President Cameron

I’ve just penned an article auditing Cameron’s style of premiership, and hope you will see it in the next edition of FPTP.

Here are the background articles I used.

Useful perhaps if you want students to carry out an exhibition on the power of the PM, or the Tory Party at the beginning of AS. Some, not many, require entry to the Times online via the paywall.

Background material on Cameron acting in a presidential manner

Use of special advisers

Personal intervention in policy

Outsider strategy attacking normal government processes

Cameron usually more popular than his party

Foreign policy and quasi head of state

Successfully pleasing backbenchers

Yes, but Cameron hasn’t successfully exercised presidential power

Operating under capacity

The West Wing is a TV show not a template for effective government

Osborne is the real political powerhouse

Cameron needs to be bolder

U-turns might be seen as a weakness