Ramsay Muir

He described Prime Minister as "the steersman of steering wheel of the ship of the state.”

The role of the Prime Minister in the British parliamentary government is so significant and crucial that observers like to call it a 'Prime Ministerial government.’ Thus, R.H. Crossman says, 'The post-war epoch has been the final transformation of cabinet government into Prime Ministerial government.’ Similarly, Humphrey Berkely points out, 'Parliament is not, in practice, sovereign. The parliamentary democracy has now collapsed at Westminster. The basic defect in the British system of governing is the super-ministerial powers of the Prime Minister.’ The same description holds good to the Indian context too.