News Flashcards
Urgent question example
Apr 2024- david lammy lab ask uq on gaza humanitarian situation
Campaigns against brexit
Save british farming and kent fairness for farmers
120 tractors make way around westminster
Call for an end to a number of post brexit trade deals- claim allow imports into country that fall short uk standards
Rishi on culture wars
Sunak said people should not be criminalised for ‘stating simple facts on biology’ nacked jk rowling on critic of new scottish hate crime laws
Devolution weakneing
Sunak oppose scottish hatecrime laws
Labour campaign attack
‘Cost of chaos ‘ wbsite
Aims count costs of decision made by pm inc scra. Northern leg hs2 rail project
Tories wasted 8.2bn
Disunity within con party
Braverman stated that uk need greater support on israel
Critic uk for help to pass un sec council resolution on cionflict in gaxa
Impact voter id laws
2023 local elections resulted in 14000 individ turn away polling booths
Regretting leaving eu
According to economist 61% late 2023
Divisions in party over policy
Tobaccoo and vapes bill
Banning anyone born since 2009 unable biuy cigarettes
Health sec atkins- bill save thousands lives and ease the strain on nhs
Whilst truss- ‘unconservative’
Opposed sir simon clarke
Local judiciary not upholding rights
Muslim student loses prayer ban challenge
High court
Lords ammendment on rwanda bill
Apri 2024- require gov comply internat and domestic law
Tough law and order
Nitrous oxide made illegal- class c drug posession 2 years ago, supply 14y
Locking on bill
Environmental issue on by election
Ruslip by election tuckwell con ran on issue of ulez
Narrow srcrape 495 votes
Minor party sucesssin by election
Workers party rotheram
Lib dems somerton and frome
Public consultatiion
Taxi drivers not made to install cctv in cars
East cambridgeshire district council consulted taxi drivers and public
Overwhelming that most felt safe at work and use ttaxis
Culture wars in appt
Ester mcvay minister without portfolio
Former gb news host
Thought one priority would be cut number of diversity offciers in ciil service
Collective ministerial respoisbility
Dec 2023- jenrick reisgned immigration minister as felt rwanda not far enough
Scot indpednece turnout and result
85% trunuout
44% yes
55% no
Lobbying
Parliamentary comissioner for standards found that and agreed by cross party group on standards comm that mp mr paterson lobbied on behalf randox and lynns county foods- 100,000/year
Controversial donor
Frank hester- 10 mill to con
Stated that diane abott should be shot
Failure of pmqs accountabbility
Dianne aboott stood up 46 times to talk about hester coments but not chosen in march 2024
Budget seeking to help working class people
Cost of living fund extended
Extend full child benefits to housholds where highest earning parent up to 60,000 not 50,000
4,119 words
Aa
VENA
Green energy in budget
Nuclear site in n wales and 120 mill fr gov fund invests in green energy projects
Issue transcendng party politics
Workers party candidate won in rochdale
Just 37% turnout
Current ni parliament structure
27 sinn fein, 24 dup, alliance. 17, up 9 and officla opposition sdlp with 7
Liberty pg influence gov
Agreed to protect confidential jorunalistic matterail collected in bulk date collected through hacking devices
Legal challenge achieved this
Aa
Use of parliament actss
Hunting act 2004- hol postpone by a year and so passed a year later
Gov defeats recently
128 times 2021- 22
Why lib dems lost suport 2015
Truned back on [promise to cancel student tuition fees
Lib dem policies in by election
2021 chesham and amersham by election protest against hs2
How many ministers did johnson resign
62 in july 2022 crisis
Sc not ultra vires
Coughlan v minister for cabinet office 2022- sc cabinet office does have authority for pilot schemes voter id
Conflict of interest in hoc
More than 100mps earned over 10k a year as landlords
83 tories
18 lab
Renters refrom bill
Unusual protest example
Critical mass
In l=over 300 cities
Draw attention as to how unfriendly city is to ccling- london apr 2024
Not formalised more social movement in meetinga t area
Example of insider and outsider groups working toegther
Furlough scheme covid both tuc and cbi consulted
Gdp fell during covid
20% between march and April
What year did snp 56/59
2015
Coalition failure
2024 greens and snp coalition broke down
Failure of coalitions - pr
Collapse np green coalition apr 2024
Hamza yousef resign
Yousef wanted to reduce climate targets- greens unhappy, kicked them out
