Edexcel Politics 4. The Executive & Institutional Relations

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The concept that judges should exercise no bias toward any political philosophy or section of society and thus should not affiliate with any political party or pressure group, and should keep out of the public eye as much as possible

Where judges such as those in the Supreme Court can - through the process of judicial review - declare that a statute is incompatible with the Human Rights Act, and thereby invite Parliament to reconsider the offending statute

The number of the twelve Supreme Court judges who are women as of June 2020

The principle that ministers are responsible for their own conduct as well as the policies and decisions of their department regardless of their own involvement and should resign in the event of serious errors, or poor conduct

The most senior civil servant whose job it is to serve the prime minister personally and cabinet collectively

Those cases that the Supreme Court does not hear

That body, the influence of which, is much determined by the extent to which the prime minister uses them genuinely as a sounding board or as just a rubber stamp

That position which has been criticised for sometimes holding too much influence compared to ministers and civil servants

A small group of very senior ministers including the Prime Minister, who dominate the development of government policy

The twelve crossbenchers from the House of Lords who acted as the highest court in the UK until the 2005 Constitutional Reform Act became active in 2009

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An office with a chief of staff backed up by nearly 200 civil servants and special advisors which gives policy advice, helps set the direction of future government policy, and helps to present policy favourably

The process whereby judges review the actions of public officials and bodies in order to determine whether or not they have acted in a lawful manner

Where the main decision making of government takes place in cabinet, now much superseded by 'prime ministerial government'

That individual who cannot be dismissed by Parliament, unless as part of a motion of no confidence that dismisses the government in its entirety

That body in which a vote for misconduct is the only way of removing a Supreme Court judge before they reach the age of 75

That prime minister that placated their party by including a wider range of views in Cabinet in the form of making Old Labour John Prescott, Deputy Prime Minister

That party centred issue which determines the strength of the Prime Minister's power in Parliament

The Defence Secretary who was sacked for conduct - namely due to evidence he supposedly leaked from a National Security Council meeting - on the 1st May 2019

The number of the twelve Supreme Court judges that went to Oxford or Cambridge Universities as of June 2020

Those individuals who usually chair public inquiries due to their experience of such issues and their independence from government