[mlo]

"What throws me is that in Britain, the party leader is it’s presidential candidate."

In Britain the head of state is the Queen, and the evolved tradition is that she delegates most of her power to the Parliament.

[DoughtyOne]

Thanks MLO. I realized they have the monarchy, the Parliament, and the Prime Minister, but I wasn’t (am not) exactly clear about their Parliament, what bodies it has and how that compares to our Congress.