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What is meant by the term 'patronage' as used in passage 2?What do the passages suggest about the premiership of Margaret Thatcher?
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(1) What is meant by the term 'patronage' as used in passage 2? (2) What do the passages suggest about the premiership of Margaret Thatcher? (3) From the information in passage 3, and from your own knowledge, how has Tony Blair developed the office of prime minister? (4) Is it true to say that the UK now features prime ministerial rather than Cabinet government? (1) Patronage is an important part of the prime minister's job. The new PM has the constitutional right to choose the members of their cabinet and to make all other ministerial appointments. It is the job of the party whips to recommend any potential talent to the PM. The prime minister can also create peers, appoint staff in Downing and appoint top civil servants as well as chairs of nationalised industries. The PM also has the main responsibility to recommend for knighthoods etc. to the queen. In the...
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