In his advocacy of full checks and balances of Cabinet government that take time to work through policies, he deplored the messianic qualities of the Blair administration and a tendency towards authoritarianism that catapulted Britain into a desert wars in the middle east and came to dominate the agenda.
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He was again at centre of cabinet government, but had failed to make his mark attending only a quarter of the meetings held every ten days . In the Commons he was a diffident speaker, and not a great orator, which hampered advancement to the great offices of state.
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Witte was in October charged with the task of assembling the nation's first cabinet government, and he offered the liberals several portfolios ( Ministry of Agriculture to Shipov; Ministry of Trade and Industry to Guchkov; Ministry of Justice to A . F . Koni; Ministry of Education to E . N . Trubetskoy; Milyukov and Lvov were also offered ministerial posts ).
