Английская Википедия:Deputy Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
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The Deputy Prime Minister of the United Kingdom is the second highest ranking minister of the Crown and a member of the British Cabinet. The title is not always in use and prime ministers have been known to appoint informal deputies without the title of deputy prime minister. The incumbent deputy prime minister is Oliver Dowden who also serves as Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Secretary of State in the Cabinet Office.
Constitutional position
The position of deputy prime minister carries no salary and therefore it is necessary to appoint the holder to another position which entitles them to draw a salary under the Ministerial and other Salaries Act 1975.Шаблон:Sfn The office is not always in use, and prime ministers may use other offices, such as First Secretary of State, to indicate the seniority. The holder of the position has no right to automatic succession.Шаблон:Sfn
Historically there has been resistance by the monarch to appointing an individual as deputy prime minister as it might be considered to infringe upon their royal prerogative to choose a prime minister.Шаблон:Sfn However, Rodney Brazier has more recently written that there is a strong constitutional case for every prime minister to appoint a deputy prime minister, to ensure an effective temporary transfer of power in most circumstances.Шаблон:Sfn Similarly, Vernon Bogdanor has said that that argument holds little weight in the modern context, since the monarch no longer has any real discretion, and that, even in the past, a person acting as deputy prime minister had no real advantage to being appointed prime minister by the monarch (though this might be different within political parties in relation to their respective leaderships).Шаблон:Sfn Like Brazier, he also says that there is a good constitutional case for recognising the office; for in the case of the death or incapacity of the incumbent prime minister.Шаблон:Sfn
Brazier has written that there are three reasons why a deputy prime minister has been appointed: to set out the line of succession to the premiership preferred by the prime minister, to promote the efficient discharge of government business and (in the case of Labour governments) to accord recognition to the status of the deputy leader of the Labour party.Шаблон:Sfn
When the position has been in use in the past, the deputy prime minister has deputised for the prime minister at Prime Minister's Questions.[1]
History
Before World War II, while a minister was occasionally invited to deputise as prime minister when the prime minister was ill or abroad, no one was styled as such when the prime minister was in the country and physically able to run the government.Шаблон:Sfn This changed in 1942 when Clement Attlee was styled as deputy prime minister by Winston Churchill. This designation was seen as an exceptional result of a coalition and the war,Шаблон:Sfn and Attlee's 1942 appointment was not formally approved by the King[2] [3]Шаблон:Sfn and was a matter of form rather than fact.Шаблон:Sfn The designation was because Prime Minister Winston Churchill wanted to demonstrate the importance of the Labour party in the coalition, not for any reasons relating to succession; he actually left written advice that the King should send for Anthony Eden if he were to die, not Attlee.Шаблон:Sfn Unusually in comparison to other unofficial deputy prime ministers, Clement Attlee was described as deputy prime minister by Hansard, whereas other unofficial deputies are described using their official position.[3]
After this, fearing a possible curtailment of the monarch's prerogative to choose a prime minister, no one was formally styled deputy prime minister (though there was often a senior minister generally regarded as such) until Michael Heseltine in 1995 was formally styled deputy prime minister. As the title of deputy prime minister did not hold any statutory authority Heseltine was also appointed as First Secretary of State.[2] John Prescott served as deputy prime minister under Tony Blair during the entirety of Blair's premiership, and remains the longest serving deputy prime minister. Prescott's statutory authority was originally drawn from his concurrent position as Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, however in 2001 this department was broken up an Office of the Deputy Prime Minister (ODPM) was also formed within the Cabinet Office.[3] To ensure he continued to hold statutory authority, he was appointed First Secretary of State. In June 2003, the ODPM became a separate department and absorbed the local government and regions portfolios from the defunct Department for Transport, Local Government and the Regions. During the 5 May 2006 reshuffle of Tony Blair's government, Prescott kept his position as deputy prime minister but lost his departmental authority and OPDM was renamed the Department for Communities and Local Government and headed by Ruth Kelly. The position was vacant during Gordon Brown's premiership.
After the Conservatives and the Liberal Democrats formed a coalition government in 2010, Nick Clegg was appointed deputy prime minister[4][5] under David Cameron, and served in this role until he resigned after the Conservatives won a majority in the 2015 general election. During the coalition William Hague was appointed by Cameron as First Secretary of State, the only time that both these positions have existed concurrently but not been held by the same person. During this time Cameron described Hague rather than Clegg as being his "de facto political deputy".[2] The office of deputy prime minister was vacant for the remainder of Cameron's premiership and the entirety of Theresa May's premiership.Шаблон:Sfn
In 2020, a year before being formally styled deputy prime minister, Dominic Raab deputised for Boris Johnson while Johnson was in hospital with COVID-19, though was not formally styled deputy prime minister until September 2021. Raab served as deputy prime minister during the remainder of Johnson's premiership. Thérèse Coffey served as deputy prime minister in September and October 2022 under Liz Truss, becoming the shortest serving deputy prime minister in history. After Rishi Sunak became prime minister, he reappointed Raab as deputy prime minister,[6] making him the first non-consecutive holder of the office. Raab resigned in April 2023 after the investigation into his alleged bullying was published, and was succeeded by incumbent deputy prime minister Oliver Dowden.
