Across
- 3. The TV/radio regulator is this type of regulator: quasi-autonomous non-governmental regulator (so, kind of independent from government!)
- 5. '...whip' - if a politician ignores this instruction on how to vote they may face 'losing the whip'
- 8. ...Unionist Voice (TUV), a hardline loyalist party
- 9. The Daily Mail labelled this institution "enemies of the people" in a notorious November 2016 front page headline that many worried was distinctly fascist
- 12. The most high profile DUP loss in the 2019 general election
- 14. The opposite of private business, all government bodies and employees are part of this
- 16. The 'super-regulator' that oversees TV, radio, web, telephony/mobile
- 18. The voluntary self-regulator of the newspaper industry, criticised for being weak and ineffective
- 19. Rupert Murdoch's media empire is global, and include two national UK dailies, The S*n and The...
- 20. One of only 2 (supposedly!) left-wing national daily newspapers
- 21. Republican party who refuse to swear an oath to the queen and therefore won't take up their Westminster seats
- 22. The SNP will be seeking one, and the Tories will attempt to block them...
Down
- 1. "... dictatorship" - Lord Hailsham's memorable phrase to describe his fears that the majority Labour government of the 1970s had no real democratic check
- 2. The Lib Dems formed one with the Tories from 2010-2015 and as a result lost most of their MPs at the 2015 election, with left-wing voters disgusted at the 'centrist' party
- 4. Debates and tweaks planned laws, and scrutinises work of government
- 6. When an MP resigns or dies one of these is called. Smaller parties often do well in these
- 7. The BBFC is an example of this type of media regulator: established by law. Hint: monument Conservative
- 10. Labour had planned to undo the privatisation of multiple industries; the term for this is...
- 11. The PM, Cabinet
- 13. The only 'non-sectarian' (not linked to a religion or policy on the border) NI MP after the 2019 election
- 15. Aka laissez faire, the economic ideology that business should be left unregulated and private sector competition produces efficient results
- 17. '...and supply' - the £1bn deal the DUP made with the 2017 Tory minority government to guarantee them a majority in key votes