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www.parliament.uk. The Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland[g] is the supreme legislative body of the United Kingdom, and may also legislate for the Crown Dependencies and the British Overseas Territories. [4][5] It meets at the Palace of Westminster in London. Parliament possesses legislative supremacy and ...
The Conservative Party under Boris Johnson won a large majority at the 2019 general election and the new government passed the Brexit withdrawal agreement. [ 14 ] [ 15 ] The COVID-19 pandemic saw the government institute public-health restrictions , including limitations on social interaction, that Johnson and some of his staff were later found ...
After that election, UKIP, the Liberal Democrats, the Scottish National Party, Plaid Cymru, and the Green Party of England and Wales, together with its Scottish and Northern Ireland affiliated parties, delivered a petition signed by 477,000 [ 7 ] people to Downing Street demanding electoral reform.
The Labour Party is a social democratic political party in the United Kingdom that sits on the centre-left of the political spectrum. [ 8 ][ 9 ][ 10 ] In a broader sense, the party has been described as an alliance of social democrats, democratic socialists and trade unionists. [ 11 ] It is the governing party of the United Kingdom, having won ...
The UK government announces a scheme to offer failed asylum seekers £3,000 if they agree to move to Rwanda voluntarily. [203] The UK government announces a ban on foreign state ownership of British newspapers and news magazines following controversy over a potential purchase of The Telegraph by a consortium backed by the United Arab Emirates ...
Retained EU law (REUL) is a category of law in the United Kingdom created at the end of the transition period following the UK's withdrawal from the EU. REUL includes EU legislation which was "cut and pasted" into domestic law, along with certain domestic laws whose role was to implement EU regulations and directives.
e. Transgender rights in the United Kingdom have varied significantly over time. Trans people have been able to change their passports and driving licences to indicate their preferred binary gender since at least 1970. Transgender people were, prior to the ruling in Corbett v Corbett, able to have their birth certificate informally amended to ...
Edward Heath's 1970–74 government was known for taking the UK into the EEC, although the right-wing of the party objected to his failure to control the trade unions at a time when a declining British industry saw many strikes, as well as the 1973–75 recession. Since accession to the EEC, which developed into the EU, British membership has ...