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Why was the Workers Party of Britain not invited to the BBC Election Debate?
The BBC will have an Election Debate, and it just confirmed it is inviting 7 participants from 7 parties, two of which only had 1 MP in the recently dissolved parliament.
Is there a reason why the BBC ...
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In simple words, how does UK's Conservative party manage to retain dominance?
UK's Conservative party is one of two main parties and arguably dominant in the UK.
But I don't understand how did they manage to pull that off in the century XX with its urbanization. As one would ...
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Do major parties have explicit long-term agendas?
Major parties in two-party-dominated states (e.g. US and UK) have clear reputations, we can look at the laws they pass and listen to what pundits say about them. I have never read a manifesto (maybe I ...
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Who exactly has the authority to expel members from the Conservative Party?
Today William Wragg MP made remarks in Parliament in which he undertook to vote in line with a three-line whip on a vote described as a confidence motion in the Government. The reason he gave – for ...
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Is it a criminal offence to vote more than once in a UK party leadership election?
Ballots for the election of the leader of the UK Conservative Party have the following statement:
It is an offence to vote more than once. Any member who attempts to do so will have their membership ...
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Have any UK party leaders other than Sir Ed Davey been elected after previously losing a leadership contest?
Today, August 27th, Sir Ed Davey triumphed over competitors to become the leader of the Liberal Democrats after the position was vacated by Jo Swinson due to her failure to retain her Westminster seat ...
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Has a former UK party leader ever been expelled from their own party?
According to unverified claims from a Jewish Telegraph journalist on Twitter in July, Jeremy Corbyn, former leader of the Labour Party, faces having the whip withdrawn by the new Labour leadership, ...
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Was Change UK the shortest-lived political party ever?
Change UK was a centrist political party founded by disgruntled members of parliament from the Labour and Conservative parties which sought to achieve a second Brexit referendum. The party's final ...
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Has there been a comparison of party discipline in the UK with other European countries?
On one hand, the fact that MPs are elected in single-member districts would suggest they are more likely to break party discipline if their constituency has different interests. On the other hand, ...
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What would it take for a mainstream UK political party to cease to exist
Listening to former British Prime Minister Tony Blair this morning discussing the recent Labour defeat in the General Election. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/election-2019-50829352
From the article:
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How has the Brexit process affected eurosceptic movements in other European countries?
The rocky and unpredictable state of the Brexit negotiations over the past three and a half years seems to have had an effect on the level of support for the EU, with 68% of respondents across the ...
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Where would UK political parties fit on the US party political spectrum?
I have often heard the statement that the British Conservative party would be considered left-wing if they were to run in the US - in some cases further left than the Democrats.
How true is this ...
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Is there a convention regarding when election manifestos are launched in the UK?
The Independent is claiming that both the Conservative and Labour parties will launch their election manifestos in the week beginning 18/11/19. Is this assertion based on some tradition or convention, ...
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Are there influential theories why the Lib Dems have survived on the UK political landscape?
Generally a first-past the post FPTP electoral system favors a two-party system, aka Duverger's law.
In the UK however, the Lib Dems have managed to survive for (approximately) a century the ...
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Why does the UK have more political parties than the US?
After reading this article, I got to wondering why the US has 2 viable political parties while the UK appears to have many, even though both use first-past-the-post voting.
Across England and Wales,...
