Rebeca crossword Oct 15 UK politics key terms

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Across
  1. 2. One of the four main areas of policy, the others are education, environment and immigration.
  2. 4. The body where the executive can be scrutinised and proposed new laws are debated and voted on.
  3. 10. Former leader of the Labour Party. He is currently an independent MP.
  4. 13. A country with an undemocratic system with limited freedom or human rights. Another word for this is dictatorship.
  5. 15. Most of the Northern Ireland parties are ---. They mainly represent one of the two main religions and a position on whether Northern Ireland should be British or Irish.
  6. 17. These parties in Northern Ireland are associated with Protestants and believing Northern Ireland is British. The term is also used in Scotland for parties that oppose Scottish independence.
  7. 19. When your vote is kept private.
  8. 20. The most common type of voting system across Europe is --- representation. It has multi-member constituencies and tries to roughly match a party's vote share to their number of seats.
Down
  1. 1. When a general election fails to receive an outcome one party having an overall majority.
  2. 3. The person who sets the budget for all the other departments. This is the second most powerful job after the PM.
  3. 5. A vote on a single issue usually with yes or no options.
  4. 6. A party without an overall majority trying to govern and hoping they won't lose a confidence vote is a --- government.
  5. 7. Passing down power from the centre to a smaller region.
  6. 8. Each MP represents an area; a constituency. The people in that area are his/her ---. Even if most --- voted for other parties the MP must represent them all.
  7. 9. If opposition parties put forwards a --- vote and win, that forces the sitting government to resign.
  8. 11. The monarch must sign a bill passed through parliament before it becomes a law or an act.
  9. 12. Governments with two legislatures.
  10. 14. When an MP leaves / quits one party to join another and takes their party whip.
  11. 16. The Northern Ireland national legislature is the Northern Ireland ---.
  12. 18. A proposed new law which must get voted through parliament.