Across
- 3. The official Opposition, ---, lost 42 seats in the 2019 general election.
- 5. The --- Party are the main ‘non-sectarian’ party in Northern Ireland. They are not defined by their policy on the border issue, whether NI should be in the UK.
- 7. The UK press regulator IPSO is weak and ineffective – it is a voluntary system rather than ---, so newspapers have little to fear.
- 10. When a bill, a potential new law, bounces back and forth between the Commons and the Lords, we have parliamentary --- ---! (This is an actual technical term!)
- 13. The right to --- is already heavily limited in the UK, but pressure groups like Just Stop Oil are being threatened with long jail terms for their activism by the UK government, which labels them ‘domestic terrorists’.
- 14. The UK media, especially newspapers, has a serious issue around ---; there is a concentration of right-wing views in the UK press.
- 17. Those on the left believe in putting higher taxes on imports to protect local companies and employees; --- seeks to make foreign goods less attractive to domestic consumers.
- 18. The House of Lords is known as the --- chamber.
Down
- 1. Right-wingers claim to believe in the powers of the free --- to solve most issues.
- 2. As it is sort of independent from government … almost … OfCom is termed a ---.
- 4. A secret --- is a basic expectation of a democracy – if the state knows how you vote you end up with results like Uganda, where the current president supposedly won 98% of the vote!
- 6. When a bill has completed its path through the legislature and been signed by the monarchy it becomes law: an --- of parliament.
- 8. As the name suggests, --- parties are those who believe that Northern Ireland is British and must remain within the UK.
- 9. The 5th biggest party in the House of Commons the --- only stands in one part of the UK – just like the 2nd, 6th, 7th, 8th and 9th biggest parties!
- 11. In addition to the Sinn Fein MPs who refuse to take part in the House of Commons, The --- is an MP who also does not take part in votes.
- 12. According to the Index on --- the UK has fallen behind almost every Western democracy in terms of the freedoms it offers.
- 13. Left-wingers ideologically oppose --- schools; Labour has promised to remove the charity status from privileged schools.
- 15. A number of Conservative backbenchers are threatening to vote against their own government over the ‘--- Agreement’, a deal between the EU and UK which seeks to improve the Northern Ireland ‘protocol’ deal.
- 16. There are two major nationalist parties in Northern Ireland. --- --- are the more hardline, Republican, of the two.