the electorate to think that troublesome/careless ministers still had a large influence in cabinet. However, certain cabinet members can possess a high level of power if they have a high public profile, as was the case with John Prescott during the Blair Government. It is in the best interests of the PM to conciliate key cabinet colleagues as resignations can be extremely damaging to the PM publically as the electorate might interpretate it that maybe the PM isn’t in harmony with his peers.
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century that portray Labour in a positive light. When the text was published, Tony Blair had been in office for three years. However during this time, Blair’s popularity was decreasing due to looming British military involvement in the Sierra Leone Civil War. This suggests that the text has been written at a time not only to celebrate Labour history but to also portray positively the Labour party and Blair due to the circumstances at this time. This is firstly relevant as Haines argues that
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Did the Conservatives Loose or Labour Win the 1945 General Election? The 1945 election came quickly after the aftermath of World War Two and few knew how the election was going to turn out with party politics being pushed into the background during the six years of total war that Britain and her people experienced. This came to a surprise when Churchill’s war government was pushed out in favour of Labour instead and there is much debate surrounding this issue as to who lost and who won this election
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Assess the main factors which determine how voters discriminate between political parties at general elections There are many factors that may affect voting behaviour; of which age, occupation, financial stability, gender, party records and place of residence are all important. However, the first, and possibly most important, is the party policies shown on the manifesto. Voters may often choose to vote instrumentally, to find the policies that suit them and their needs best. For example, an expansionary
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All unit 1 government and politics past questions: 2011 1) Explain the term turnout used in the extract. (5 marks) 2) Using your own knowledge as well as the extract, consider why some commentators have spoken of a ‘participation crises in recent years. (10 marks) 3) ‘Deciding which party to vote for is now essentially a rational exercise.’ Discuss. (25 marks) 4) Explain the term wasted votes used in the extract. (5 marks) 5) Using your own knowledge as well as the extract, consider why
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How effectively do the UK's main political parties fuffil their key roles and functions? Introduction: In the UK we currently have a two party system the Labour party and the Conservative party, each party has main roles that they need to perform in order to provide an active government system. These key roles come in five different forms known as the following; * participation, this is where the parties allow members within the party as well as citizens to participate in the political process
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2015 is not the end of UKIP Despite UKIP failing to dramatically increase the number of seats for their party in Parliament from the 0 seat count in 2010 to the meagre 1 seat of Douglas Carswell in Clacton (a former member of the Conservative party), they did see a substantial increase in their vote count. This has seen an exponential rise ever since the General Election in 2001 where they gained 390,563, in the 2005 General Election they gained 605 973, in 2010 919,471 and finally in 2015 a huge
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season 4 Episode 2. Serena(S) and Blair (B) still stay at Paris and B get another chance from Prince Louis. But while B was getting ready for her perfect date, S was at Paris Morgue to make sure the people laid may or may not be Chuck Bass. Of course it wasn’t him. When S went back to tell B the whole sordid story B didn’t believe it for she just met Chuck minutes ago. Then S found her wayward stepbrother. Chuck told her that he would never go back. After he losing Blair, he didn’t think there wasn’t
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Gitte Michelle Hansen 2b, Engelsk grammatik 1. At the party he wore a black dinner jacket to match his wife’s long silk dress Rettelse: “to wear” er et ureglmæssigt verbum og skal bøjes “to wear, he wore” 2. Never had they seen deadlier accuracy than from the experienced deer hunter. Rettelse: deadlier er 2. grad af deadly, og “more” er også 2. grads markør, derfor skal der ikke være begge og ”more” skal fjernes 3. John always seemed to be the unlucky chap who was forced to do
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In the 2010 general elections the Conservative Party gained the most votes but not the majority to form a government, therefore a coalition was formed between the Conservative Party and the Liberal Democrats Party. I will be discussing two short term factors and two long term factors in my essay. The short term factors which I will be discussing are; the influence of the media and the election campaigns. The long term factors I will be discussing are; social class and the location of where the person
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