On the contrary, being the one person essential to all parties, he selects Ministers from all parties, he constructs a Cabinet in which no one Minister agrees with any other in anything, and with all the members of which he himself frequently disagrees.
Bagehot describes the unconventional nature of a leader who selects a diverse Cabinet, often with conflicting views.
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