picking allies

• Adopted by Thatcher after 1982 and Blair also
• Ensures unity and blster's the PM's power BUT lacks critical voices who can improve decision-making
• 2022 - Truss only kept one MP who continually backed Sunak, Michael Ellis
• 2022 - Heselnite said Truss picked “cronies off backbenchers”
• 2019 - new PM Johnson sacks over half the cabinet, replacing the team with Brexiteers and right wingers
• 2010 - Cameron appointed his main political ally, Osborne, as Chancellor