Democracy

Question 1

select committees example

Answer 1

Yvette Cooper vs Priti Patel - home affairs select committee, number of people entering the UK with covid

Question 2

bill committees example

Answer 2

Police, crime, sentencing and courts act amended by committees in both houses before being passed

Question 3

PMQs + and - examples

Answer 3

Boris questioned on ‘partygate’
Boris accusing Keir of failing to prosecute Jimmy Savile during time as director of public prosecutions

Question 4

Lords example

Answer 4

Evgeny Lebedev appointment

Question 5

Backbench MPs example

Answer 5

1922 committee of backbench MPs - ousted Boris and Liz

Question 6

lib dems 2019

Answer 6

12% votes 2% seats

Question 7

UKIP 2015

Answer 7

13% votes 0.15% seats

Question 8

SNP 2015

Answer 8

95% scottish seats
50% scottish votes

Question 9

conservatives 2021

Answer 9

22.8% votes 24% seats

Question 10

AMS accuracy

Answer 10

± 4%

Question 11

2022 councils SNP

Answer 11

34% first preference votes
37% seats

Question 12

Independent and green councillors

Answer 12

152 independent and 35 greens

Question 13

WAK

Answer 13

42.7% elected Andrew Bowie
no green candidate

Question 14

North East Scotland region

Answer 14

4 conservatives, 1 green, 2 labour

Question 15

2019 Conservatives

Answer 15

44% votes 56% seats
80 seat majority

Question 16

Stonehaven and lower deeside ward

Answer 16

2 conservatives, 1 SNP, 1 Lib Dem
Dawn Black, Dennis Robertson

Question 17

Lib dems in Lab/Lib coallition

Answer 17

abolished tuition fees and introduced STV for council elections with only 14% of support

Question 18

2022 female representation (FPTP)

Answer 18

225/650 MPs female - 34.6%

Question 19

Labour ‘zipped’ lists

Answer 19

10/22 MSPs female - 45.4%

Question 20

2022 female representation (AMS)

Answer 20

58/129 female - 44.9%

Question 21

2022 female representation (STV)

Answer 21

29% female

Question 22

Green/SNP power sharing

Answer 22

2 green junior ministers with only 4.7% votes

Question 23

SNP minority

Answer 23

introduced free prescriptions and MUP

Question 24

UKIP 2015 votes

Answer 24

almost 4 million

Question 25

social class

Answer 25

Ipsos Mori 2015 GE: AB - 45% cons, 26% lab DE - 27% cons, 41% lab

Question 26

turnout (age)

Answer 26

2017 YouGov: 18-19: 57% 70+ : 84%

Question 27

brexit

Answer 27

18-24 - 73% remain 65+ - 60% leave

Question 28

BME

Answer 28

2019 GE 3x more likely to vote Lab. than Cons. (Ipsos Mori)

Question 29

cons. improving representation

Answer 29

Rishi sunak first non-white PM, Sajid Javid first non-white Home sec.

Question 30

deprivation and race

Answer 30

2019: Pakistani ethnics over 3x more likely to be in most deprived 10% of UK than whites

Question 31

PPBs

Answer 31

Labour's directed by Ken Loach reached over 4 million when broadcast on TV

Question 32

televised leaders' debates introduced in...

Answer 32

2010

Question 33

2010 leaders' debate

Answer 33

Lib Dem support increased from 21% to 32% after first debate

Question 34

lib dems - 2010

Answer 34

vote increased by 1% to 23%

Question 35

the sun supports...

Answer 35

the winning/governing party

Question 36

bad covers

Answer 36

'save our bacon', Daily Mail anti-immigration covers and headlines

Question 37

newspaper circulation...

Answer 37

has declined for all major newspapers since 2010

Question 38

the sun circulation

Answer 38

stop declaring circulation figures in 2020

Question 39

vote leave FB ads

Answer 39

spent over £2.7 million on targeted FB ads, being viewed over 169 million times in total

Question 40

FB ads in 2019

Answer 40

only 48 political ads were viewed over 1 million times - 24 of which were labour's

Question 41

BMA advised on...

Answer 41

the abolition of prescription charges

Question 42

countryside alliance

Answer 42

weren't insiders during labour as lab. was trying to abolish fox hunting now with the cons. they are insiders

Question 43

trade unions example

Answer 43

unite and UNISON have a lot of members

Question 44

striking unions

Answer 44

2022/23: CWU for Royal Mail, EIS & SSTA for teachers and RMT for rail workers

Question 45

teachers pay agreement

Answer 45

march 2023: scottish gov. and COSLA agreed to a 14.6% paylift for teachers over the course of 28 months

Question 46

2023 RMT

Answer 46

voted to stop working overtime

Question 47

BLM

Answer 47

protests took place across the UK in Glasgow they protested streets named after slave traders ↳ names were then changed

Question 48

people's vote march

Answer 48

2019 london - one million people protested for a new brexit referendum