Questions tagged [united-kingdom]
Questions relating to the government and politics of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. If your question relates to a specific country within the Union, be that England, Scotland, Wales, or Northern Ireland, use with the relevant tag.
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Airspace violation and nato article 5 [closed]
Russia violates NATO airspace repeatedly with attack aircraft.
Does this invoke article 5?
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Which party would benefit most if everyone voted in the UK general election?
Every time there is a general election acquaintances tell me they won't vote because their vote won't make any difference (or words to that effect). I have long since given up trying to argue with ...
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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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Why aren't alliances and independent runs more common in the UK?
Both Australia and the UK have single-member constituency-based representative electoral systems with a similar ratio of voters per seat. However, while it is common in Australia for parties to form ...
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Why can't the UK water companies go bankrupt?
There is a New Statesman podcast that gives an answer to the question in the title. Why, instead of the tax payer taking on the ~£16 billion that the owners have saddled Thames Water with, are they ...
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Has a party in the UK ever won parliament while losing the popular vote?
It is at least theoretically possible for a party to win a majority in parliament while an opposing party wins a majority of the popular vote. There are 650 seats in Commons, and an average of about ...
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Why does the EU find the foreign agent law in Georgia against their values?
The draft law would require organizations receiving more than 20% of their funding from abroad to register as "foreign agents".
The EU, which gave Georgia candidate status in December, has ...
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What is Rishi Sunak's reasoning/incentive to talk of a hung parliament, rather than a Labour majority, right now?
Since the 2024 UK local elections were held last week, Rishi Sunak has claimed that the general election result is "not a foregone conclusion", and that there may be a hung parliament at the ...
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Why did the UK Parliament not close all legal routes for appeal when passing the Safety of Rwanda act?
The Safety of Rwanda is quite broad but as per the opinion of legal experts it still leaves some routes for appeal:
Section 4(4) goes on to provide for very limited circumstances in
which a court can ...
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What options (short of abdication) might a Queen or King of England have to avoid giving royal assent, formally turning a bill into law?
The BBC's April 23, 2024 Rwanda: Why a migrant plane won’t be taking off anytime soon contains the following:
While the bill has now passed through Parliament, the quickest a flight can take off is - ...
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How does legislation "tel(l) judges to ignore a range of human rights safeguards baked into the UK's complicated constitution"? With what words?
The BBC's April 23, 2024 Rwanda: Why a migrant plane won’t be taking off anytime soon contains the following:
Legal challenges
In June 2022, the battle to put the brakes on the first flight went all ...
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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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What are the arguments for allowing MPs in the UK to work second jobs?
UK parliamentarians are permitted to hold second jobs unless they are ministers. Many MPs, particularly amongst the Conservatives, have availed themselves of this opportunity. For example, Jacob Rees-...
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Companies carrying out private investigations and prosecutions
For a number of month, the British Post Office scandal has been a leading item in British news largely thanks to a an ITV television drama. For those who don't know about the scandal, the short ...
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Preprinting 19☐☐ year on UK postal vote envelopes
I have just voted by post for the 2024 London mayoral and GLA elections and, as well as the usual shuffle of multiple ballot papers and double envelopes, I had to sign an envelope and include my date ...
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