The U.K. and U.S. have a lot in common. But when it comes to politics, Brits do things very differently from their American friends.
While the respective campaigns might focus on certain universal issues that voters care about, from housing and health care to law and order and the economy, the character of the election races can be very different.
In the U.K., the time frame between a prime minister calling a general election to the actual vote is just six weeks. American readers might, very reasonably, read that and weep. "The hugeness of the election in the U.S. is a function of the massive amounts of money at play to some degree. You do have to have these long periods of fundraising alongside campaigning and we just have completely different rules and structures around that."Money is certainly one of biggest differences between U.K. general elections and U.S. presidential elections.
Religion, in general, is kept separate from politics in the U.K., a multifaith country but also one in which religious belief is declining, particularly among younger generations. Just under half of Britons surveyed in 2022 said they believed in God — down from three-quarters in 1981, according toWhile it's common to hear U.S. politicians proclaim "God bless America," jaws would drop in the U.K. if a British politician made such an expression of faith in a political speech.
An aversion to mixing politics and personal belief still runs deep in British public life, Dan Stevens, professor of politics at Exeter University, told CNBC, unlike in the U.S.
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