What is the role of pressure group in the democracy of UK?

Answer 1

Pressure groups are organisations of people who all believe in the same cause. Whether it is a sectional group, campaigning for personal gain, or a cause group, working towards a specific cause, they all possess strongly held views and wish to influence some aspect of society. Pressure groups try to gain public support and sympathy for their cause in the hope that they will influence people's decisions or lives, depending on the issue they are focusing on, usually this is done via the media and especially nowadays, the internet. Other than this, the most common methods they tend to use involve carrying out petitions, distributing leaflets or information, and creating newspaper articles or adverts. Some Pressure groups employ professional lobbyists to speak to MP's on the groups behalf. Often pressure groups employ the heavy responsibility of speaking out for and representing the less privileged in society, they listen to people's problems and try to persuade the Government to solve these issues on their behalf

Answer 2

Trade Unions, Greenpeace, NUT etc...