PM and cabinet

Question 1

examples of proposed legislation

Answer 1

Rwanda bill
smart meters bill (2017)

Question 2

2017 budget

Answer 2

proposed by Philip Hammond
- outlined increasing national living wages from £7.50 to £7.83

Question 3

2012 cons tax cuts

Answer 3

£150,000 a year from 50% to 45% of income

Question 4

2018 cons new credit plan

Answer 4

launched the universal credit benefits system to over a mil people to make claiming benefits easier.

Question 5

prerogative powers

Answer 5

deploy the army
grant honours
emergency powers to act decisively

Question 6

mays use of prerogative powers 2018

Answer 6

sent fighter jets to carry out airstrike on syria without parliaments approval
appointed new member to HOL (eric pickles)
london bridge terror attack + explosion on tube&raquo_space; she raised the threat level to critical

Question 7

IMR examples of resignations

Answer 7

amber rudd resigned 2018 after misleading home affairs selected committee on depts targets for deporting illegal immigrants.
liam fox resigned in 2011 as defence secretary after bringing a close friend to 18 foreign business trips despite him having no formal role.
michael fallon resigned as defence sec in 2017 after claims made against his sexual conduct.

Question 8

may fucking up IMR 2011

Answer 8

may didn’t resign over weakened border checks which allowed foreign criminals + suspected terrorists into country.
instead she blamed brodie clark head of UK border force at time

Question 9

CMR examples of success

Answer 9

2018 bojo resigned as foreign sec after disagreeing with chequers deal for leaving EU
lib dems sided with cons over mansion tax, ensure a strong coalition govt

Question 10

CMR failures

Answer 10

Blairs cabinet were not asked for approval over invasion of iraq until three days before invasion + claim they were forced to agree.

Question 11

CMR relaxation

Answer 11

cameron relaxed CMR over the brexit campaigns

Question 12

mays response to international crises

Answer 12

2017 chaired a cobra committee meeting following the attempted terrorist attack on the underground

Question 13

good examples of international leadership from PMs

Answer 13

may visited over 30 countries
cameron attended COP21 to negotiate paris agreement in 2015

Question 14

examples of patronage to reshuffle cabinet

Answer 14

2018 may replaced justine greening as education sec w/ damian hinds

Question 15

what is the PM in theory

Answer 15

primus inter pares (first among equals)

Question 16

electorates limit on PMs powers

Answer 16

cameron elected after brown caught calling a voter a bigoted woman

Question 17

parties limits on PMs power

Answer 17

thatcher stepped down after she was challenged to do so by members of her own party in 1990

Question 18

cabinets dealing with emergencies

Answer 18

COBR meeting after the russian poisoning of Sergie skripal

Question 19

who argues the PM is becoming more presidential

Answer 19

michael foley in ‘the british presidency’ (2000)

Question 20

examples in favour of foleys argument

Answer 20

blairs “sofa cabinet”
browns “kitchen cabinet”

Question 21

examples of cabinet govt

Answer 21

camerons coalition

Question 22

what wets did thactcher sack?

Answer 22

francis pym, foreign sec in ‘83