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53 acts of Parliament were passed in 2000: 45 public general acts and 8 local acts. indicates that an act is available to view at legislation.gov.uk, and indicates the location of the original act in the Parliamentary Archives.
Margaret Thatcher. Thatcher formed a government on 4 May 1979, with a mandate to reverse the UK's economic decline and to reduce the role of the state in the economy. . Thatcher was incensed by one contemporary view within the Civil Service that its job was to manage the UK's decline from the days of Empire, and wanted the country to punch above its weight in international
Therefore, the list below refers to the "Head of Government" and not the "Prime Minister". Even so, the leader of a government was often colloquially referred to as the "prime minister", beginning in the 18th century. Since 1902, prime ministers have always held the office of First Lord of the Treasury. [4]
After further government defeats, a general election was held in December 2019—the first December election since 1923—which resulted in an 80-seat majority for the Conservatives, gaining many seats that Labour had held since at least 1945. The United Kingdom formally left the European Union on 31 January 2020.
2000s; 2010s; 2020s; 2030s; 2040s; 2050s; Subcategories. This category has the following 14 subcategories, out of 14 total. 2000s elections in the United ...
United Kingdom general elections (elections for the House of Commons) have occurred in the United Kingdom since the first in 1802.The members of the 1801–1802 Parliament had been elected to the former Parliament of Great Britain and Parliament of Ireland, before being co-opted to serve in the first Parliament of the United Kingdom, so that Parliament is not included in the table below.
The UK monarch benefits from sovereign immunity and cannot be arrested. As of 2022, there were more than 160 laws granting express immunity to the monarch or their property in some respects. [115] For instance, employees of the monarchy cannot pursue anti-discrimination complaints such as those under the Equality Act 2010.
The UK is a unitary state with a devolved system of government. This contrasts with a federal system, in which sub-parliaments or state parliaments and assemblies have a clearly defined constitutional right to exist and a right to exercise certain constitutionally guaranteed and defined functions and cannot be unilaterally abolished by acts of ...