- MISTAKES
- Rare – ministers often survive e.g. reports into arms sales to Iraq in 1996 and BSE in 2000 uncovered mistakes but ministers survived.
- Estella Morris, education secretary resigned over not reaching the numeracy targets promised in 2002.
- POLICY FAILURE
- Foreign Sec Lord Carrington resigned after Argentina invaded Falkland Islands in 1982, but defence sec John Nott remained as Thatcher refused to accept his resignation.
- 1988: Edwin Currie resigned over criticism for her warning about salmonella in eggs.
- PERSONAL MISCONDUCT
- Brooks Newmark resigned in 2014 after it was revealed that he sent explicit images to an undercover reporter.
- Amber Rudd resigned in 2018 after she misled the Home Affairs Select Committee during a hearing on the Windrush Scandal.