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Roger Mortimore
British Politics
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Seismographs for Youthquakes—How Do We Know How the Public Voted in British General Elections?
The question of whether or not Labour benefitted significantly from a “youthquake” in 2017 is perhaps the most controversial that has arisen in interpreting the outcome. This chapter explains the evidence on w...
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Seven Weeks Is a Long Time in Politics
Against prior expectations the 2017 General Election proved to be a particularly dramatic campaign, repeatedly stunning commentators from its surprise calling right through to its frenetic conclusion. In seven...
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Religion
None of the available sources of statistics on the numbers belonging to or following Britain’s various religions and denominations are entirely satisfactory. No census in Great Britain between 1851 and 2001 in...
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Referendums
Historically, were not used in Britain except to settle purely local issues, but a new precedent was set by the decision to hold a national referendum on British membership of the European Community in 1975....
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Interest Groups, Pressure Groups, Etc
The distinction between ‘think-tanks,’ research organisations and pressure groups or interest groups is often a tenuous one; what all the organisations listed in this section have in common is that they attemp...
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International Affairs
Main Territories Under British Rule Since 1900
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Governments
The following list contains the names of all those who have held paid and political ministerial office since 1900; it should be read in conjunction with the (pp. XX–XXX), which gives full names for those lis...
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Parties
In 1965 the Conservative Party introduced a procedure for the leader to be elected by a ballot of M.P.s.
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Parliamentary Elections
Information on elections to the European Parliament can be found in the Europe section, pp. xxx–xxx, on elections to the , National Assembly of Wales, Northern Ireland Parliament and in the Local Gover...
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Constitution and Rights
other countries internationally, the United Kingdom does not have a ‘written constitution.’
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Justice and Law Enforcement
Poor Prisoners’ Defence Act 1903. This was the first Act which made provision for legal aid, which was limited to trials on indictment.
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Investigation and Regulation
investigation of problems can take a number of forms: , Committees and special or committees. This chapter does not deal with purely Conferences
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The Public Sector
Economic activity by the state—other than the core activity undertaken by the —takes a range of forms which defy easy categorisation. Whereas a public corporation (or a limited company in which the state is a...
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The Media
For most of the twentieth century, the newspapers listed below printed in London only, except as otherwise indicated. (From the mid-1980s, new technology made printing in many different centres the norm rather...
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Political Allusions
The student of political history becomes familiar with allusive references to places, events, scandals, phrases and quotations. This chapter attempts to collect the most outstanding of these allusions.
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Devolution
Although the United Kingdom is sometimes described as a unitary state, it has always been characterised by considerable territorial diversity in its internal constitutional arrangements. The idea of Home Rule ...
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The Civil Service
Permanent Secretary is the official head and usually the accounting officer of the Department and is responsible to the Minister for all the Department’s activities.
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Parliament
Around 1900, sessions of Parliament lasted from February to July or August. Occasionally Parliament sat through the summer. In 1930 both Houses agreed that they should adjourn between July and October, and tha...
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Social Conditions
The Standard Regions previously used have been superseded from the 1990s onwards —the principal difference being the separation of London from South East and the transfer of the northern Home Counties and Ess...
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The Economy and Public Finance
The Treasury and, from 1964–69, have provided governments with their main official guidance.