Office and residence
There is no set of offices permanently ready to house the deputy prime minister.Шаблон:Sfn Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg maintained an office at the Cabinet Office headquarters, 70 Whitehall, which is linked to 10 Downing Street.[7] Clegg's predecessor, Prescott, maintained his main office at 26 Whitehall.[8]
The prime minister may also give them the use of a grace and favour country house.Шаблон:Sfn While in office, Nick Clegg resided at his private residence in Putney and he shared Chevening House with First Secretary William Hague as a weekend residence.[9] Clegg's predecessor, John Prescott, used Dorneywood.Шаблон:Sfn
Succession
Nobody has the right of automatic succession to the prime ministership.Шаблон:Sfn However, it is generally considered that in the event of the death of the prime minister, it would be appropriate to appoint an interim prime minister, though there is some debate as to how to decide who this should be.Шаблон:Sfn
According to Brazier, there are no procedures within government to cope with the sudden death of the prime minister.Шаблон:Sfn There is also no such title as acting prime minister of the United Kingdom.Шаблон:Sfn Despite refusing "...to discuss a hypothetical situation" with BBC News in 2011,[10] the Cabinet Office is reported to have said in 2006:Шаблон:Sfn Шаблон:Blockquote Additionally, when the prime minister is travelling, it is standard practice for a senior duty minister to be appointed who can attend to urgent business and meetings if required, though the prime minister remains in charge and updated throughout.[11]
On 6 April 2020, when Prime Minister Boris Johnson was admitted into ICU, he asked First Secretary of State Dominic Raab "to deputise for him where necessary".[12]
List of deputy prime ministers
In addition to the many unofficial deputies (see below), some people have been formally appointed deputy prime minister. Ministers are appointed by the monarch, on the advice of the prime minister.[13] Six people can be described as definitely having been appointed deputy prime minister in such a manner.[Note 1][Note 2]Шаблон:SfnШаблон:SfnШаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn
Timeline
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Unofficial deputies
The prime minister's second-in-command has variably served as deputy prime minister, first secretary and de facto deputy and at other times prime ministers have chosen not to select a permanent deputy at all, preferring ad hoc arrangements.Шаблон:Sfn It has also been suggested that the office of Lord President of the Council (which comes with leading precedence) has been intermittently used for deputies in the past.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn
Lists
Picking out definitive deputies to the prime minister has been described as a highly problematic task.Шаблон:Sfn
Bogdanor, in his 1995 publication The Monarchy and the Constitution, said that the following people had acted as deputy prime ministers (by this he meant they had chaired the Cabinet in the absence of the prime minister and chaired a number of key Cabinet Committees):Шаблон:Sfn
| Clement Attlee |
| Herbert Morrison |
| Anthony Eden |
| Rab Butler |
| George Brown |
| Michael Stewart |
| Reginald Maudling |
| Willie Whitelaw |
| Geoffrey Howe |
In an academic article first published in 2015, Jonathan Kirkup and Stephen Thornton used five criteria to identify deputies: gazetted or styled in Hansard as deputy prime minister; 'officially' designated deputy prime minister by the prime minister; widely recognised by their colleagues as deputy prime minister; second in the ministerial ranking; and chaired the Cabinet or took Prime Minister's Questions in the prime minister's absence.Шаблон:Sfn They said that the following people have the best claim to the position of deputy to the prime minister:Шаблон:Sfn
| Clement Attlee |
| Herbert Morrison |
| Anthony Eden |
| Rab Butler |
| George Brown |
| Michael Stewart |
| Willie Whitelaw |
| Geoffrey Howe |
| Michael Heseltine |
| John Prescott |
| Nick Clegg |
They also said that the following three people would have a reasonable claim:Шаблон:Sfn
| Bonar Law |
| Edward Short |
| Michael Foot |
Brazier has listed the following ministers as unambiguously deputy to or de facto deputies of the prime minister:Шаблон:Sfn
| Clement Attlee | 1940–1945 |
| Anthony Eden | 1945 1951–1955 |
| Rab Butler | 1955–1963 |
| George Brown | 1964–1970 |
| Reginald Maudling | 1970–1972 |
| Willie Whitelaw | 1979–1988 |
| Geoffrey Howe | 1989–1990 |
| Michael Heseltine | 1995–1997 |
| John Prescott | 1997–2007 |
| Nick Clegg | 2010–2015 |
| George Osborne | 2015–2016 |
| Damian Green | 2017 |
| David Lidington | 2018–2019 |
| Dominic Raab | 2019–2022 |
Lord Norton of Louth has listed the following people as serving as deputy prime minister, but not being formally styled as such:Шаблон:Sfn
| Herbert Morrison | 1945–1951 |
| Anthony Eden | 1951–1955 |
| Rab Butler | 1962–1963 |
| Willie Whitelaw | 1979–1988 |
| Geoffrey Howe | 1989–1990 |
| David Lidington | 2018–2019 |
See also
- First Secretary of State
- Deputy Leader of the Conservative Party (UK)
- Deputy Leader of the Labour Party (UK)
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