cabinet ministers
Top department heads
Cabinet ministers are senior government officials who head major departments and serve as principal advisors to a head of government.
In parliamentary systems, they form the cabinet—the executive body that sets policy and runs government operations.
The prime minister appointed new cabinet ministers after the election.
In the US, the equivalent officials are called cabinet secretaries.
- ministerialOf official duties
- executive councilRuling advisory body
- governmentAuthority over a state
- front benchSenior parliamentarians' seats
- secretaryAdministrative office aide
legislation · portfolio · reshuffled · policy · question time · appointed · oath of office · opposition leader · diplomats · collective responsibility · bureaucracy · mandates · summits · briefings · chambers · advisors · parliament · sworn in
- ToriesConservative Party, Tory, Toryism, Thatcherism, Thatcherites
- CabinetSecretary of State, Secretary of Defense, Secretary of Treasury, Secretary of Commerce, Secretary of Education
- parliamentparliament, bills, votes, vote, debate
- state governmentstate budget, state senate, state legislature, state capitol, state constitution
- Statesmenstatesmen, Benjamin Franklin, politicians, Thomas Jefferson, Alexander Hamilton
- Victorian NotablesQueen Victoria, Prince Albert, Gladstone, Disraeli, Dickens
cabinet ministersordinary citizens
common people · grassroots activists · the public · outsiders · civil servants
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