L.S. Amery

"The Cabinet is the central directing instrument of Government”.

The position of the Cabinet in the British Government has become so strong that Ramsay Muir referred to it as the 'Dictatorship of the Cabinet’. In his book 'How Britain is Governed’, he writes "A body which wields such powers as these may fairly be described as 'omnipotent’ in theory, however, incapable it may be of using its omnipotence. Its position,

whenever it commands a majority, is a dictatorship only qualified by publicity. This dictatorship is far more absolute that it was two generations ago”. The same description holds good in the Indian context too.