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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Has an MP ever made use of the House of Lords Precedence Act to sit in the House of Lords?
During Business Questions on December 2nd, the Lord President of the Council - Jacob Rees-Mogg - was teased by the SNP's Pete Wishart about an alleged £6 million loan from his company Saliston Ltd, as ...
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What is the origin of the 'no photography' rule in the House of Commons?
While reading through Hansard to research a separate question, I came across the following exchange:
Mr Speaker: Order. Someone has flashed a camera. It is quite serious to take photographs in the ...
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Have Prime Ministers ever removed people from Honours Lists
PMQs again see Rishi Sunak pushed on the state of Johnson's resignation honours list and why he is allowing Johnson's nominations to the Lord's to go forward.
https://twitter.com/Haggis_UK/status/...
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What happened to the passport of Prince Charles when he became King Charles III?
Queen Elizabeth II (of the UK and other assorted Commonwealth realms) somewhat famously did not have a passport. (The theory being that passports are technically issued in the Monarch's name, so it ...
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What would be the reasons for the exclusion of the UK and others from the Indian e-Visa?
This is a follow-up to this Travel question
The UK, Canada, China and others have been excluded from the Indian e-Visa program when reintroduced in October 2021.
I'd assume this has been done to force ...
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Examples of unchallenged repetition in a Commons filibuster
In a BBC article explaining the Private Members' Bill ballot, the "art of filibustering" is described. It differs from a filibuster in the US Senate in that participants must actually talk ...
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Channel Islands Equivalence in Financial Services
The Channel Islands are not 'in' the EU Single Market, but have a close relationship with it; this is particularly true in Financial Services, where they have a wide-ranging Equivalence agreement. ...
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What are the (bidirectional) flows of skilled workers between Australia and the UK, presently?
In relation to an Australian statement that there would be "brain drain" from Australia to the UK should a visa-free worker system be adopted between the two countries...
Surely, both Australia and ...
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Why are India's sedition laws still on the books?
Why India has not done away with archiac and abusive sedition laws once imposed by Colonial British rule?
It is not a political issue as all the major parties that have governed India since 1947 have ...
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Clarification of the meaning of 'universal claims' vs 'particular individual claims' in Social Policy
I am studying Social Policy in the UK, and I am unsure of the meaning of a question which I have been set: 'How should Social Policy respond to particular individual claims whilst addressing universal ...
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How frequent is it for governments to win votes in the house of Commons, which would fail without the backing of the opposition?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_government_defeats_in_the_House_of_Commons_(1945%E2%80%93present)
This is a list of government defeats in the house of Commons. Does a similar list exist for ...
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Are there any polls on the acceptance of the "Irish Sea border" in the UK?
I'm venturing a guess that a symbol that may constitute a rallying cry for hardcore Brexiteers is going to be the "Irish Sea border" which is already making its (still subdued) appearance as ...
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If the UK leaves the EU but joins the EEA, what happens to non-EU trade?
If the UK joins the EEA but leaves the EU, I understand it will have free trade with the EU via EFTA. What about trade with all the non-EU countries? I understand that the UK would not benefit from ...
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Are UK, the Netherlands and Germany considering pension fund reformation after stress tests of pension funds results?
According to this article, pension funds in the UK, the Netherlands and Germany face an “existential threat” because of their precarious financial positions:
Sven Giegold, a member of the European ...
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How much foreign currency gets injected into the British economy every year because of tax havens?
Britan's overseas territories combined are the largest tax havens in the world.
How much undocumented money from abroad gets injected into the documented British economy every year from its tax havens?...
