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The Prime Minister lives in and with and by the Cabinet. The Cabinet is a constitutional principle (or a principle of government) as well as an institution. It represents the Cabinet as Council, the Cabinet system (of committees and sub-committees and meetings) and the Cabinet as ‘The Colleagues’ (Cabinet ministers mainly). Cabinet also represents the constitutional principle of collectivity and the mode of working, collegiality. It is the working framework and moral code of British government, honoured often in the evasion, but acknowledged, even respected. (The strength of the British Constitution is measured by the respectful language used in its evasion.)
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© 1991 P. J. Madgwick
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Madgwick, P. (1991). Introduction: The Cabinet as a Principle of Government. In: British Government: The Central Executive Territory. Contemporary Political Studies. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-14897-4_4
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