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Thus Speakers elected by a Liberal majority have continued to occupy their office though the House of Commons be elected in which a Conservative majority predominates , whilst , on the other hand , a Speaker elected by a Conservative House of Commons has held the Speakership with public approval when the House of Commons exhibits a Liberal majority and is guided by a Cabinet of Liberals . A or Mr. B shall be elected for five years Prime Minister of England . Prime Minister . If there be any one person in whose single hand the power of the State is placed , that one person is not the King but the chairman of the committee , known as the Prime Minister . No one , in the second place , can , I think , with reason dispute that , among the numerous plans for proportional representation thrust upon the attention of the public , some one , and probably several , would tend to make the House of Commons a more complete mirror of what is called the mind of the nation than the House is at present ; and this concession , it may with advantage be noted , does not involve the belief that under any system of popular government whatever , a representative body can be created which at every moment will absolutely and with complete accuracy reflect the opinions held by various classes of the people of England . What we might have obtained from Dr. Stubbs had he not surrendered to the Episcopate gifts which we hoped were dedicated to the University alone , is now left to conjecture . Under the referendum an elector may begin to find it possible to vote for or against a given law in accordance with his real view as to its merits or demerits , without being harassed through the knowledge that if he votes against a law which his conscience and his judgment condemns , he will also be voting that A , whom he deems the fittest man in England to be Prime Minister , shall cease to hold office , and that B , whom the elector happens to distrust , shall at once become Prime Minister . It would be simple folly to assert that Sir Walter Scott did not share the sentiment of Scottish nationalism ; yet the influence of Scott 's genius throughout Europe was favoured by , and in a sense was the fruit of , the union with England . House of Commons that the Speaker who presides over the debates of the House , though elected by a party , has for at least a century and more tried , and generally tried with success , to be the representative and guide of the whole House and not to be either the leader or the servant of a party . These may be brought under two heads ; they are most dearly and briefly exhibited if under each head is stated the argument of the Suffragist and the answer or reasoning in reply of the Anti-Suffragist . And no doubt the referendum , if ever established in England , may have the effect , which it already has in Switzerland , of making it possible that a minister or a Cabinet , supported on the whole by the electorate , shall retain office honestly and openly , though some proposal made by the Prime Minister and his colleagues and assented to by both Houses of Parliament is , through the referendum , condemned by the electorate . The Conservative Ministry of which he was the head , though admittedly defeated in the general election , did not resign until they suffered actual defeat in the newly-elected House of Commons .