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What does the authority of a PM depend on?

The circumstances in which they hold office

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What economic policy did Cameron succeed in introducing in 2010-2015?

Austerity measures

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What social policy did Cameron pass despite conservative backlash ?

Same sex marriage legislation

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What did Cameron have to allow in 2011?

A referendum on the electoral system

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What did Cameron fail to persuade parliament to support in 2013?

Support bombing President Assad

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What did the EU referendum leading to Camerons resignation demonstrate ?

How a prime minister cannot always control events

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What did the conservative and Lib Dem government provide Cameron with?

A stable government and the ability to fulfil mostly of his manifesto commitments

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What did Cameron have to give up in the coalition?

5 members of the cabinet

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What was the consequence of May losing her majority?

Threw her government into disarray and undermined her ability to provide the firm leadership she had promised

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What does a presidential prime minister suggest?

  • Increasingly dominant in cabinet

  • Media has become obsessed with their characters and personal charisma allowing them dominate decisions

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What did PM Harold Wilson Utilise ?

TV to reach out to public and Media opportunities such as photos

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What has provided PM’s with an opportunity to act presidential in manner?

The media

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What did the media focus on during the Falklands war and the miners strikes ?

Thatcher- not her cabinet

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What was Blairs rhetoric seen as?

Highly personal, less ideologically driven

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What were Blair’s high profile personal interventions crucial in?

Driving forward the Northern Ireland Peace Processes

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who did Blair push the case for the Iraq war to in 2003?

The public

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What becomes irrelevant according to the presidential model?

The cabinet

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Why can the PM afford to ignore the cabinet?

They have their own popular mandate directly from the people from public acclamation

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How did Blair further the presidential atmosphere in Downing Street ?

By closely modelling it to the white House

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What was the consequence of Blair closely modelling the white House ?

  • Chief of Staff established

  • Prime Ministers Private Office and Cabinet Office enlarged to provide greater control from the centre and a more joined up gov

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What did Cameron associate key decisions with in the media?

Himself not his government

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What is an example of Cameron doing this?

  • Personally putting forward case for gay marriage

  • 2014 and 2016 referendums advocated to “stay together” and “remain”

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How did the 2010,15 and 17 using TV debates further make UK politics more presidential?

Put the leadership qualities of he candidates on public display

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What does a British PM not possess?

Their own electoral mandate

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What does the authority of the PM depend on?

Having a parliamentary majority and retaining the support of the party

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Why was Callaghan forced to call a general election in 1979?

He lost a vote of no confidence

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Why did Thatcher resign in 1990?

Lost support of her cabinet

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Why was May unable to be presidential in nature?

failed to engage with public in 2017 general election and lost her parliamentary majority

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What may happen if a PM acts overly Presidential ?

They may antagonise parliament and lose their support

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