#Dayb4examples

Question 1

Opposition

Answer 1

Opposition Days - 2009 Gurkhas allowed to settle in UK

Question 2

3 select comittees examples

Answer 2

Public Accounts Committee investigation into HS2 - too expensive but still do it

Foreign Affairs Committee investigation into Lybia - Cameron was responsible for failure;

Business, Energy and Industry Committee into Sports Direct -

Mike Ashley was responsible for bad working practices, Treasury Select Committee into COVID relief - furlough should continue.

Question 3

3 House of lords limitations examples

Answer 3

2015 rejected cuts to tax credits (against Salisbury convention),

5 amendments suggested to 2020 Brexit bill all rejected by Commons,

defeated the Police, Crime, Sentencing & Courts bill 2020 which was eventually passed by the Commons anyway (Commons rejected amendments like making misogyny a hate crime)

Question 4

3 back bench rebellions

Answer 4

Brexit
Syrian Air strikes
Iraq War. 2005 - defeat on detention of terror suspects for 90 days

Question 5

turnout 2001 vs 2019

Answer 5

2001 = 59%; vs 2019 - 67.3%.

Question 6

turnout age 2019

e petitions

Answer 6

Issue of age: (2019) 18-24 year olds = 47%; 65+ =74%

E petitions: 2019 remain in the EU (6m signed) , 2017 stop Trump’s visit (1.86m)

Question 7

feutures of democracy

Answer 7

Features of democracy
Elections: (use turnout above)

Participation: (use turnout above)
Party membership: Labour: 450,000; Con: 180,000; SNP: 126,000. BUT 1950s: Con: 2.8m; Lab: 1m + trade union members

Legitimacy: 70% of votes were “wasted” in 2019 - 22.6 million; green party 2019 1 seat,

UKIP 2015 13% = 1 seat.

2019, 229 of the 650 MPs were elected on less than 50 percent of the constituency vote - 35 percent of all MPs lack majority support.

Education: £350m on the bus during the EU referendum 2016

Question 8

2019 corbyn headline

Answer 8

2017 “Don’t Chuck Britain in the Cor-bin”

Question 9

political parties

Answer 9

Con - Boris vs Jeremy Hunt 2019

Lab - registered supporters 2015, pay £3, 84% of them supported Corbyn. Now costs £25. members elected Corbyn despite only 15.5% of MPs voting for him.
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abour also elects deputy leader - Angela Rayner 2020

Question 10

policy formulation

Answer 10

John Major 1992 “it was all me”; Conservative manifestos made by small leadership group.

Labour vote on manifesto as a whole at conference not in individual policy - Keir Starmer “announced” policy at a conference in 2021 - investment in green infrastructure, removal of the charitable status of private schools.

Question 11

candifate selection - conservatives

Answer 11

Con: Occasional open primaries (eg in Gosport 2009);

Question 12

Royal Prerogative:

Answer 12

Royal Prerogative: Declare war/ negotiate treaties; prorogation 2019.

Question 13

conventions

Answer 13

Salisbury convention, Royal Assent last used 1707, Cameron forming coalition as leader of biggest party 2010, Parliamentary vote before declaring war (NEW CONVENTION)