Cabinet of the United Kingdom

The Cabinet of the United Kingdom is the senior decision-making body of the Government of the United Kingdom. Formally a committee of the Privy Council, it is chaired by the current prime minister as leader of the UK’s executive government and the monarch’s most senior adviser. Its 28 members are secretaries of state and other senior ministers of state of the UK. Ministries are allocated, and thus cabinet membership is determined, by the prime minister, usually after informal consultation with other members of the political party forming government. By convention, Cabinet ministers are chosen from amongst the current members of the House of Commons and of the House of Lords; they almost always are members of the party with a Commons majority.