The Cabinet Meeting

∑ Prime Minister

∑ Chancellor of the Exchequer

∑ Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport

∑ Secretary of State for Home Affairs

∑ Secretary of State for Education and Employment

∑ Secretary of State for Transport

Each member of the meeting is allowed one aide to advise them before the meeting starts, to help the minister think of ways to highlight their case. The PM is the chair of the meeting and they have to sum up and end after 15 mins.

Weekπs news: There has been a terrorist attack in Wales - no one was killed. London has won the rights to hold the Olympics. The junior minister for trains has been accused of being involved in a sordid sex scandal.

PM: Make sure as many people are as satisfied as possible, whilst also making sure you get your own way. Make sure voters/parliamentary party/media will also be satisfied with overall outcome.

Chancellor: Prioritise spending. You have £1b spare but can cut programmes for transport (a programme for trains) and you can also cut House of Commons expenses. You can also gain money by increasing tuition fees and imposing a windfall tax on tabloids. Each of these programmes is worth £1b each. You are Welsh.

Home Affairs: You want money spent on police/surveillance worth £2b.

Culture, Media and Sport: You want £1b to be spent on new sports facilities in time for the Olympics to be held in 3 years time.

Education and Employment: You are concerned about a possible rise in tuition fees and you have good figures on unemployment that in the past have been ignored by the press.

Transport. You want £1b to be spent on a better train service. The results of this will only show 5 years after the money has been spent. You are a personal friend of the junior trains minister and you know there is no one else in the parliamentary party who shares his knowledge and enthusiasm for the role.