Ministers and their civil servants (continued and goes with the handout)

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cabinet discussion- the blair years
if you were outside Tony Blair's circle of close advisors, you ver not kept in the loop. Robin Cook- tony's blair's secretary reseigned bc of decision to go to law with Iraq said 'Tony does not regard ca
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cabinet as a place for decision'
Tony blair undermined cabinet discussions
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Recent failure to agree: Chequers Brexit policy July 2018- Davis and Johnson
their resignations upheld convention of public unanimity, in doing this they inflict political blow on Teresa May
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Collective Responsibility: Strand 2- Confidentiality Rule
ministers will actually tell journalists things, will be written as 'sources close to the government'
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Theresa May and Squabbling Ministers
Hammond was deeply unpopular, other members of cabinet leaked things about him e.g. said that he was unsure of how women could be train drivers, there were leakers to try to undermine him.
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Confidentiality in the courts
courts' role in supporting convention is examined in case AG v Jonathan Cape [1976]. Diaries from cabinet in mid 1960s would have been published, cabinet tried to get an injunction to stop this, there were 2 strands to attorney general's argument
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1. collective ministerial responsibility
2. also the law of confidentiality e.g. talking to a doctor, bank
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he looses on point one; convention is not decided by courts,
in 2nd reason: court says there are two public interests: 1- cab ministers being able to talk freely amongst themselves. 2- transparency of government, public are entitled to know what the elected government do. Public interest gets stronger further
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the further away from the time
therefore court says that injuction is not granted, public interest in learning cabinet discussions outweighs confidentiality
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Radcliffe Report 1976 Cmnd 6386
publication can happen after 15 years, but once a minister has left, what authority is held over them?
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Individual Responsibility: ministerial code (2016) cabinet office
headline lays out how they are expected to behave from rule no.1
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'Honourable resignations'- some examples
Lord Carrington was foreign secretary- resigned since his department failed to see the threat of Argentina in Falkland Isles invasion. it is not thought that it is his own fault, he resigned for the incompetence of others
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