1956 Commonwealth Prime Ministers' Conference and welcomed liberalization in the Soviet Union under Nikita Khrushchev hailing the "significant changes" in Soviet domestic and foreign policy as being positive steps for world peace. British attempts to negotiate a diplomatic settlement over Greek and Turkish claims regarding the soon to be independent British colony of Cyprus were also discussed. 1956 Commonwealth Prime Ministers' Conference The 1956 Commonwealth Prime Ministers' Conference was the eighth Meeting of the Heads of Government of the Commonwealth of Nations. It was held in the United Kingdom in June 1956, and was hosted by that country's Prime Minister, Sir Anthony Eden. The new
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom usually presented with comparisons to the American Presidency. Thomas Poguntke and Paul Webb define it as: "the development of increasing leadership power resources and autonomy within the party and the political executive respectively, and increasingly leadership-centered electoral processes".The classic view of Cabinet Government was laid out by Walter Bagehot in "The English Constitution" (1867) in which he described the Prime Minister as the primus‐inter‐pares ("first among equals"). This view was challenged in "The British Cabinet" by John P. Mackintosh, who instead used the terminology of "Prime Ministerial Government" to describe the British government. This transformation, according to Mackintosh primarily resulted