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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What level of data anonymisation is the NHS federated data platform/Palantir using?
It is in the news that UK NHS patients will not be given the option of whether their medical data is processed by US spy tech firm Palantir. This is being justified by because their data will be ...
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What would happen if the UK government simply ignores the ECHR and proceeds with the Rwanda relocation scheme?
As explained in the answer to Would there be any economic consequences if the UK were to leave the ECHR?, leaving the ECHR over the Rwanda plan could potentially upset the Good Friday agreement and is ...
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If UK government "ignored the law" on asylum seekers, what are the consequences? [duplicate]
The UK government wants to send some asylum seekers to Rwanda, but the proposed policy has been ruled unlawful by the UK Supreme Court.
The Conservative deputy chairman Lee Anderson is widely reported ...
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Can the UK parliament just declare Rwanda a safe-country for asylum purposes?
Earlier today (15 Nov 2023) a UK Supreme Court ruling declared that the government policy of relocating asylum seekers to Rwanda was not permissible, due to the risk of relocation back to the ...
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When was the last/prior time a former PM served in another (non-PM) position in the UK government?
CNN:
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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Why does the UK compete in sports sometimes as "GBR" and sometimes as each of its individual nations? [duplicate]
In football and some other sports England, Wales, NI and Scotland compete as one independent country but at olympics, saling, skiing etc compete as "GBR"
What is reason for that?
UK has just ...
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Has UK common budget or every country has its own?
How financial system works in UK?
Must England, Scotland, Wales and North Ireland, fill the common budget or every country is completely independent, "keep" his money/profit for itself?
Does ...
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Have the UK government explained exactly why a march for peace in Gaza on Armistice Day would be disrespectful?
It is reported that various members of the UK government consider a march calling for peace in Gaza planned in London on Saturday 11 November disrespectful. However, while there are multiple quotes ...
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Why do you need to get court records transcribed to find out what was said?
It is in the news that it is very expensive for victims to access transcriptions of court proceedings of which they were present. For example one rape survivor said she was quoted £7,500 for the ...
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In what sense did the English Channel migration crisis begin “nearly five years ago”?
According to this article,
Meanwhile, ministers are understood to believe they have finally turned a corner on the number of migrants crossing the Channel, nearly five years after the crisis began.
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How many MPs have lost their seat in an election and subsequently been promoted to the House of Lords?
According to the electoral reform society Nearly 1/3 of current members of the House of Lords were politicians before their elevation.
In the current House of Lords, 29 percent of peers were ...
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What were the postal vote figures in the 2023 Tamworth UK by-election?
What were the postal vote figures in the 2023 Tamworth UK by-election? I have looked in many places online and could not find them (if they were published)
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Could the UK government be prosecuted for their role in aiding and abetting war crimes in Gaza?
Just came across this:
Prime Minister warned of intention to prosecute UK government officials for complicity in war crimes in Gaza
I don't want to rely solely on what they say on their page to assess ...
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What evidence is there to show that the UK has become more polarised in recent years?
Anecdotally, I have found it to be taken as a given that currently, the UK is in one of its most politically polarised times; whether that is from newspapers, or from the opinion of my social circle. ...
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UK budget and the financial services industry
A few days ago the BBC reported https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-66897881 on the disastrous mini budget of the Kwarteng/Truss era, and included this:
Economically, the UK has long enjoyed a ...
