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“a system based on local customs and precedent rather than formal legal codes”
What is common law?
________ are responsible for maintaining the support of their fellow MPs
What are Prime Ministers?
The term that best describes the UK's political regime
What is majoritarian?
The type of social division or identity that is most prominent in the UK
What is class-based?
The UK's conservative party was previously known as this
Who is the Tories?
The precedent set by the Magna Carta
What is limits to the power of the monarchy?
Tony Blair's policies differed from Margaret Thatcher's because of this
What is the devolution of power to the regional governments?
A characteristic of Britain's use of SMD electoral system
What is supporting the dominance of the Labour and Conservative parties?
This flag is the flag of the UK and has elements of the English, Scottish, and N. Ireland flags
What is the Union Jack?
What is a hung parliament?
Queen Elizabeth II is the longest reigning monarch (T/F)
The current PM
Who is Boris Johnson?
The Local government in the UK only has formal powers when this happens.
What is when the central government grants them?
The current Speaker of the House of Commons
Who is Sir Lindsay Hoyle?
When the UK left the EU
What is January 31st, 2020?
London's first nonwhite and first Muslim mayor of any major Western capital.
Who is Sadiq Khan?
- members of the Opposition Party, each with a position that corresponds to one in office
- purpose is to oppose whatever policies the party in office advocates
What is a shadow cabinet?
The current number of MPs in the House of Commons
What is 650?
The current Opposition Leader in the House of Commons
Who is Sir Keir Starmer?
quasi-autonomous nongovernmental organizations
What are quangos?
When the Magna Carta was signed
What is 1215?
Created the Church of England
Who is Henry VIII?
The current number of MPs in the House of Lords
What is over 800?
Two results of the 2017 parliamentary SNAP elections in the United
Kingdom
What is a net loss of seats in Parliament for the Conservatives; the return to a “hungparliament”?
a Scottish nationalist and social-democratic political party in Scotland.
What is the Scottish National Party?