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The Cabinet of the United Kingdom is the senior decision-making body of
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. A committee of the
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, it is chaired by the
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and its members include secretaries of state and other senior
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. The
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says that the business of the Cabinet (and cabinet committees) is mainly questions of major issues of policy, questions of critical importance to the public and questions on which there is an unresolved argument between departments.


History

Until at least the 16th century, individual officers of state had separate property, powers and responsibilities granted with their separate offices by royal command, and the Crown and the
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constituted the only co-ordinating authorities. In England, phrases such as "cabinet counsel", meaning advice given in private, in a
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in the sense of a small room, to the monarch, occur from the late 16th century, and, given the non-standardised spelling of the day, it is often hard to distinguish whether "council" or "counsel" is meant.
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Francis Bacon Francis Bacon, 1st Viscount St Alban (; 22 January 1561 – 9 April 1626), also known as Lord Verulam, was an English philosopher and statesman who served as Attorney General and Lord Chancellor of England. Bacon led the advancement of both ...
in his ''
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'' (1605) with the first use of "Cabinet council", where it is described as a foreign habit, of which he disapproves: "For which inconveniences, the doctrine of Italy, and practice of France, in some kings' times, hath introduced cabinet counsels; a remedy worse than the disease".
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began a formal "Cabinet Council" from his accession in 1625, as his Privy Council, or "private council", and the first recorded use of "cabinet" by itself for such a body comes from 1644, and is again hostile and associates the term with dubious foreign practices. There were ministries in England led by the
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, which was a personage leading the English government for the monarch. Despite primary accountability to the monarch, these ministries, having a group of ministers running the country, served as a predecessor of the modern perspective of cabinet. After the ministry of Lord Stanhope and Lord Sunderland collapsed,
Sir Robert Walpole Robert Walpole, 1st Earl of Orford, (26 August 1676 – 18 March 1745; known between 1725 and 1742 as Sir Robert Walpole) was a British statesman and Whig politician who, as First Lord of the Treasury, Chancellor of the Exchequer, and Leade ...
rose to power as
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. Since the reign of King George I the Cabinet has been the principal executive group of British government. Both he and
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made use of the system, as both were not native
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speakers, unfamiliar with
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politics, and thus relied heavily on selected groups of advisers. The term "minister" came into being since the royal officers "ministered" to the sovereign. The name and institution have been adopted by most English-speaking countries, and the
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or similar bodies of other countries are often informally referred to as cabinets.The modern Cabinet system was set up by Prime Minister
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during his premiership, 1916–1922, with a
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and Secretariat, committee structures, unpublished minutes, and a clearer relationship with departmental Cabinet ministers. The formal procedures, practice and proceedings of the Cabinet remain largely unpublished. This development grew out of the exigencies of the
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, where faster and better co-ordinated decisions across Government were seen as a crucial part of the war effort. Decisions on mass
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, co-ordination worldwide with other governments across international theatres, and armament production tied into a general war strategy that could be developed and overseen from an inner "
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". The country went through successive crises after the war: the 1926 United Kingdom general strike; the
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of 1929–32; the rise of
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after 1917 and
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after 1922; the
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1936 onwards; the invasion of
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1936; the League of Nations Crisis which followed; and the re-armament and resurgence of Germany from 1933, leading into another World War. All these demanded a highly organised and centralised Government centred on the Cabinet.


Composition

The
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decides the membership and attendees of the Cabinet. The total number of Cabinet ministers who are entitled to a salary is
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at 21, plus the
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, who is paid separately. Some ministers may be designated as also attending Cabinet, like the
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, as "...it has been considered more appropriate, in recent times at any rate, that the independence and detachment of his office should not be blurred by his inclusion in a political body – that is to say the Cabinet – which may have to make policy decisions upon the basis of the legal advice the law officers have given." The Cabinet is a committee of the
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(though this interpretation has been challenged) and, as such, all Cabinet ministers must be privy counsellors. Members of the Cabinet are by convention chosen from members of the two houses of Parliament, as the Peel convention dictates that ministers may only be recruited from the House of Commons or the
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, although this convention has been broken in the past for short periods. Patrick Gordon Walker is perhaps the most notable exception: he was appointed to the Cabinet despite losing his seat in the 1964 election, and resigned from Cabinet after running and losing in a by-election in January 1965. Sometimes, when a minister from neither House is appointed, they have been granted a customary peerage. The Cabinet is now made up almost entirely of members of the
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.
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from the Cabinet Secretariat and special advisors (on the approval of the prime minister) can also attend Cabinet meetings, but neither take part in discussions. It has been suggested that the modern Cabinet is too large, including by former Cabinet Secretary Mark Sedwill and scholars Robert Hazell and
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. Robert Hazell has suggested merging the offices of
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, Scotland and
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into one Secretary of State for the Union, in a department into which Rodney Brazier has suggested adding a minister of state for England with responsibility for English local government.


