What are the limitations on the Prime Minister?

The media: Can pick up on small things such as Gordon Brown referring to Gillian Duffy as a bigot.

The Party: The Conservative Parties backbench demands for a European Uniion referndum when the Prime Minister did not want one.

Pressure of Event: David Cameron and the regugee crisis and his change of policy as a result.

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