Labour and con party both tabled confidence motion- believes will loose
Grassroots pg protests
Gaza protests in uni uk- oxford cambridge
Participation- infomral
May local elections 2024
-electoral system
-london mayor 40%, low turnout for important position, from sv
-minor parties- council elections
-greens won record number- 181
-workers party of britain- 4
-reform uk- 2
-wep- 1
But just local elections, when people want togive message unhapppu with them
Multiparty sustem
May 2024
Reform- won 17% vote
Con- won 17.5%
Blackpool osuth by election
But by election-
Example good representation of constituent
Ms Elphicke defected to labour
Mp for dover and disagree with immigration policy
Governement listened to rebellion in party
40bb
Criminalised homelessness
Inc sir ian duncan smith
Collapse of coalition
Welsh la and plaid cymru collapsed as plaid cymru pulled out as first minister failedt o pay back 200k donation to his leadership campaign from a company convicted of envrionmetal offences0 lack of judgement
Stricter law and order
Mps back bill that woudl see death by dangerous cycling to become a law
Voter id issue
Yougov poll may 2024 14% unaware voter id needed
Votes at 16 doesnt work
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Can vote in the issle of man- 55% 2006, 46% 2016- overall decreased
But 75% 16 and 17yo truned out for scottish independence referendum
Recent comm work
Post office and horizon palriament inquiry
Previously investigated by teh beis (business and trade comm) comm and the jsutice committee
Example pbc ammendment
Sara champion
Child safety bill 2015
Ammendment put in by minister in diff legal framwork but credited her
Hol objections on rwanda
Safety of rwadna (asylum and immigration bill) passed parliamenyt, ignored hol ammendments
Bishops of Chelmsford and Derby both voted in favour of an amendment from Lord Anderson on determining safety. This required the Government to consult with the Independent Monitoring Committee in future; if the Committee did not agree that Rwanda was safe, the country would be deemed not to be so. It was passed by 240 to 211.
MPs rejected the amendment 312 to 237, however, and the Bill was passed unamended.
Lords spiritual repetedly ammend, how safety of rwanda determined and modern slavery victims protected
Exmample how pmqs just theatre
Rayner call sunak a pint size loser
Divisions within party in pmqs
European research gorup euroskeptics asked to con on brexit
Collective ministerial responsibility example 2
May 2019 gavin williamson sacked as defence secretary by theresa may after pm believed he was the source of a leak from. A nat security councl meeting, disputed but reisgned anyway
Environmental promises each party
Kier starmer in scotland- green energy projects in scotland- where hq of great british energy, snp and con cost jobs whilst greens not far enough
But sunak said that punish fly tippers by add poits to driving licences
Failure of welsh gov
Vaughan gething motion no confidence- issued by welsh con, largest opposition party, over controversial 200k donation to leadershp campaign from a amn convicted of environ offences
Name of welsh gov
Senedd
Lib democrat policies
The Liberal Democrats have said they would increase taxes on social media giants and companies like Amazon and Google to fund mental health professionals for all England’s state schools, if they win the general election.
The new workforce would be paid for by tripling the amount such companies pay in what is known as the Digital Services Tax.
Political consensus
Lab con and lib dem pledge not raise vat
Con tryiing to appeal older vters
The Conservatives have promised to raise the tax-free pension allowance via a “Triple Lock Plus” if they win the general election.
Under the plans, the personal allowance for pensioners will increase at least 2.5% or in line with the highest of earnings or inflation.
Con controversial policy
Conservatives plan to force all 18-year-olds to carry out a form of national service if they win the next election.
Under the plans, 18-year-olds would be given a choice between joining the military full-time for a year or spending one weekend a month for 12 months volunteering in their community.
Kier starmer socially lib policies
Lower voting age 16 supported lib dem
R miler v sec of state exit eu
2016-2017
Whether power invoke article 50 (sets out how country can leave ) to start process for uk to leave eyu lay with exec or parliament
Parliament did need
