British Politics For Dummies, 2nd Edition

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The Scottish National Party has the second largest party membership, [30] but a smaller number of MPs as it only fields candidates for constituencies in Scotland. In 2022, following the collapse of the BNP, a plethora of prominent ex-BNP members rapidly began coalescing around the British Democrats. Kinnock progressively expelled members of Militant, a left-wing group which practised entryism, and moderated many of the party's policies. The Conservatives won 365 seats at the 2019 general election and had a majority, forming the first majority government since 2015–17.

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  Anarchism: Can be grouped around socialistic or individualistic strains. It was given in 1916 to Bonar Law, and when he declined, to David Lloyd George and in 1940 to Winston Churchill. When the nationalists came to power in 2011, opinion polls placed support for independence at around 31%, but in 2014, 45% voted to leave the union. Alec Douglas-Home resigned from his peerages days after becoming prime minister in 1963, and the last prime minister before him from the Lords left in 1902 (the Marquess of Salisbury).The term ' Liberal Party' was first used officially in 1868, though it had been in use colloquially for decades beforehand. The D'Hondt method of party-list proportional representation was used for European Parliament elections in England, Scotland, and Wales between 1999 and 2019 (the last such election before ' Brexit'). The principal Scottish pro-independence party, the Scottish National Party, became a minority government in 2007 and then went on to win an overall majority of MSPs at the 2011 Scottish parliament elections and forms the current Scottish Government administration. The SNP maintained its position in Scotland, the party was just short of an overall majority at the Scottish parliamentary elections in May 2016.

  Generally, the Tories were associated with lesser gentry and the Church of England, while Whigs were more associated with trade, money, larger land holders (or "land magnates"), expansion and tolerance of Catholicism. The Senedd had no powers to initiate primary legislation until limited law-making powers were gained through the Government of Wales Act 2006. Feminists seek to improve the political and, particularly, the social and economic position of women. The plurality-at-large voting (the bloc vote) is also used for some local government elections in England and Wales.
  
  The Liberal Party was one of the two dominant parties (along with the Conservatives) from its founding until the 1920s, when it rapidly declined in popularity, and was supplanted on the left by the Labour Party, which was founded in 1900 and formed its first minority government in 1924. All political parties have membership schemes that allow members of the public to actively influence the policy and direction of the party to varying degrees, though particularly at a local level.