To what extent can the PM control the Cabinet?
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- To what extent can the Prime Minister control the Cabinet?
- Can control the Cabinet
- They have patronage powers which promote loyalty
- They has control over the agendas for Cabinet meetings
- They many manipulate the outcome through bilaterals with ministers (sofa politics- Blair used this.
- They are considered to chief policy maker
- They now have considerable sources of their own advice
- Limits to power
- They remain only primus inter pares- first among equals
- They can be challenged by a dissident majority (Major)
- They can be removed ultimately from power, as with Thatcher and arguably Blair
- Ministers in charge of large departments, such as the Treasury, have their own power bases- (Blair and Brown) and (Osborne, Cameron and Alexander)
- Special problems may arise under Coalition government
- Factors which can enhance power
- The extent to which the Cabinet ideologically united
- The personal popularity of the PM
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