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Membership and offices in the Privy Council – what is the significance of the different predicates used to describe the transactions?
One of the answers to the question How does anyone know for sure who the Prime Minister is? contained a link to the list of approved orders and business transacted in the July 6, 2024 session of the ...
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What is preventing the UK from stopping arms exports to Israel?
Recent polling has shown that a majority of the UK public supports banning arms exports to Israel. A recent YouGov poll showed that 56% of all UK voters support a ban whilst 17% are against a ban. ...
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When was the last/prior time a former PM served in another (non-PM) position in the UK government?
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Sunak then announced he was bringing Cameron back to frontline politics as foreign secretary, in a stunning move that has few parallels in recent British political history.
Cameron served as ...
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How can central government intervene when a council declares itself bankrupt?
As quoted by the Guardian and a local news website, Woking borough council is on the verge of bankruptcy (due to failed investments and financial mismanagement.) To put in context how much debt the ...
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How uncommon is it for a Prime Minister not to respond to an urgent question themselves?
Quite a lot has been made of Liz Truss not attending the House of Commons to answer an urgent question from the Leader of the Opposition Keir Starmer on her decision to replace the Chancellor of the ...
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Which organization is responsible for investigating allegations of systemic discrimination within the EHRC?
The Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) is a public body, funded by the British government, which is responsible for promoting and enforcing equality and non-discrimination laws in England, ...
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Why has the UK Government moved away from "Ministry of..." names?
Traditionally, UK Government departments were named "Ministry of [blar]". For example,
Ministry of Transport
Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food
Ministry of Education
In recent ...
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UK Government's contract award ruled illegal. What are the consequences?
As widely reported (e.g. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-57413115) the UK Government was found to have acted illegally in awarding a contract to associates of Michael Gove (the minister who ...
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What obligations exist for Scottish Ministers to report meetings to the civil service?
Yesterday Nicola Sturgeon gave evidence to the committee of the Scottish Parliament examining her involvement in the inquiry into allegations against Alex Salmond. Part of that examination involved ...
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What position & power does the Church of England assume in the upper house of Lords?
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The Church of England (C of E) is the established church of England.[3][4][5] The Archbishop of Canterbury is the most senior cleric, although the monarch is the ...
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How long has the role of Chief Adviser to the Prime Minister existed in the UK?
Currently in the UK, Dominic Cummings is the Prime Minister's Chief Adviser. I am trying to learn about this position, but cannot find much information about it. How long has this position existed ...
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Is it (still) possible to create an anonymous shell company in the UK? If not, when did they actually implement checks on that?
From "the missing Crypto Queen" (a BBC story on the OneCoin scam):
He takes the first one on the list and looks it up on the Companies House website. Everything is meant to be transparent - ...
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Is there a summary of Johnson's government plans to defund the BBC (assuming this is correct)?
According to CNN Johnson's government
announced plans that pave the way to removing the BBC's public funding model. Johnson's government has been locking horns with the BBC virtually since he came ...
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Cabinets in USA (presidential) and UK (parliamentary) system difference? [closed]
What differences are there in the way the cabinets work between the UK, with their parliamentary system, and the USA, with their presidential system?
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Can the United Kingdom Legislature legislate anything it wants?
This question arises from an answer to a question here regarding Parliamentary Sovereignty. If the UK Parliament was to legislate for something, assuming it didn't violate international treaties etc., ...
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