His collaboration with Washington, begun when he was the general's aide during the Revolution, was resumed when he entered the first Cabinet as Secretary of the Treasury.

The president of the Board was known as the First Lord of the Admiralty, who was a member of the Cabinet.

However, it was a sign of the party's lack of importance that they were not included in the War Cabinet.

The former was unacceptable to Heath's Cabinet and the latter to Heath personally, so the talks collapsed.

* On 29 May 2010 Chief Secretary to the Treasury David Laws resigned from the Cabinet and was referred to the Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards after the Daily Telegraph newspaper published details of Laws claiming around £ 40, 000 in expenses on a second home owned by a secret gay partner between 2004 and 2009 whilst House of Commons rules have prevented MPs from claiming second home expenses on properties owned by a partner since 2006.

Among them were the minutes of a Cabinet Eastern Committee meeting, chaired by Lord Curzon, which was held on 5 December 1918.

The phrase " national home " was intentionally used instead of " state " because of opposition to the Zionist program within the British Cabinet.

This declaration, which is always known as the Balfour Declaration, should rather be called " the Milner Declaration ," since Milner was the actual draftsman and was, apparently, its chief supporter in the War Cabinet.

At that time Ormsby-Gore, speaking for the government in Commons, said, " The draft as originally put up by Lord Balfour was not the final draft approved by the War Cabinet.

On 21 December 1988, Dewar was in Lockerbie after the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103, as the member of the Shadow Cabinet in charge of Scottish affairs.

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.

Lowry resigned from the Cabinet after it was revealed at the Moriarty Tribunal that businessman Ben Dunne had paid for an IR £ 395, 000 extension to Lowry's Tipperary home.

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

The advice given by the Cabinet is, in order to ensure the stability of government, typically binding ; both the Queen and her viceroy, however, may in exceptional circumstances invoke the reserve powers, which remain the Crown's final check against a ministry's abuse of power, this was last fully exercised in 1932, when Sir Philip Game dismissed Premier Jack Lang.

Commerce was considered a minor Cabinet post, with limited and vaguely defined responsibilities.

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

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.

Although the conditions were ripe for industrial unrest — Communist influence in the union movement was then at its peak, and the right-wing faction in Cabinet was openly agitating for a showdown with the unions — the combination of strong economic growth and Holt's enlightened approach to industrial relations saw the number of working hours lost to strikes fall dramatically, from over two million in 1949 to just 439, 000 in 1958.

The suggestion of suicide was emphatically rejected by Holt's son Sam, by his biographer Tom Frame, and by former prime minister and Holt's Cabinet colleague at the time, Malcolm Fraser.

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.

Freundel Stuart, and his Cabinet ; ( Parliament ) as legislature, divided into two chambers ( Senate and House of Assembly ), and an independent judiciary.

The Cabinet of which he was a member was often divided over most important issues.

Further when a party is divided into factions a Prime Minister may be forced to include other powerful party members in the Cabinet for party political cohesion.

Disraeli had " separate and confidential conversations ... carried on with each member of the Cabinet from whom he anticipated opposition had divided them and lulled their suspicions ".

French noted that Irish divisions could no longer be kept up to strength by voluntary recruitment, and in March 1918, when the Cabinet planned to extend conscription to Ireland, French claimed that “ opinion was about evenly divided ” on the issue, and thought it would remove “ useless and idle youths … between 18 and … 25 ” and would cause opposition but not “ bloodshed ”.

Cabinet itself — or full Cabinet — is further divided into committees.

The Labour Cabinet agreed that it was essential to maintain the Gold Standard and that the Budget needed to be balanced, but divided seriously over some of the measures proposed.

With the Cabinet so clearly divided it decided to resign office.

The powers of the President of Singapore are divided into those which the President may exercise in his own discretion, and those he must exercise in accordance with the advice of the Cabinet of Singapore or of a Minister acting under the general authority of the Cabinet.

In Terry Pratchett's Discworld novel Making Money, wizard Ponder Stibbons is placed in charge of the " Cabinet of Curiosity ", which he describes as " a classic Bag of Holding but with n mouths, where n is the number of items in an eleven-dimensional universe which are not currently alive, not pink and can fit in a cubical drawer on a side, divided by P ." To ask what " P " is, is " the wrong sort of question.

