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The Prime Minister and the Cabinet

 

Firstly, you might like to look at The Constitution Explained which is an excellent resource produced by the Constitution Society. Click here for the section on The Executive 

The rest of the page is divided into two sections.

Section One: The Cabinet with very useful links from the Institute for Government

Section Two: The Prime Minister with links to detailed information on recent Prime Ministers 

 

 

Section One: The Cabinet

The Cabinet [ with links to articles on “The Quad” and to a podcast on the Coalition] - Click Here

Core Executive and British Presidency: A Note - Click Here

Detailed article on Core Executive [From Democratic Audit 2017] - Click Here

For The UK’s Changing Democracy : Democratic Audit 2018 - Click Here

Individual Ministerial Responsibility and Collective Cabinet Responsibility - Click Here   February 2023

Cabinet Confidential [Documentary] - Click Here

Independent article reporting suggestion of “training for Ministers” - Click Here    June 2013

BBC Coverage of long detailed House of Lords Debate on PM, Cabinet and related institutions - Click Here

For links to information on all Government resignations/ dismissals since General Election 2017 - Click Here

The Cabinet Manual - Click Here

The Cabinet Manual [Article and video from UCL: scroll down a little way for the video] - Click Here

Mid -Term Report on the Coalition Government [Detailed Report from the Institute for Government] - Click Here

The Secret World of Whitehall  and The Great Offices of State – Click Here

[Two 3 part BBC series via You Tube]

Series of interviews with successive Cabinet Secretaries 1979 - Click Here   April 2014

You Tube coverage of Professor Anthony King and Sir Ivor Crewe discussing “The Blunders of Our Governments”. - Click Here

 

Further Information on the workings of the Cabinet System from the Institute for Government

The Cabinet  Click here

 Cabinet Office Click here

 Cabinet Committees Click here

 Cabinet Secretary   Click here

 The Cabinet Manual Click here

 The Ministerial Code Click here

 Ethics in Government Click here

 Ministerial Accountability    Click here

 Privileges Committee Investigation Click here

 the Delivery unit Click here

Related Issues

The Privy Council Click here

 Parliamentary Private Secretaries Click here

 Whips Click here

 Downing Street Chief of Staff Click here

 National Security Adviser Click here

SPADS Click here

 Parliamentary Private Secretaries Click here

 Permanent Secretaries Click here

 Civil Service Code  Click here

 MPs Code Click here

 Appointment of Prime Ministers: the role of the King Click here

for Scottish Independence [IfG explainer] Click here  relocate

for Rishi Sunak’s First Cabinet  [IfG explainer] Click here

 

Section Two: The Prime Minister

The Prime Minister - Click Here

Core Executive and British Presidency: A Note - Click Here

The Presidential Debate Click here

Further information on the Presidential  debate Click here

Detailed article on Core Executive [From Democratic Audit 2017] - Click Here

For The UK’s Changing Democracy : Democratic Audit 2018Click Here

 

UK Prime Ministers

Prime Ministers of the United Kingdom  [From Radio 4  - Click Here   March  2019

Lecture by Professor Vernon Bogdanor on Prime Ministers form Attlee to Blair - Click Here

Gresham’s College Politics Lectures [containing a series on British Prime Ministers] - Click Here

For Reflections : BBC Radio 4 :Peter Hennessey interviews long serving politicians about their careers [Blair, Major, Hague, Blunkett etc] - Click Here

Lectures on Thatcher and Blair - Click Here

Margaret Thatcher 1979-90

The New Right and Thatcherism – Click here

The Downing Street Years [a detailed 4 Part BBC documentary {now posted on YouTube} on the Premiership of Margaret Thatcher] - Click Here

For Thatcher: A Very British Revolution [5 part BBC 2 series beginning May 20th] - Click Here

Useful Resources on Margaret Thatcher from Tutor2U - Click Here

 

John Major 1990-97

For John Major [3 part series BBC] Click here

Tony Blair 1997- 2007

The Deal - Click Here

Tony Blair and Parliament [From the BBC] - Click Here

Tony Blair [Interviewed by Jeremy Paxman 2001] - Click Here

Andrew Rawnsley’s Three Part Assessment of the Premiership of Tony Blair [From The Guardian] - Click Here

The Rise and Fall of Tony Blair One - Click Here

The Rise and Fall of Tony Blair Two - Click Here

The Last Days of Tony Blair - Click Here

The Blair Years - Click Here

Tony Blair: The Inside Story - Click here  and here

 Tony Blair: PM or President? [From 2005], Click here

For The Rehabilitation of Tony Blair? [Guardian podcast: 23 minutes] - Click Here

Click here for Blair and Brown: The New Labour Revolution

Useful Resources on Tony Blair from Tutor2U - Click Here

Heroes or Villains? The Blair Government Reconsidered - Click Here    March 2019

 

Gordon Brown 2007- 2010

For Steve Richard’s Radio 4 Series on the Premiership of Gordon Brown - Click Here

LSE Podcast  by Anthony Seldon on the Premiership of Gordon Brown - Click Here

 

David Cameron 2010- 16

Vince Cable and the Tories: Collective Cabinet Responsibility?  [From Huffington Post] - Click Here   March 2014

The Formation of the Conservative-Liberal Democrat Coalition [from the BBC] - Click Here

How Coalition Government Works { Video from The Constitution Unit of London University] - Click Here

The Coalition: Voters , Parties and Institutions  [Report on first year of Coalition :Institute for Government/University of East Anglia] - Click Here

Page of links on David Cameron and Conservative Ideology - Click Here

            Cameron Uncovered [Andrew Rawnsley’s Dispatches Documentary from 2010] - Click Here

Steve Richards’ 3 part Radio 4 series on the Cameron Years is an exceptional resource for students and teachers alike - Click Here

Cameron at 10 : Antony Seldon discusses his book - Click Here

 

Theresa May 2016- 2019

The Conservative Party Leadership Election of 2016 - Click Here

Theresa Versus Boris [Drama Documentary] - Click Here

Steve Richards’  3 part Radio 4 Series; The Brexit Prime Minister - Click Here

Page of Links on Theresa May and The Conservative Party - Click Here

For Theresa May’s last big speech as PM - Click Here

For comparison of the administrations of John Major and Theresa May - Click Here

For  Theresa May  Click here  and here  and here

 

Boris Johnson 2016-19

For a page of links on Boris Johnson as Prime Minister Part One -Click Here  November 2020

For a page of links on Boris Johnson as Prime Minister Part Two -Click Here  September 2022

For a page of links on Boris Johnson on Ukraine -Click Here  September 2022

 

Elizabeth Truss

For a page of links on Elizabeth Truss as Prime Minister - Click Here  October 2022

Rishi Sunak

Rishi Sunak as Prime Minister - Click Here   December 2022

Click here  For BBC Three Part Series: State of Chaos [ Laura Kuenssberg]

Click here and here for BBC items related to the above series.

Keir Starmer

 

Brexit

Page of Links on UK EU Referendum - Click Here

Brexit:  A  Love Story [Mark Mardell Radio 4 series: 22 episodes so far] - Click Here

Brexit : A very British Coup - Click Here

For The Brexit Effect from the Institute for Government. The implications of Brexit for the UK system of government - Click Here    April 2019

For “What is the European Parliament and do the Elections matter? [Guardian] - Click Here

For The Brexit Effect from the Institute for Government. A detailed report on the implications of Brexit for the UK system of government - Click Here

For some Links on the UK European Parliament Election, the Peterborough By-election and the Conservative Party Leadership Election. This page will be updated

 regularly -Click Here