Politics 2023 early basics

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Across
  1. 4. Each MP represents a single ---.
  2. 8. The --- are the major centrist party in the UK. They tend to be on the left on social issues but to the right on economics.
  3. 9. After the 2019 general election the Tories had a big overall majority with three hundred and --- seats!
  4. 10. Supporters of --- [2 words] the post, the UK’s voting system for national elections, argue it creates stable governments.
  5. 11. The --- Party has only one MP. Under the d’Hondt PR system they would have 12!
  6. 14. A key argument against PR (--- representation) voting systems is that they often lead to unstable coalition governments.
  7. 15. There are exactly six hundred and --- MPs in the House of Commons.
  8. 19. Most of the UK national daily newspapers are ----wing.
  9. 20. The NI nationalist or republican party --- refuses to take up their seats in the Commons.
  10. 21. The right-wing press were furious with the UK --- Court for blocking UK PM Boris Johnson’s illegal attempt to prorogue (close) parliament; the Daily Mail had a notorious front page calling them “enemies of the people”!
  11. 24. When Theresa May’s early election in 2017 backfired (her party lost seats having expected to badly damage Labour!) she made a supply and --- deal with the DUP for their 10 seats. This was a limited agreement and not a coalition.
Down
  1. 1. The issue of Northern Ireland’s place and status within the UK remains a major issue. The current government attempted with the --- Agreement (so called as it was signed at --- Castle!) to satisfy unionist protests over the effective Irish Sea border created as a result of Brexit.
  2. 2. The UK has a --- legislature: an upper and lower chamber. We also see this in the US.
  3. 3. The --- [2 words] Agreement, signed in 1998, was originally opposed by the DUP.
  4. 4. When the Lib Dems and Tories combined their seats to create an overall majority in the Commons they governed as a --- government.
  5. 5. The DUP boycott means that the Northern Ireland --- remains suspended, so local decisions are instead made by UK government ministers.
  6. 6. The Commons and Lords collectively are often simply referred to as --- as the buildings together are the Palace of ---!
  7. 7. Sir Keir ---, the current Labour leader, is seen to have moved Labour to the right of politics as a tactic to convince Tory voters to switch to his party.
  8. 12. The House of Commons can use the Parliament Act to overrule certain votes by the second or upper chamber, the House of ---.
  9. 13. The right to a free vote is denied within a ---.
  10. 16. The unionists in NI are furious that the Brexit deal has meant there is effectively an --- [2 words] border between NI and GB.
  11. 17. A --- is a national vote on a single issue.
  12. 18. Rishi --- is the current UK PM.
  13. 22. The 3rd biggest party in the Commons is the ---.
  14. 23. The DUP and UUP are the two major --- parties in NI.