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The Cabinet Office was established a hundred years ago tomorrow, on Friday the 9th December 1916, by the Prime Minister David Lloyd George in the darkest days of the First World War. But what role does it have in modern politics?

Sir Anthony Seldon is vice-chancellor of the University of Buckingham and author of ‘The Cabinet Office, 1916 – 2016, The Birth of Modern Government’. He argues that the cabinet office, if used effectively, could have saved Thatcher and Blair.

Clare Short is a former Labour MP and Secretary of State for International Development. She argues the role of the cabinet government has been reduced under modern leaders and this has led to weaker decisions.

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