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5-Politics-Paper 2- Uk Government > News > Flashcards

News Flashcards

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Urgent question example

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Apr 2024- david lammy lab ask uq on gaza humanitarian situation

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Campaigns against brexit

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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

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Rishi on culture wars

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Sunak said people should not be criminalised for ‘stating simple facts on biology’ nacked jk rowling on critic of new scottish hate crime laws

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Devolution weakneing

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Sunak oppose scottish hatecrime laws

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Labour campaign attack

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‘Cost of chaos ‘ wbsite
Aims count costs of decision made by pm inc scra. Northern leg hs2 rail project
Tories wasted 8.2bn

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Disunity within con party

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Braverman stated that uk need greater support on israel
Critic uk for help to pass un sec council resolution on cionflict in gaxa

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Impact voter id laws

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2023 local elections resulted in 14000 individ turn away polling booths

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Regretting leaving eu

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According to economist 61% late 2023

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Divisions in party over policy

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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

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Local judiciary not upholding rights

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Muslim student loses prayer ban challenge
High court

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Lords ammendment on rwanda bill

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Apri 2024- require gov comply internat and domestic law

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Tough law and order

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Nitrous oxide made illegal- class c drug posession 2 years ago, supply 14y
Locking on bill

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Environmental issue on by election

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Ruslip by election tuckwell con ran on issue of ulez
Narrow srcrape 495 votes

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Minor party sucesssin by election

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Workers party rotheram
Lib dems somerton and frome

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Public consultatiion

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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

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Culture wars in appt

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Ester mcvay minister without portfolio
Former gb news host
Thought one priority would be cut number of diversity offciers in ciil service

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Collective ministerial respoisbility

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Dec 2023- jenrick reisgned immigration minister as felt rwanda not far enough

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Scot indpednece turnout and result

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85% trunuout
44% yes
55% no

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Lobbying

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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

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Controversial donor

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Frank hester- 10 mill to con
Stated that diane abott should be shot

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Failure of pmqs accountabbility

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Dianne aboott stood up 46 times to talk about hester coments but not chosen in march 2024

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Budget seeking to help working class people

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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
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VENA

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Green energy in budget

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Nuclear site in n wales and 120 mill fr gov fund invests in green energy projects

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Issue transcendng party politics

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Workers party candidate won in rochdale
Just 37% turnout

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Current ni parliament structure

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27 sinn fein, 24 dup, alliance. 17, up 9 and officla opposition sdlp with 7

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Liberty pg influence gov

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Agreed to protect confidential jorunalistic matterail collected in bulk date collected through hacking devices
Legal challenge achieved this
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27
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Use of parliament actss

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Hunting act 2004- hol postpone by a year and so passed a year later

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Gov defeats recently

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128 times 2021- 22

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Why lib dems lost suport 2015

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Truned back on [promise to cancel student tuition fees

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Lib dem policies in by election

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2021 chesham and amersham by election protest against hs2

31
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How many ministers did johnson resign

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62 in july 2022 crisis

32
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Sc not ultra vires

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Coughlan v minister for cabinet office 2022- sc cabinet office does have authority for pilot schemes voter id

33
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Conflict of interest in hoc

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More than 100mps earned over 10k a year as landlords
83 tories
18 lab
Renters refrom bill

34
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Unusual protest example

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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

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Example of insider and outsider groups working toegther

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Furlough scheme covid both tuc and cbi consulted

36
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Gdp fell during covid

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20% between march and April

37
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What year did snp 56/59

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2015

38
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Coalition failure

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2024 greens and snp coalition broke down

39
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Failure of coalitions - pr

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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

40
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Grassroots pg protests

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Gaza protests in uni uk- oxford cambridge
Participation- infomral

41
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May local elections 2024

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-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

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Multiparty sustem

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May 2024
Reform- won 17% vote
Con- won 17.5%
Blackpool osuth by election
But by election-

43
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Example good representation of constituent

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Ms Elphicke defected to labour
Mp for dover and disagree with immigration policy

44
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Governement listened to rebellion in party

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40bb
Criminalised homelessness
Inc sir ian duncan smith

45
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Collapse of coalition

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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

46
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Stricter law and order

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Mps back bill that woudl see death by dangerous cycling to become a law

47
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Voter id issue

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Yougov poll may 2024 14% unaware voter id needed

48
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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

49
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Recent comm work

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Post office and horizon palriament inquiry
Previously investigated by teh beis (business and trade comm) comm and the jsutice committee

50
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Example pbc ammendment

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Sara champion
Child safety bill 2015
Ammendment put in by minister in diff legal framwork but credited her

51
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Hol objections on rwanda

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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

52
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Exmample how pmqs just theatre

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Rayner call sunak a pint size loser

53
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Divisions within party in pmqs

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European research gorup euroskeptics asked to con on brexit

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Collective ministerial responsibility example 2

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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

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Environmental promises each party

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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

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Failure of welsh gov

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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

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Name of welsh gov

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Senedd

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Lib democrat policies

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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.

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Political consensus

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Lab con and lib dem pledge not raise vat

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Con tryiing to appeal older vters

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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.

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Con controversial policy

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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.

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Kier starmer socially lib policies

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Lower voting age 16 supported lib dem

63
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R miler v sec of state exit eu

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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

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