Executive authority is vested in both the Prime Minister and Cabinet who are collectively responsible to Parliament.

The Prime Minister and Cabinet is formed by the political party which gains a simple majority in the general elections held in Barbados.

In December 2000, Azali named a new civilian Prime Minister, Hamada Madi, and formed a new civilian Cabinet.

Article 65 explicitly vests the executive power in the Cabinet, of which the Prime Minister is the leader.

Cabinet members are appointed and dismissed at the sole discretion of the Prime Minister.

Holt spent 32 years in Parliament, including many years as a senior Cabinet Minister, but was Prime Minister for only 22 months.

Suspension of the writ in Canadian history occurred famously during the October Crisis, during which the War Measures Act was invoked by the Governor General of Canada on the constitutional advice of Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau, who had received a request from the Quebec Cabinet.

The politics of Japan is conducted in a framework of a parliamentary representative democratic monarchy where the Prime Minister of Japan is the head of government and the head of the Cabinet that directs the executive branch.

The Cabinet members are nominated by the Prime Minister, and must also be civilian.

The Cabinet is composed of Prime Minister and ministers of state, and is responsible to the Diet.

* 1962 – In an unprecedented action, British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan dismisses seven members of his Cabinet, marking the effective end of the National Liberals as a distinct force within British politics.

* 1990 – The Jamaat al Muslimeen attempt a coup d ' état in Trinidad and Tobago, occupying the Trinidad and the studios of Trinidad and Tobago Television, holding Prime Minister A. N. R. Robinson and most of his Cabinet as well as the staff at the television station hostage for 6 days.

Prime Minister Winston Churchill dispatched Sir Stafford Cripps, a member of the war Cabinet who was known to be politically close to Nehru and also knew Jinnah, with proposals for a settlement of the constitutional problem.

He became one of Quebec's leading lawyers and was so highly regarded that he was offered a position in the Cabinet of the Conservative Prime Minister Arthur Meighen in 1926 and was offered a seat as a justice in the Supreme Court of Canada.

* The power to exercise based on the advice from the Prime Minister, the Cabinet, and the Conference of Rulers ( Article 32, 38, 40 )

The Executive branch of the government consists of the Prime Minister as the head of the government, followed by the various ministers of the Cabinet.

The Executive branch being with the Cabinet have 4 most powerful executive offices, Prime Minister, Deputy Prime Minister and 2 offices of Vice Prime Minister.

The Cabinet was appointed by the king on the recommendation of the Prime Minister.

The head of state is Queen Elizabeth II, who is represented by the Governor-General and the head of government is the Prime Minister who chairs the Cabinet drawn from an elected Parliament.

Cabinet is the most senior policy-making body and is led by the Prime Minister, who is also, by convention, the Parliamentary leader of the governing party or coalition, and is known as the head of government.

After a heated argument in Bismarck's office Wilhelm, whom Bismarck had allowed to see a letter from Tsar Alexander III describing him as a " badly brought-up boy ", stormed out, after first ordering the rescinding of the Cabinet Order of 1851, which had forbidden Prussian Cabinet Ministers to report directly to the King of Prussia, requiring them instead to report via the Prime Minister.

The Prime Minister of the Commonwealth of Australia is the highest minister of the Crown, leader of the Cabinet and head of government, holding office on commission from the Governor-General of Australia.

* 1976 – Former British Cabinet Minister John Stonehouse resigns from the Labour Party.

By resigning Laws became the shortest serving Minister in modern British political history with less than 18 days service as a Cabinet Minister.

The two men remained unreconciled, even though they later served in the same Cabinet from May 1997 until 1999, when Dewar left to become First Minister.

His influence was perhaps most keenly felt when, on the Whigs ’ dismissal from office in 1834, he issued a pamphlet entitled A Letter to a Late Cabinet Minister on the Crisis.

Gurgenidze implemented only two changes in the Cabinet of Georgia so far, replacing Alexandre Lomaia, the former Minister for Education and Science and new Secretary of National Security Council with Maia Miminoshvili, former Head of the National Assessment and Examination Centre ( NAEC ).

In October 1940 Holt was elevated to Cabinet, becoming Minister for Labour and National Service, and one of his most significant achievements in this portfolio was the introduction of the Child Endowment Act, passed in April 1941.

Haryana has adopted a new sports policy on 21 August 2009, when Haryana Cabinet which met under the Chairmanship of Chief Minister, Mr Bhupinder Singh Hooda, approved the Sports Policy, 2009.

After the end of his viceregal tenure, Alexander was sworn into the Queen's Privy Council for Canada and thereafter, in order to serve as the British Minister of Defence in the Cabinet of Winston Churchill, into the Imperial Privy Council.

