Y10 Politics Sept 2020

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Across
  1. 5. A --- says that the UK should remain as one.
  2. 7. JOHNSON --- is the current UK Prime Minister and also leader of the Conservative Party.
  3. 9. The Ulster --- Party is in favor of the union between Northern Ireland and Great Britain, but struggle against the DUP (who won 8 Commons seats to their zero in 2019!)
  4. 10. The --- Rod is the person who tells leads MPs from the House of Commons to the House of Lords during the state opening of parliament, a tradition meant to symbolize the independence of Westminster from the monarchy.
  5. 14. The UK is made up of four countries; England, Scotland, and --- (these 3 together are Great Britain) plus Northern Ireland, joined in a union.
  6. 15. The Tory Party is ideologically opposed the --- Labour Party.
  7. 16. Jeremy Corbyn was replaced as the leader of the Labour Party by --- Starmer after Labour lost 60 seats in the 2019 general election. Starmer is seen as more ‘centrist’ than the left-wing Corbyn.
  8. 19. The debating chamber where elected UK Politicians discuss and vote on potential new laws is knowns as the House of --- (the legislature)
  9. 21. STARMER --- is the Leader of the Labour Party and therefore the official Leader of the Opposition as Labour are by far the 2nd biggest party in the Commons.
  10. 24. By Law, the Speaker must remain --- between the political parties, and by convention does not usually vote in the Commons.
  11. 26. Iran is an example of a --- , a non-democratic system with few rights
  12. 27. The --- is a popular right-wing UK tabloid/red-top newspaper owned by Rupert Murdoch, who also owns Fox News in the USA.
  13. 28. Following the retirement of John Berkow, Sir --- Hoyle became the Speaker of the House of Commons.
Down
  1. 1. The PM works at 10 --- Street where the cabinet also meet (together they form the executive).
  2. 2. The biggest opposition party with 202/650 seats is the --- Party.
  3. 3. The biggest right-wing UK political party is the --- party. They won 359 out of 650 seats in the 2019 general election.
  4. 4. The Green party has --- members in the House of Lords (double their number of MPs!).
  5. 6. The Tories are a very --- party (formally called the Conservative and Unionist Party), for example they are for military spending and against welfare spending and immigration.
  6. 8. The two major nationalist parties in Northern Ireland are the --- and Sinn Fein, who won 2 and 7 seats respectively out of 18 NI MPs.
  7. 11. David --- was the PM who started the British ‘Brexit’ referendum.
  8. 12. If proportional representation had been used instead of first-past-the-post, the Green Party would go from winning just --- MP in the 2019 general election to 11!
  9. 13. SDLP and Sinn Fein are the major --- parties in the UK.
  10. 17. The major Northern Ireland nationalist parties are the SDLP and --- (who are a more hardline, Republican party)
  11. 18. The voting system used to elect MPs is called first-past-the----. Critics argue it is unfair especially on smaller parties like the Greens, Lib Dems and Brexit Party.
  12. 20. The dominant party in Scotland is the ---, who won 48 of the 59 Scottish Commons seats at the 2019 general election!
  13. 22. UKIP/Brexit are extreme ---wing parties.
  14. 23. Scottish unionists don’t want Scotland to be ---, unlike the SNP (who want ‘IndyRef2, a 2nd referendum on making Scotland --- from the UK)
  15. 25. The Conservative party is a --- party, opposed to aims of the likes of Plaid Cymru, Sinn Fein and the SNP.
  16. 26. Arlene Foster, First Minister of the Northern Ireland Assembly, belongs to the ---