St Leonard's Gov&Pol

Government & Politics department of St. Leonard's Catholic School

[St Leonard's Gov&Pol @STLDPolitics]

Please support our rowers who are fundraising to have water and electricity installed in the school's boathouse:
https://t.co/RPklEaQnHM

[St Leonard's Sch BC @STLDBoatClub]

Great news! We are about to bring our boathouse into the 20th century with water and electricity. A Just Giving page has been set up to support this. We would be very grateful for any support - if you unable to donate, a share and a retweet would be great:
https://t.co/N47liQDczX

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The fun didn't stop for Year 13 this week. Today, constructing their own model of the Houses of Parliament.

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Year 13 taking part in the traditional key thinkers 'Come Dine With Me' for Christmas. Varying degrees of enthusiasm on display.

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Year 12/13: take a look at the Autumn statement as it *may* be one of the best examples we have of Conservative Party policy before May/June.

[Simple Politics @easypoliticsUK]

In total Jeremy Hunt said he had 110 measures for growth - a lot aimed specifically at business - but he didn't go into detail on them all. Phew!

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Year 12: one to also show the divisions within the Conservative Party.

[Suella Braverman @SuellaBraverman]

In tomorrow’s @Telegraph , I set out the five tests that the Prime Minister’s emergency legislation must meet to stop the boats.

https://t.co/TAumnuXaC9

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Year 12: divisions and factions within the Labour Party.

[Adam Bienkov @AdamBienkov]

The 56 Labour MPs who defied the whip tonight in order to vote for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza.

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Yr 12/13: a big case for our studies of UK Supreme Court as well as Conservative Party policies.

[Pippa Crerar @PippaCrerar]

BREAKING: Supreme Court rules that it would be *unlawful* to send asylum seekers to Rwanda in a major blow to the government.

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Year 12: Just Stop Oil currently providing numerous examples of pressure group activity.

[LBC News @LBCNews]

Just Stop Oil activists smash National Gallery painting famously targeted by suffragette in 1914, as two arrested https://t.co/VIOM76liEe

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Year 12: a good example when looking at the PM, cabinet and collective responsibility.

[BBC Politics @BBCPolitics]

Home Secretary Suella Braverman did not make all the edits requested by Downing Street to her Times article, BBC told

https://t.co/tbhE6ulxVe

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Yr 12/13: links to Conservative Party policies & factions and also to conservatism in general.

[PoliticsHome @politicshome]

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 https://t.co/8ePOgoDe4v

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Yr 12: one to read for our 'voting behaviour and the media' topic.

[BBC Politics @BBCPolitics]

GB News breached impartiality rules in interview with Reform Party leader Richard Tice, Ofcom finds

https://t.co/EUS7PEPEqc

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Year 12: pressure group activity!

[@SOT6FPolitics @sot6fpolitics]

Unions associated with Labour attempting to force Starmer to commit to renationalise energy at the Labour Party Conference. We he listen?
#PressureGroups

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Year 12: a good example of pressure group activity. Obviously the success of the campaign remains to be seen.

[Enough is Enough @eiecampaign]

“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: https://t.co/1SeHcIFCnR

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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:
https://t.co/qqmUgjsB0c

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Another interesting move from Liz Truss. Is this a response to the uproar against it?

[Guardian Australia @GuardianAus]

Liz Truss shelves bill of rights as Whitehall cites need for radical overhaul – live https://t.co/04aoD9ITW0

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Year 13: does it also pose a conundrum for us trying to determine where this Conservative government lies ideologically?

[Beth Rigby @BethRigby]

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 https://t.co/448lyO0QRB

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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!

[Balance of Power @BalancePowerUK]

Priti Patel confirms she's returning to the backbenches

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Parliament's effectiveness in holding government to account. One for any new Year 12s completing their news diary:

[Guardian politics @GdnPolitics]

Ex-Commons standards chief hits out over Partygate legal advice reports https://t.co/xpb1dBAHco

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Pressure group activity:

[Extinction Rebellion UK 🌍 @XRebellionUK]

BREAKING NEWS: Extinction Rebellion supporters have superglued around the Speakers Chair inside the commons chamber.

Right now inside Parliament a speech is being read out demanding a Citizens' Assembly Now: “We are in crisis. We can not afford to carry on like this..."