Powers of PM and Cabinet and the relationship between them
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- Created on: 09-04-18 10:19
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The Power Of PM and Executive
- PM has traditional authority and perogative powers, Blair declaring war
- PM is leader of party with majority, May is leader of conservatives
- PM has trust of the people, Tories managed to get a majority in the commons in 2015
- Theresa May called an early general election. clear power of PM
- PM sets agenda of Cabinet, Blair ignoring cabinets opinion on the building of the O2
- PM negotiates foreign policy, for example negotiating Brexit from May
- Cabinet organised presentation of policy and comes up with policy, Tory cabinet coming up with austerity in 2010
- Cabinet can push out a Prime Minister if they dont like them, Margaret Thatcher in 1990
- Cabinet can also overule PM if it wishes, Cameron forced to call EU referendum in 2016 by Boris, part of tory cabinet
- Cabinet also organises the governments legislative agenda, Cabinet organised Lords reform of 1999
- Cabinet often approves foreign policy as well, David Davies…
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