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A wide shot of Prime Minister's Questions in 2024, showing the House of Commons packed with members. Prime Minister's Questions (PMQs, officially known as Questions to the Prime Minister, while colloquially known as Prime Minister's Question Time) is a constitutional convention in the United Kingdom, currently held as a single session every Wednesday at noon when the House of Commons is ...
David Cameron answering Prime Minister's Questions in 2012. In the United Kingdom, question time in the House of Commons, officially titled Oral Answers to Questions, lasts for an hour each day from Monday to Thursday (2:30 to 3:30pm on Mondays, 11:30am to 12:30pm on Tuesdays and Wednesdays, and 9:30 to 10:30am on Thursdays). Each Government ...
The prime minister of the United Kingdom is the principal minister of the crown of His Majesty's Government, and the head of the British Cabinet.. There is no specific date for when the office of prime minister first appeared, as the role was not created but rather evolved over time through a merger of duties. [1]
Sir Keir Starmer faced questions from the Opposition and his own MPs in the House of Commons in the first Prime Minister’s Questions (PMQs) led by a Labour leader in 14 years.
English: Sir Jeffrey M Donaldson (Leader of the Democratic Unionist Party and MP for Lagan Valley) at Prime Minister's Questions, 7 February 2024. Date 7 February 2024, 13:22:30
The leader of the opposition usually asks the prime minister six questions, and the leader of the third-largest parliamentary party can ask two questions. It is an occasion when the prime minister appears regularly on live television and radio. The current Prime Minister, Keir Starmer, speaking in the House of Commons on 4 September 2024
As prime minister, Johnson also served simultaneously as First Lord of the Treasury, Minister for the Civil Service, Minister for the Union, and Leader of the Conservative Party. Johnson defeated Jeremy Hunt in the 2019 Conservative Party leadership election on 23 July 2019, and was appointed prime minister the following day.
Johnson publicly announced his resignation as party leader and Prime Minister at 12:30 on 7 July, and stated he would remain as Prime Minister until a new party leader is elected. [64] At Prime Minister's Questions on 13 July 2022, Johnson said that he would leave office "with my head held high". [65]