A small Cabinet of just ten Ministers was formed to take emergency decisions, with ministerial posts divided as proportionally as possible between the three parties, though relatively few Labour members joined the government.

The Labour Cabinet of the Prime Minister Harold Wilson, was divided over the issue.

Furthermore, the British Cabinet ( not to mention the Royal Family, then far more influential politically ) was itself divided on the issue for most of the period.

The British Cabinet was badly divided with David Lloyd George, the Chancellor of the Exchequer being strongly opposed to Britain becoming involved in a war.

The NSSSA is also divided into six regions ( corresponding roughly to county divisions in Nova Scotia ), each of which has its own Regional Cabinet which combines the responsibilities of both the Provincial Cabinet and the Conference Committee on a much smaller scale.

* On 14 October 2011 Secretary of State for Defence Liam Fox resigned from the Cabinet after he " mistakenly allowed the distinction between personal interest and government activities to become blurred " over his friendship with Adam Werrity.

These simple executive tasks naturally gave the Prime Minister ascendancy over his Cabinet colleagues.

It was not until late in the 18th century that Prime Ministers gained control over Cabinet composition ( see section Emergence of Cabinet Government below ).

After the failure of Lord North's ministry ( 1770 – 1782 ) in March 1782 due to Britain's defeat in the American Revolutionary War and the ensuing vote of no confidence by Parliament, the Marquess of Rockingham reasserted the Prime Minister's control over the Cabinet.

Asquith's Cabinet Reacts to the Lords ' Rejection of the " People's Budget "— a satirical cartoon, 1909 Prime Minister Asquith's government welcomed the Lords ' veto of the " People's Budget "; it moved the country toward a constitutional crisis over the Lords ' legislative powers.

He is the head of the Cabinet and appoints and dismisses the Ministers of State ; the literal translation of the Japanese name for the office is Minister for the Comprehensive Administration of the Cabinet or Minister that Presides over the Cabinet.

* Presides over meetings of the Cabinet.

Grant did not consult with his Cabinet over the issue, and by-passed State Department procedures.

Secretary Fish decided to resign over the affair, however, Grant was able to convince Fish to remain on his Cabinet.

With Scullin temporarily absent in London, Lyons and acting Prime Minister James Fenton clashed with the Labor Cabinet and Caucus over economic policy, and grappled with the differing proposals of the Premier's Plan, Lang Labor, the Commonwealth Bank and British adviser Otto Niemeyer.

This precedent was broken by President Woodrow Wilson when he asked Thomas R. Marshall to preside over Cabinet meetings while Wilson was in France negotiating the Treaty of Versailles.

The biggest argument Powell and Heath had during Powell's time in the Shadow Cabinet was over a dispute over the role of Black Rod, who would go to the Commons to summon them to the Lords to hear the Royal Assent of Bills.

After the King's initial dismay over Churchill's appointment of Lord Beaverbrook to the Cabinet, he and Churchill developed " the closest personal relationship in modern British history between a monarch and a Prime Minister ".

In June 1916 Lloyd George succeeded Kitchener ( drowned en route to Russia ) as Secretary of State for War, although he had little control over strategy, as General Robertson had been given direct right of access to the Cabinet so as to bypass Kitchener.

Downing Street in London, England has for over two hundred years housed the official residences of two of the most senior British Cabinet ministers: the First Lord of the Treasury, an office now synonymous with that of Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, and the Second Lord of the Treasury, an office held by the Chancellor of the Exchequer.

During the Grunwick dispute — where workers struck over pay, working conditions and the owner George Ward's refusal to recognise their trade union — there was a split in the Conservative Shadow Cabinet between the conciliatory approach of Jim Prior, the Shadow Employment Secretary, and Keith Joseph.

In late 1981 the Prime Minister announced the abolition of the Civil Service Department, transferring power over the Civil Service to the Prime Minister's Office and Cabinet Office.

Kitchener agreed that Robertson alone should present strategic advice to the Cabinet, with Kitchener responsible for recruiting and supplying the Army, although he refused to agree that military orders should go out over Robertson ’ s signature alone – it was agreed that the Secretary of State should continue to sign orders jointly with the CIGS.