AQA UK Politics: Prime Minister Questions and Answers
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AQA UK Politics: Prime Minister
AQA UK Politics: Prime Minister
Name 4 of the prime ministers roles - Answer-1. Chooses all ministers
2. Makes sure that the cabinet remains popular
3. Manages the cabinet
4. Sets the agenda for government
How did David Cameron try to keep his cabinet popular? (2) - Answer-1. Removed Carol...
how did david cameron try to keep his cabinet popu
how did blair manage his home office
what agenda did cameron have in 2015
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AQA UK Politics: Prime Minister
Name 4 of the prime ministers roles - Answer-1. Chooses all ministers
2. Makes sure that the cabinet remains popular
3. Manages the cabinet
4. Sets the agenda for government
How did David Cameron try to keep his cabinet popular? (2) - Answer-1. Removed
Caroline Spelman (environment secretary) after a consultation on selling government
owned woodlands led to an angry public reaction
2. Removed Michael Gove after he was confrontational with teachers
What does the prime minster do to manage the cabinet? (2) - Answer-Create cabinet
committees, hire and fire ministers
How did Blair manage his home office? - Answer-Blair split the home office into the
new home office and justice departments, as the old home office had failures over
deporting foreign prisoners and monitoring immigration
What agenda did Cameron have in 2015? - Answer-Promised a referendum on EU
membership and the renegotiation of Britain's role in the EU in response to concerns
in the Conservative party
What is a prime ministers power dependent on? - Answer-The holder of the office
Give 4 limitations of the prime minister - Answer-Cabinet, party, media, events
How does the prime minister appear to be presidential? (3) - Answer-Spatial
leadership, media focus, personalised leadership
What is spatial leadership? - Answer-The prime minister relies more on their own
inner circle of advisors, rather than the cabinet
What was the name of Cameron's inner circle? and who was in it? - Answer-The
Quad- Cameron, Clegg, Osbourne, Alexander
What does personalised leadership mean? - Answer-A PM has a personal vision that
is imposed on policies
What was Foley's view on prime ministers becoming too presidential? - Answer-
British prime ministers have become defacto British presidents, especially Blair. This
is because the media focuses on the prime minister and makes them appear to be
more presidential than a party leader
Give two examples of a prime minister taking actions to make sure that the
Government remains popular: - Answer-Cameron used his powers of patronage to
fire Caroline Spelman as Environment Secretary, after a consultation on selling
Government owned woodlands led to an angry public reaction and when he removed
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