How can the Size of Majority 1. Limit the Power of Cabinet 2. Enhance the Power of Cabinet

1. PM with a Large Majority can feel they can 'Ignore' the Cabinet, knowing Plenty of Backbenchers can back their Policies and will be Promoted should the Member of Cabinet leave. Blair and Brown said the Bank of England to be Independent without Telling Cabinet 2. PM with a Small / No Majority needs Cabinet's Support to stay Influential. Major had to get Opt-Outs on the Maastricht Treaty after Black Wednesday and Fearful European Integration