Later, on 24 January 2008 the Prodi II Cabinet went through a new crisis, because the Minister of Justice, Clemente Mastella, retracted his support to the Cabinet.

On 13 March, Goebbels had his reward for his part in bringing the Nazis to power by being appointed Reich Minister of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda ( Volksaufklärung und Propaganda ), with a seat in the Cabinet.

* 1957 – Ellen Fairclough is sworn in as Canada's first woman Cabinet Minister.

Lord De L ' Isle was Secretary of State for Air in Winston Churchill's Cabinet 1951 – 55.

In January 1941, Menzies flew to Britain to discuss the weakness of Singapore's defences and sat with Winston Churchill's British War Cabinet.

Macmillan attained real power and Cabinet rank upon being sent to North Africa in 1942 as British government representative to the Allies in the Mediterranean, reporting directly to Prime Minister Winston Churchill over the head of the Foreign Secretary, Anthony Eden.

The Queen appointed Macmillan Prime Minister after taking advice from Winston Churchill and Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 5th Marquess of Salisbury, who had asked the Cabinet individually for their opinions, all but two or three of them opting for Macmillan.

One exception is the famous, and now very popular tourist destination, Cabinet War Rooms, used by Winston Churchill during the Second World War.

Key A: Hall ; B: Saloon ; C: Green Writing Room ; L: Red Drawing Room ; M: Green Drawing Room ; N: Grand Cabinet ; H: Library ; J: covered colonnade ; K: Birth Room of Sir Winston Churchill H2: Chapel ; O: Bow room.

Some of the British Cabinet had attempted to block the speech, but were overruled by British Prime Minister Winston Churchill.

During the Second World War, details of the War Cabinet structure were communicated to Parliament ; Winston Churchill had previously announced a Standing Committee on National Expenditure in his 1925 Budget statement.

" A RAF Intelligence report in late October 1940 circulated to all pilots and their squadrons, with copies to Prime Minister, Winston Churchill, and the War Cabinet, declared: ' The manoeuvrability of the CR. 42s, in particular their capacity to execute an extremely tight half roll, has caused considerable surprise to other pilots and undoubtedly saved many Italian fighters from destruction.

He became a field marshal in the British Army in 1941, and served in the Imperial War Cabinet under Winston Churchill.

In 1908, now considered to be the United Kingdom's leading authority on unemployment insurance, he was introduced by Beatrice Webb to Winston Churchill, who had recently been promoted to the Cabinet as President of the Board of Trade.

Winston Churchill later wrote " In Sir Henry Wilson the War Cabinet found for the first time an expert advisor of superior intellect, who could explain lucidly and forcefully the whole situation and give reasons for the adoption or rejection of any course ".

It was then in 1940 that the governor general's office in the East Block of Parliament Hill was closed and moved to Rideau Hall and, in December of the following year, Winston Churchill arrived at the hall, where he presided over British Cabinet meetings via telephone from his bed.

He entered the Government as Solicitor-General in 1910, and advanced in 1913 to Attorney-General, in both cases succeeding Rufus Isaacs ; he was the leader of the ( unsuccessful ) Cabinet rebels against Winston Churchill's 1914 naval estimates, and contemplated resigning in protest at the declaration of war in 1914 but in the end did not do so.

David Lloyd George had never been enthusiastic about supporting the Poles, and had been pressured by his more right-wing Cabinet members such as Lord Curzon and Winston Churchill into offering the supplies.

The appointment of Winston Peters as Minister of Foreign Affairs and Peter Dunne as Minister of Revenue subsequent to the 2005 general election saw the status of Ministers outside Cabinet develop significantly, given that they were appointed to important ministerial positions outside Cabinet in exchange for their parties supporting the Government on matters of confidence and money supply while being required to defend Government policies only within their spheres of ministerial responsibility.

During World War II it was used as an air-raid shelter, notably by Winston Churchill and his War Cabinet.

The British Prime Minister, Winston Churchill took a personal interest in the raid, and on 3 March assembled the War Cabinet to hear from Major Frost and several other officers who had participated in it.

First serving as a junior minister under Winston Churchill for three years, he later entered Harold Macmillan's Cabinet in 1962 as Minister without Portfolio.

When the wartime coalition government was formed, Winston Churchill appointed him to the British War Cabinet as Minister without Portfolio in 1940.

His report impressed the Secretary of State for India, Leopold Amery, who persuaded Wingate to remove the recriminations in the paper, and then passed it to the War Cabinet and Winston Churchill.

The Queen took advice from senior Ministers, as well as Winston Churchill ( who backed Macmillan ), Edward Heath ( who as Chief Whip was aware of backbench opinion ) and from Salisbury, who interviewed the Cabinet one by one and with his famous speech impediment asked each one whether he was for " Wab or Hawold " ( it is thought that only between one and three were for " Wab ").