To what extent can the PM control the Cabinet?
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- To what extent can the PM control the Cabinet
- PM can control cabinet and undermine/circumvent Cabinet
- Kitchen cabinets
- Harold Wilson
- Patronage
- Who is in/out of the Cabinet
- Bilaterals
- Meetings between PM
- Stopped by Gordon Brown
- Media
- By passing the Cabinet
- As Tony Blair did with the Millennium Dome
- Sofa Goverment
- Tony Blair
- Resolving issues informally
- Kitchen cabinets
- PM and Cabinet are equal + work together
- PM remains Primus Inter Pares (first among equals)
- The doctrine of collective responsbility
- All Cabinet members have to support Government decisions
- The Cabinet can turn against PM and overthrow them
- As with Thatcher
- Individual responsbility
- Cabinet policies have to be agreed by all Cabinet members
- PM can control cabinet and undermine/circumvent Cabinet
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