Cabinet is important

• every cabinet is composed of the most powerful and influential members or political parties and a PM would be be unwise to ignore them
• Boris Johnson - resigned in 2022 when 6 of his cabinet members resigned too
• Margret thatcher lost power when she felt that she was greater than the cabinet while James Callaghan and john major understood the importance eof trying top maintain cabinet support
• The 2010-2015 Coalition govt strengthened the role of the cabinet because there was need for 2 parties to negotiate policy- as a result, cabinet meetings where held more regularly.