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17-03-2026

Tuesday, 17 March 2026

government-and-politics paper-1 devolution informal lesson pure-lesson-work starter
  1. A party victory with a big majority 1997 Tony Blair Labour 2024 Margaret Thatcher 1983
  2. 2010 - Conservatives & Lib Dems
  3. Strength - simple system, consistently produces strong governments, weakness - not accurately representative - harms smaller parties
  4. D’Hondt
  5. A select committee is a committee composed of MPs to scrutinise the government (1 per department)
  6. One of the same? Not any more - the Prime Minister has consolidated power and become more powerful than other MPs
  7. Remove hereditary peerage
  8. Wales - Welsh Assembly - Senedd Scotland - Scottish Parliament - Holyrood Northern Ireland - Northern Ireland Assembly - Stormont
  9. Highest % wins, more local area i.e., Manchester (Andy Burnham), London (Sadiq Khan) combined authorities
  10. Voting system, lowering age to 16, and MSW count (extending Senedd)