister.
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