Prime Ministerial powers
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- Created on: 04-04-16 17:09
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- Prime ministerial powers
- Patronage
- Assists Power
- Pm can appoint diplomats, life peers, senior civil servants
- Appoint cabinet ministers
- conservatives can appoint who they like
- Labour must keep the shadow cabinet as their cabinet between 1981 to 2011
- Can put members of their end of the party into powerful positions
- Restraints on power
- Has to only approve a short list of senior judges
- Pm's cant get rid of powerful members in the party
- Have to include member from both end of the party in a cabinet
- A reshuffle can be very dangerous to the PM
- Thatcher built up enemies on the backbenches
- Corbyn can't get enough people in his Shadow cabinet
- Assists Power
- Authority in the cabinet system
- Assists power
- Blair allowed ministers to dictate their own policy but had meetings with them before hand
- Can for their views across
- Thatcher started meeting with her opinion
- Organize structure of government (merge and change departments)
- Blair's changes to Cabinet office
- Thatchers 2 teir local government
- Appoint cabinet committees and senior civil servants
- Manages the Agenda
- Chair cabinet meetings
- Assists power
- Party Leadership
- Assists power
- A majority strengthens power
- Blair had 418 seats in 1997
- Unlikely to face a leader ship challenge after a victory
- Can re-brand the party
- A majority strengthens power
- Restrains power
- Pm can loose confidence and be ousted
- leaders can face a leadership challenge up to once a year
- Popular Pm does not mean popular policy
- Poll Tax
- Iraq war
- Assists power
- Public Standing
- Assists power
- can form links to US
- PM is communicator in chief for the government
- Opinion polls show opinion on PM not party
- Major had high opinion polls after Gulf war
- Blair had the heighest and lowest polls of any post war PM
- Restrains power
- Thatcher was always divided in polls
- Restrains power
- Restrains power
- Thatcher was always divided in polls
- Assists power
- Policy making Role
- Assists power
- Most important person in a crisis
- Can control power given to minister
- Blair's Kosovo involvement
- Major's cones hotline + national lottery + citizens charter
- Can keep policy from opposition
- Restrains power
- No department of their own
- They're most responsible
- Major and Blair both had little success domestically
- Blair's efforts to improve public health failed - 40% more money, 14% more productive
- Assists power
- Prime minister office
- Restrains power
- Spin Doctors gave PMs bad press
- Alister Campbell didn't allow good coverage over Blair
- Andy Coulson was previous sin doctor for Cameron = got fired to hacking scandal + not very vocal
- Spin Doctors gave PMs bad press
- Assists power
- 190 staff (civil servants, political advisors)
- alternative source of advice from ministers
- Coordinates power across whitehall
- Includes
- Policy and Government unit
- Communicators and strategy unit
- Government and public relations unit
- Can give bad press so good press looks a lot better
- Under Blair PMs office gained lots of power
- Restrains power
- Patronage
- Assists power
- Blair allowed ministers to dictate their own policy but had meetings with them before hand
- Can for their views across
- Thatcher started meeting with her opinion
- Organize structure of government (merge and change departments)
- Blair's changes to Cabinet office
- Thatchers 2 teir local government
- Appoint cabinet committees and senior civil servants
- Manages the Agenda
- Chair cabinet meetings
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