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What factors do Prime Ministers take into account when choosing their cabinets?  

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a) What is Cabinet Government? 5 Cabinet Government is the view that cabinet have the main power throughout the whole of government, rather than all the members and MPs within the government. It means that all the major issues can be debated, as it will concern all sectors, and the topic maybe controversial. Cabinet allows policies to be discussed before coming to a collective agreement. b) What factors do Prime Ministers take into account when choosing their cabinets? 15 I think the most important attribute that a cabinet minister should have a variety of support. He should have this from three main sets of people. The first is from politicians and backbenchers. If a cabinet member is respected throughout his or her party and has the views of many MPs, it would be a good idea to have them in your cabinet. An excellent example of this is John Prescott, who is Deputy...

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