Walpole by John Morley ~ Full Audiobook [biography]
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The Power of the Prime Minister
Foreign affairs must always be the matter of continuous thought in the mind of the prime minister they are not continuously before the cabinet it has not therefore the same fullness of information as the prime minister. The regular course for a minister who is dissatisfied with his chief's decision is to retire where the prime minister is displeased with the language or the action of a colleague he possesses no direct prerogative to call for his resignation without going first to the sovereign and procuring her assent but that assent could practically never be refused to a PM with a parliamentary majority unless the sovereign were prepared to take new advisors and face a dissolution. It is well understood that the sovereign has a right to demand the
