From the campus of Hillsdale College in Hillsdale, Michigan, this is the Radio Free Hillsdale Hour, bringing the activity and education of the college to listeners across the country.

Here's your host, Scott Bertram.

Hello again, everybody, and welcome in to another

edition of The Radio Free Hillsdale Hour. On this episode, we'll talk with Dr. Larry Arne, president of

Hillsdale College, about Boris Johnson, the new prime minister of Britain. Mark Hemingway from

Real Clear Investigations, talking about who will clean up America's voter roles.

From Hillsdale's English department, Dwight Lindley returns for his occasional series on basic literary terms. Today we talk poetic genre and some students involved in Hillsdale College's

Churchill Project. First, we're joined now by Dr. Larry Arne, president of Hillsdale College

and a man who knows a thing or two about Britain, which is why he joins us today. Dr. Arn, thanks for being here.

It's a pleasure, Scott. Thanks for asking me.

We wanted to chat today about Boris Johnson and his new role as Prime Minister and leader of the Conservative Party in Britain.

To start, Dr. Arn, for those who are somewhat unfamiliar with the British system of government, can you tell us the role and what

of the responsibilities of the prime minister? Well, the British political system was produced

through a long history, parts of it not intended at all until later.

And what that means is it's a parliamentary system. There's two houses, a House of Commons and a

House of Lords. The Commons is much more strong than the House of Lords. And the House of Commons, the majority party in the House of Commons,

picks the people who formed the government, including the Prime Minister.

And that devolved from a system where the King was picking his ministers,

but the House of Commons especially got stronger and stronger,

and eventually they took that away from him.

And so that's how it came to be the way it is.

Now, the prime minister, it means what it says, he's the first among the ministers.

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