Should House Of Commons Be A Representative Government Analysis

The House of Commons cannot representative for British citizens
This essay will analyze that the House of Commons cannot be a representative of British citizens from the mandate, the choices of citizens, the social background of MPs, the influence of opposition to the government, and the conflict between roles of parliamentarians their aspects.

Mandate
During General Election, each area in the UK needs to elect a person(MP) who is transferred the mandate by constituencies to represent them. However MPs from different areas have different mandate to support them, like in Manchester which did not gain a strong mandate in 2017. It was fact without a doubt about Manchester always won in Labour Party, that is the reason why only 55.1 percent local

The table (2017) below demonstrated the number of seats for each Party. In 2017, the House of Commons included Conservative Party were 317 seats, 262 seats in Labour Party, Scottish National Party were 35 seats.
Table 2: General Election in 2017

This shows that the government can only be served by either the Conservative Party or the Labour Party because the government must achieve a majority of MPs which win in the General Election, however currently there is a minority Government. Even though the public take unkindly to both of two parties, the Party still evolves into the government.

Social background
-Men and Women
According to the MPs’ background, it is accessible to find out the women MPs are less than the men MPs. In table 3, from 650 total MPs, the women MPs are account for 208(32%). By contrast, there only 19 women MPs in 1979. It indicated the proportion of women MPs has been constantly increasing. Although women are more than half of the population, they still are under-represented in Britain Politics. Even if the number was lower than 50% which was not equal, it was better than 0% which was small but

-Ethnicity
“52 MPs were from non-white backgrounds, 8% of the total. Around 14% of the whole UK population are from a non-white background”, cleared Lukas and Cassie (2017). The diversity of MPs can build the relationship beyond the races, however, it is a minority.

-Education
One of the social backgrounds includes the education of MPs, like MPs who receive high-education to represent their constituencies in Labour Party, however, they are not the worker in social life. Rebecca and Tim (2017) demonstrated that “86% of MPs are university graduates, 23% went to Oxford or Cambridge, 29% went to non-Oxbridge Russell Group universities and 33% went to other universities in the UK. Approximately 11% of MPs hold a postgraduate qualification”. The roles of MPs are to represent their constituencies, make legislation and scrutiny. They need to have adequate knowledge to improve the