Meetings of the cabinet

Most cabinet meetings take place in the Cabinet Room of
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; however, they have been known to take place in other places. Despite the custom of meeting on a Thursday, after the appointment of
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, the meeting day was switched to Tuesday. However, when David Cameron became prime minister, he held his cabinet meetings on Thursdays again. Upon Theresa May's tenure, she switched the cabinet meetings back to Tuesday. The length of meetings varies according to the style of the prime minister and political conditions, but modern meetings can be as short as 30 minutes. Ministers are bound by the constitutional convention of
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.


Importance

Cabinet ministers, like all ministers, are appointed and may be dismissed by the
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without notice or reason, on the advice of the
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. The allocation and transfer of responsibilities between ministers and departments is also generally at the prime minister's discretion. The Cabinet has always been led by the prime minister, whose originally unpaid office as such was traditionally described as merely ''
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'' (first among equals), but today the prime minister is the preeminent
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, with the effective power to appoint and dismiss Cabinet ministers and to control the Cabinet's agenda. The extent to which the Government is collegial varies with political conditions and individual personalities. The Cabinet is the ultimate decision-making body of the
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within the Westminster system of government in traditional constitutional theory. This interpretation was originally put across in the work of 19th century constitutionalists such as
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, who described the Cabinet as the "efficient secret" of the British political system in his book '' The English Constitution''. The political and decision-making authority of the cabinet has been gradually reduced over the last several decades, with some claiming its role has been usurped by a "prime ministerial" government. In the modern political era, the prime minister releases information concerning the
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in the form of a list detailing the seniority of all Cabinet ministers. The centralisation of the Cabinet in the early 20th century enhanced the power of the prime minister, who moved from being the ''
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'' of the Asquith Cabinets of 1906 onwards, to the dominating figures of
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,
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and
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. The
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claims that the reduced number of full Cabinet meetings signifies "that the role of Cabinet as a formal decision-making body has been in decline since the war." This view has been contradicted by
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, a British constitutional expert, who claims that "the Cabinet has, in fact, been strengthened by the decline in full meetings, as it allows more matters to be transferred to cabinet committees. Thus, business is done more efficiently." Most prime ministers have had a so-called "kitchen cabinet" consisting of their own trusted advisers who may be Cabinet members but are often non-cabinet trusted personal advisers on their own staff. In recent governments, generally from
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, and especially in that of
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, it has been reported that many or even all major decisions have been made before cabinet meetings. This suggestion has been made by former ministers including
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and Chris Smith, in the media, and was made clear in the Butler Review, where Blair's style of "sofa government" was censured. The combined effect of the prime minister's ability to control Cabinet by circumventing effective discussion in Cabinet and the executive's ability to dominate parliamentary proceedings places the British prime minister in a position of great power, that has been likened to an
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(a phrase coined by Quinton Hogg, Lord Hailsham in 1976). The relative inability of Parliament to hold the Government of the day to account is often cited by the UK media as a justification for the vigour with which they question and challenge the Government. The classic view of Cabinet Government was laid out by
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in '' The English Constitution'' (1867) in which he described the prime minister as the ''primus‐inter‐pares'' ("
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"). The view was questioned by
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in ''The Myths of Cabinet Government'' (1972) and by
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. They were both members of the Labour governments of the 1960s and thought that the position of the prime minister had acquired more power so that prime ministerial government was a more apt description. Crossman stated that the increase in the power of the prime minister resulted from power of centralised political parties, the development of a unified civil service, and the growth of the prime minister's private office and Cabinet secretariat. Graham Allen (a government whip during
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's first government) makes the case in ''The Last Prime Minister: Being Honest About the UK Presidency'' (2003) that the office of prime minister has presidential powers, as did Michael Foley in ''The British Presidency'' (2000). However the power that a prime minister has over his or her cabinet colleagues is directly proportional to the amount of support that they have with their political parties and this is often related to whether the party considers them to be an electoral asset or liability. Also when a party is divided into factions a prime minister may be forced to include other powerful party members in the Cabinet for party political cohesion. The prime minister's personal power is also curtailed if their party is in a power-sharing arrangement, or a formal coalition with another party (as happened in the coalition government of 2010 to 2015).


