Why Doesn't Westminster Work?
Inside Briefing with the Institute for Government
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The Role of the Prime Minister in White Hole
I think the issue is though it we've still got this fundamental tension of what is the role of the Prime Minister. There's a risk that if you're sort of moving in extra bleed towards this idea of a department for the Prime Minister and a command center for government. The problem is that too often that doesn't work and the reverse happens. So a lot of it does actually depend on the functioning of the PM and the degree to which they understand that. And so they treat their teams in a logical way.
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