The executive points:

Question 1

Evaluate the view that ministers are no longer held to account by the conventions of ministerial responsibility*

Answer 1

1. Ministers disagreeing and not resigning
2. Ministers seem to blame others and deflect bad publicity.
3. Conventions and not binding-inconsistently applied, prime ministers enforced when it suits the,
4. But cabinet often is held to account.
5. Ministers take responsibility where they are clearly personally at fault.
6. Flexible convention for politics beyond the government (Brexit)