the prime minster and the cabinet

Question 1

describe individual competence and experience

Answer 1

important
-running large gov department is difficult so PM has to be confident they will run it well=choose people knowledge and experience =Jeremy Hunt =chancellor under Truss + Sunak = served in cabinet for 10 yrs seen as safe pair hands after Kwarteng
Ben Wallace sunak johnson and truss =soilder

not important
not always case truss =Kwarteng =only in cabinet for two yrs similarly cleverly

Question 2

stamp authority

Answer 2

• replacing Johnson cabinet =lizz truss removed raab dorris and priti patel
  rishi brought back suella despite liz truss firing her for breaching ministerial code a few weeks before brought bake gove as levelling up secretary
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Question 3

loyalty and political reliability

Answer 3

yes
seek to reward loyalty of key allies and know they will follow Collective ministerial responsibility and wont question party disloyalty = Johnson sacked NI sec Julian smith replaced him brandon smith despite his competency as Julian Smith spoke out against no deal brexit
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Question 4

ideological balance

Answer 4

-for unity they select balanced cabinet= keeping people who oppose you is effective as they cant publicly challenge you =May had cabinet with Brexiteers and remainers Blair had brownites and browns had blairites =balance
offer failed opponents in leadership elections high roles to ensure unity =Boris hancock raab
however PM usually place more importance on loyalty = safer = liz Truss put emphasis loyalty didn’t offer Sunak a place in cabinet

Question 5

representative and diversity

Answer 5

PM want it to be rep of popualtion
Blair appointed Beckett as first female Foreign secretary
Rishi Sunaks cabinet has 4 ethnic minorties

however current cabinet just 7 are women and under Cameron unrepresentaive =eton

Question 6

how PM manages cabinet

Answer 6

-uses power patronage to promote allies maintain auothrity

Question 7

for PM have become more presidential

Answer 7

Often behaves like head state in emergancies =Tony Blair drove through foreign policy