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Does Britain Have Prime Ministerial Government or a Cabinet Government?
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Does Britain Have Prime Ministerial Government or a Cabinet Government? A Cabinet Government is referred to a government in which most executive power is invested in a cabinet, in which members often act with collective responsibility and so must support all Governmental decisions made in Cabinet, even if they do not privately agree with them. A Prime Ministerial Government on the other hand, is a government where the prime minister is dominant in terms of the executive and is able to bypass the cabinet. There has been a debate in the British political system about whether Britain has a Prime Ministerial or Cabinet government since the early 1960s. This was mainly because of two events that occurred in 1962. Firstly, the Prime Minister Harold Macmillan dismissed one third of his Cabinet which resulted in the unpopularity of the government. Secondly, Richard Crossman suggested that the term Prime Ministerial government was more appropriate...
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