Cabinet

the makeup of the Cabinet (in order of
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) was:; ; ; ;


List of Cabinets since 1900

* Cabinets of the Unionist government, 1895–1905 * Cabinets of Henry Campbell-Bannerman's ministry, 1905–1908 * Cabinets of H. H. Asquith's ministries, 1908–1915 * Cabinets of H. H. Asquith's coalition ministry, 1915–1916 * Cabinets of David Lloyd George's ministries, 1916–1922 * Cabinets of Bonar Law's ministry, 1922–1923 * Cabinets of Stanley Baldwin's first ministry, 1923–1924 * Cabinets of Ramsay MacDonald's first ministry, 1924 * Cabinets of Stanley Baldwin's second ministry, 1924–1929 * Cabinets of Ramsay MacDonald's second ministry, 1929–1931 * Cabinets of Ramsay MacDonald's first national government, 1931 * Cabinets of Ramsay MacDonald's second national government, 1931–1935 * Cabinets of Stanley Baldwin's national government, 1935–1937 * Cabinets of Neville Chamberlain's national government, 1937–1939 * Cabinets of Neville Chamberlain's war ministry, 1939–1940 * Cabinets of Winston Churchill's war ministry, 1940–1945 * Cabinets of Winston Churchill's caretaker ministry, 1945 * Cabinets of Clement Attlee's first ministry, 1945–1950 * Cabinets of Clement Attlee's second ministry, 1950–1951 * Cabinets of Winston Churchill's third ministry, 1951–1955 * Cabinets of Anthony Eden's ministry, 1955–1957 * Cabinets of Harold Macmillan's first ministry, 1957–1959 * Cabinets of Harold Macmillan's second ministry, 1959–1963 * Cabinets of Alec Douglas-Home's ministry, 1963–1964 * Cabinets of Harold Wilson's first and second ministries, 1964–1970 * Cabinets of Ted Heath's ministry, 1970–1974 * Cabinets of Harold Wilson's third and fourth ministries, 1974–1976 * Cabinets of James Callaghan's ministry, 1976–1979 * Cabinets of Margaret Thatcher's first ministry, 1979–1983 * Cabinets of Margaret Thatcher's second ministry, 1983–1987 * Cabinets of Margaret Thatcher's third ministry, 1987–1990 * Cabinets of John Major's first ministry, 1990–1992 * Cabinets of John Major's second ministry, 1992–1997 * Cabinets of Tony Blair's first ministry, 1997–2001 * Cabinets of Tony Blair's second ministry, 2001–2005 * Cabinets of Tony Blair's third ministry, 2005–2007 * Cabinets of Gordon Brown's ministry, 2007–2010 * Cabinets of the Cameron–Clegg coalition, 2010–2015 * Cabinets of David Cameron's second ministry, 2015–2016 * Cabinets of Theresa May's first ministry, 2016–2017 * Cabinets of Theresa May's second ministry, 2017–2019 * Cabinets of Boris Johnson's first ministry, 2019 * Cabinets of Boris Johnson's second ministry, 2019–2022 * Cabinets of Liz Truss's ministry, September 2022 – October 2022 * Cabinets of Rishi Sunak's ministry, October 2022 –


See also

*
British Government frontbench The Government frontbench in the Parliament of the United Kingdom, also known as the Treasury Bench, consists of the Cabinet and all other ministers. Parliamentary opposition to the Government frontbench is provided by the Official Opposition f ...
*
United Kingdom cabinet committee The British government is directed by the Cabinet, a group of senior government ministers led by the Prime Minister. Most of the day-to-day work of the Cabinet is carried out by Cabinet committees, rather than by the full Cabinet. Each committee ...
* Official Opposition Shadow Cabinet


Notes


References


External links


Cabinet Office – Main Site

Cabinet Office – UK Executive

Cabinet Office – List of Cabinet Ministers

Cabinet Papers, 1915–1981 (National Archives)

BBC news website – The Cabinet
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