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What did Geoffrey Cox do?
Geoffrey Cox is an MP / was Attorney General from 2018-2020. In 2021, he was criticised for earning an extra £900,000 from legal work he undertook outside of his job as an MP.
what did Owen Patterson do?
He was an MP but criticised in 2021 for lobbying for the companies he worked for externally within Parliament.
what example related to the Brexit referendum proves the ‘Metropolitan bubble’ isn’t aligned with the rest of the population?
52% of the population voted Leave, whereas 74% of MPs voted for Remain. Had it been up to the MPs only, the will of the people wouldn’t have been done.
% of women in Parliament (2019) vs in real life
IRL: 51% but in Parliament: 34%
% of LGBTQ+ people in Parliament (2019) vs in real life
IRL: 2.7% (estimated) but in Parliament: 7%
% of ethnic minorities in Parliament (2019) vs in real life
IRL: 14% but in Parliament: 10%
% of privately educated people in Parliament (2019) vs in real life
IRL: 7% but in Parliament: 29%
what was the result of the Scottish independence referendum of 2014?
55.3% voted in favour of Scotland remaining in the UK, and 44.7% voted in favour of independence
what were the results of the 2016 EU membership referendum (Brexit)?
52% voted in favour of leave and 48% voted in favour of remain.
whose campaign encouraged the government to provide for children
in 2020, English footballer Marcus Rashford ran his #EndChildFoodPoverty campaign to encourage the government to provide children with free school meals during the holidays
give one example of e-petitions wasting the governments’ time
over 1 million signatures to revoking Sir Tony Blairs knighthood, was bestowed by the monarch so nothing could be done about it anyway. in 2019, there was also the campaign to revoke Article 50 so that the UK could remain in the EU- this got 6.1 million signatures, but was not legislated on.
