He said the question to ask was if there was "a serious failure of cabinet government".
Imagine what the British constitution would look like if the principle of cabinet government were to be further weakened.
Nor is it clear that the weakening of cabinet government need be permanent.
"Over the past years, it just wouldn't be correct to say there isn't a proper functioning Cabinet government, " he said.
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But there has been a deepening of Cabinet government and particularly the Cabinet committees have worked in my view much better, without any question.
And the funny thing is that cabinet government in the sense of fights, factions and mutinies somehow lasted long after Crossman thought he saw through it.
Cabinet government actually worked better than people suggested under Tony Blair.
If cabinet government means collective decision-making, it vanished in the first world war, when the job of the state grew and power was spun out to a web of committees with the prime minister at the centre.
It is a charge that resonates beyond romantics who recall the post-war golden age of cabinet government when Whitehall was a collection of ministerial baronies, each run by a big beast and overseen by a prime minister who was merely primus inter pares.
Research cited in Welsh government cabinet papers says female appointments to the boards of executive bodies that are funded by the Welsh government fell from 38% in 2009 to 35% in April 2012.
The government's hopes of extending mayors beyond London have been scuppered for the time being at least, after Tories blocked a government-backed Private Member's Bill to allow experiments both with elected mayors and cabinet-style government.
Welsh Secretary David Jones has said he will press the case in the UK government cabinet.
We have the answer: Lesley Griffiths stays in the cabinet as Local Government Minister.
Martin Curtis was elected at a full council meeting during which cabinet-style government was rejected in favour of cross-party committees.
Wales' new Health Minister Mark Drakeford inherits one of the biggest, and arguably toughest, jobs in the Welsh government cabinet.
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So following approval by the National Security Committee and the Cabinet, the Government is today publishing the first national security strategy.
It is the first time the UK government cabinet has met in Wales since Gordon Brown chaired a meeting in Cardiff in July 2009.
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Top U.S. government cabinet officials are in Mexico today to talk to President Felipe Calderon about the escalating drug war that is ripping up parts of Mexico.
After 13 years serving in the UK government cabinet, he described leading the campaign to keep Scotland in the Union as, "the most important thing I've ever done in politics".
The BBC's Rana Jawad in Tripoli says there has been a sharp increase in security threats against the cabinet since the government announced it was taking steps to disarm and disband the militias.
Talks began in the afternoon when a delegation of cabinet ministers and government members entered the bullet-proof container where he has been holed up since Tuesday with thousands of his supporters gathered alongside.
The subsequent Liberal Democrat motion to replace the cabinet-style government of the council, which is made up of councillors from the dominant party, with cross-party committees was passed by 37 votes to 31, with one abstention.
Holding its first Cabinet meeting Thursday, the government agreed to scrutinize public spending and review all Cabinet ministers' wages, spokeswoman Najat Vallaud-Belkacem said.
After the truce, Mr Banzer shuffled his cabinet to give his government a fresh look.
The Lib Dems are also part of a joint cabinet committee with the government.
She is a non-executive director of the Efficiency and Reform Board at the Cabinet Office and the Government Digital Service.
In return, Kim Dae Jung would push for a "cabinet-style" government with a stronger prime minister -- Kim Jong Pil.
Sir Robert also said divisions in government, cabinet and public opinion over the legitimacy of the war inhibited post-war reconstruction efforts.
Responding for the government, Cabinet Office minister Francis Maude said it was a "very dignified and respectful gesture on behalf of Parliament".
After the cabinet meeting, the government said the court ruling had created "serious difficulties" for meeting budget targets agreed with international lenders.
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