cabinet

• the home secretary currently is James Cleverly
• the foreign secretary is currently David Cameron
• the current chancellor of the exchequer is Jeremy Hunt
• the cabinet is comprised of cabinet ministers
• cabinet ministers have to follow the ministerial code
• The cabinet can challenge the government through resignations
• A great example of Cabinet resignation is Geoffery Howe, who accused Thatcher of sabotaging her own government, "walking up to the crease only to find that your teams bats have been broken before the game by the team captain"
• Ian Duncan Smith resigned due to cuts to disability benefits
• cabinet ministers have to obey the ministerial code
• Zak Goldsmith resigned - collective responsibility - resigned after government put fourth runway at heathrow
• the cabinet mannual 2010 - david cameron- outlines how the cabinet is run
• Sir Thomas Dugdale - resigned due to crichel down affair - government failed to return land to family after the war
• ministers receive advice from apolitical civil servants
• cabinet is bound by collective responsibility once a decision is made
• Blair's more informal cabinet was called the "sofa government"
• the cabinet office is a civil service department that organises the cabinet