Government & Politics department of St. Leonard's Catholic School
Durham, UK
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The fun didn't stop for Year 13 this week. Today, constructing their own model of the Houses of Parliament.
Year 13 taking part in the traditional key thinkers 'Come Dine With Me' for Christmas. Varying degrees of enthusiasm on display.
Year 12: one to also show the divisions within the Conservative Party.
In tomorrow’s @Telegraph , I set out the five tests that the Prime Minister’s emergency legislation must meet to stop the boats.
telegraph.co.uk/politics/202…
Year 12: Just Stop Oil currently providing numerous examples of pressure group activity.
Just Stop Oil activists smash National Gallery painting famously targeted by suffragette in 1914, as two arrested l-bc.co/49m0MiJ
Year 12: a good example when looking at the PM, cabinet and collective responsibility.
Home Secretary Suella Braverman did not make all the edits requested by Downing Street to her Times article, BBC told
bbc.in/47rmlwm
Yr 12/13: links to Conservative Party policies & factions and also to conservatism in general.
Three more Conservative parliamentarians, two MPs and a senior peer, have signed a pledge to withhold support for the government's upcoming Autumn Statement if it proposes raising tax overall bit.ly/496jxXh
Yr 12: one to read for our 'voting behaviour and the media' topic.
GB News breached impartiality rules in interview with Reform Party leader Richard Tice, Ofcom finds
bbc.in/3s1ZfNV
Year 12: pressure group activity!
Unions associated with Labour attempting to force Starmer to commit to renationalise energy at the Labour Party Conference. We he listen?
#PressureGroups
Year 12: a good example of pressure group activity. Obviously the success of the campaign remains to be seen.
“We’re going to create a mass movement of working people. We’re going to change this country and win for our people.”
@RMTunion’s Mick Lynch speaks to thousands at King’s Cross yesterday.
Join the movement to say #EnoughlsEnough: wesayenough.co.uk
Good luck to two of our former Politics students, Ruby and Joseph running the Great North Run tomorrow and raising money for @STLDBoatClub and the Sir Bobby Robson Foundation. Link to donate below:
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Another interesting move from Liz Truss. Is this a response to the uproar against it?
Liz Truss shelves bill of rights as Whitehall cites need for radical overhaul – live theguardian.com/politics/liv…
Year 13: does it also pose a conundrum for us trying to determine where this Conservative government lies ideologically?
ANALYSIS. The twin promise of a massive energy bill bailout for families and businesses plus those tax cuts a conundrum that could trigger 'existential threat' to Conservative Party | Politics News | Sky News news.sky.com/story/the-conun…
Year 12: hopefully there was a big news story from today that made your news diary 🤔 also keep an eye on the comings and goings from the Cabinet!
Parliament's effectiveness in holding government to account. One for any new Year 12s completing their news diary:
Ex-Commons standards chief hits out over Partygate legal advice reports theguardian.com/politics/202…
