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1
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how many seats do the SNP have in Westminster

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48 out of 59 available

2
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what are examples of elections where smaller parties do better than general elections

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European elections - in 2019 elections Brexit Party got 29 seats and Green got more than conservatives
Also do a lot better in local elections

3
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how many registered voters didn’t vote in 2015 and what does this mean for the uk having a multiparty system?

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33.8% in 2015

This means any party able to mobilise non-voters would stand a chance

4
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how much of the vote and seats did labour and conservatives get in 2015

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67.2% winning 86.5% of the seats available

5
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how many Scottish voters backed parties other than ‘the big two’ in the 2015 general election?

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61%

6
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how much of the vote did the lib dems get in 2019 and how many seats did they get compared to labour?

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11.6% of the vote and only 11 seats (191 seats behind labour)

7
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what are some strands of conservatism?

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traditional conservatism (a desire for continuity with emphasis upon traditions and heritage)
neo-liberal conservatism (a desire to focus upon the economy primarily by lowering taxes and taking away regulations from companies)
neo-conservatism (a desire to focus on law and order as well as public morality)
one-nation conservatism (a desire for the state to be just big enough to provide a safety-net when people need it, but encouraging people to be aspirational themselves)
thatcherism (combining a neo-liberal economic policy with a more orthodox conservative policy)

8
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who are some significant prime ministers of the conservative party?

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William Pitt the Younger, Robert Peel, Benjamin Disraeli, Margaret Thatcher

9
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what are some conservative policies from 2019?

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  • Increase the number of nurses by 50,000
  • Leave the EU in January
  • Spend £6.3bn on 2.2 million disadvantaged homes
  • Introduce a points based immigration system
  • No income tax, VAT or national insurance rises
  • Pensions will rise by at least 2.5% per year (or by the CPI measure of inflation or wage growth if they are higher)
10
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who were some significant labour prime ministers?

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Ramsay MacDonald, Clement Attlee, Harold Wilson, Tony Blair

11
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what are some strands of the labour party currently?

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  • momentum (democratic socialism) (a group which believes that the government should pursue socialism via democratic means)
  • old labour (social democracy) (a group which believes that the state should play an active part in peoples lives and that capitalism needs to be tamed in order to not be harmful to peoples lives)
  • New Labour (Third way) (a group that believe that there is a balance to be struck between Thatcherite capitalism and traditional socialism)
  • Future Britain Group (Centrism) (A group that seeks to pursue “achievable, possible and affordable policies”)
12
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what were some of labours policies in 2019?

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  • Raise the minimum wage from £8.21 to £10
  • Introduce a National Care Service
  • Free bus Travel for Under 25s and bring railways back into public ownership
  • Hold a second referendum on Brexit
  • Increase Health budget by 4.3%
  • Build 100,000 council homes a year
13
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who and what was significant in the revival of the liberal democrats?

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1997 when conservatives collapsed Lib dems somewhat benefited. Their stance on the Iraq war helped them become more popular and gave them a distinct identity. making themselves more visible in the media also helped, which Nick Clegg was good at.
Paddy Ashdown, Charles Kennedy and Nick Clegg were significant

14
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what were some lib dem policies in 2019?

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  • Stop Brexit
  • A penny income tax rise for the NHS
  • Free Childcare
  • Generate 80% of electricity from renewables
  • Tax frequent flyers
  • Recruit 20,000 more teachers
15
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what environmental policies do the labour party and conservatives have?

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Labour has a policy to bring forward the net-zero target to put the UK on track for a net-zero carbon energy system within the 2030s and the Conservatives policy to reach net zero by 2050

16
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how many seats do the lib dems have in Westminster?

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11

17
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what are some of the green party’s policies?

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spend £100bn a year to cut emissions, plant 700 million trees by 2030, remove fossil fuels from the economy, build 100,000 zero-carbon homes, ban single-use plastic

18
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how many councillors do the green party and lib dems have as of 2021?

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lib dem - 588 (increase of 8)

green - 151 (increase of 88)

19
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arguments for political parties being state-funded?

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  • if parties are not funded by taxpayers, they will be funded by wealthy individuals and interest groups
  • state funding would allow politicians to focus on representing their constituents rather than courting potential donors
  • parties such as the liberal democrats could compete on an equal financial footing because funding would be based entirely on membership or electoral performance
20
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arguments against political parties being state-funded

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  • taxpayers should not be expected to bankroll parties that they oppose
  • politicians could become isolated from real-world issues if they are denied access from interest groups
  • parties will always have unequal resources, even if state-funding is introduced - not least because there will be differences in membership levels and human and material resources
21
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what percentage of the vote did UKIP get in 2015?

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12.64%

22
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what percentage of the vote did UKIP get in 2015 and the Brexit Party in 2019 in the European Elections and how many seats did this equate to?

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UKIP 2015 - 27.5% - 24 MEPs

Brexit Party 2019 - 30.5% - 29 MEPs

23
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in what way was UKIP successful?

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their main goal and what they campaigned on was Brexit and not only did they get a brexit referendum but brexit has now happened

24
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what were some of the SNPs policies in 2019?

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  • Stop Brexit
  • Holding another independence referendum
  • Increase health spending
  • Bring a ‘real’ end to austerity (Press the UK government to invest in public services and the economy)
  • Scrap Trident
  • Protect the NHS
25
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how much if the scottish vote did the SNP get in 2019?

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45%

26
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what are the main parties in Northern Ireland?

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the DUP, the Ulster Unionist Party, Sinn Fein, the SLDP, the Alliance Party

27
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how many voters voted for parties other than the main two in 2019?

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24.2%

28
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what percentage of seats were won by either conservative and labour in 2019 general election?

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87.4%

29
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When did Corbyn have the Labour whip suspended?

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2020

30
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How many councillors did the Lib Dems and the Green Party gain in the 2022 local elections?

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Liberal Democrats gained 224

Green Party gained 87

31
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What percentage of the vote did UKIP win in the 2019 general election?

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0.1%

32
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how many councils do labour, conservatives and lib dems have control over in great britain?

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labour - 74
conservatives - 35
lib dems - 16