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Does The Prime Minister Have Presidential Powers?
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Does The Prime Minister Have Presidential Powers? Margaret Thatcher was the first Prime Minister who could be said to have had Presidential powers. Her style of government was very controlling, in fact the number, duration and documentation of Cabinet meetings reduced dramatically during her period of leadership. She followed policies that her Cabinet did not agree on, and this resulted in her being ousted after over a decade at the top. It can be argued that Tony Blair is very similar to Thatcher in this manner. It is undoubtable that the power of the Prime Minister has increased at the expense of the Cabinet. This is the result of two main causes: the party machinery has become centralised under the control of the Prime Minister; and secondly, the civil service is now too large to remain under the control of the Cabinet, and it too has become centralised with the...
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