These proposals are a good start, but ministers need to be bolder.

However, the rate of progress is far too slow and the relevant minister needs to get involved.

On this basis it is arguable, perhaps with some truth, that ministers need protection from their friends.

A prime minister, when taking action, needs to retain the support of the legislature, but a president is often less constrained.

But all prime ministers need to be aware of it.

Unpopular minister who's rubbed everyone up the wrong way needs to be got rid of.

The ministers don't need to come out in those suits and pose like models.

Philip V and his ministers needed to act quickly to reconstruct the empire.

In future, ministers need not look far for a way to bridge working relationships between central and local government.

"The prime minister needs to make a political settlement."