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Can the UK government do anything about a foreign media platform rooting for civil war in the UK?
They could do four things:
Block Twitter/Musk from making money in the UK, or at least make it much harder for them to do so. Ban Tesla cars, ban payments for advertising to X, ban Starlink, etc. The ...
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If by-election is held close to the general elections is the seat contested again?
I suspect the answer is - yes. They have to do it again.
Two examples:
https://www.parliament.uk/about/how/elections-and-voting/by-elections/by-elections-2019/
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Blackpool South, by-elections held on ...
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To what extent are UK government finances known to the Opposition?
The opposition get no special access to government accounts, audits, etc. They have the same sources of information that are publically accessible to the media, such as reports from the Office of ...
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Can the UK government do anything about a foreign media platform rooting for civil war in the UK?
They could try arresting top executives at these social media sites. For example, France has just arrested Pavel Durov, one of the founders of Telegram, a messaging platform, for enabling illegal ...
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Can the UK government do anything about a foreign media platform rooting for civil war in the UK?
This is a complex topic that nobody can give you a full answer to in a Stack Exchange answer.
The Internet is a new enough medium that how to apply national laws to it (an inherently international ...
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How does one know which UK cabinet minister holds any particular power to make delegated legislation?
The theory is that any Secretary of State generally has the powers of any other Secretary of State, and most legislation is written that way.
The practice is sometimes different in some details and so,...
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Can the UK government do anything about a foreign media platform rooting for civil war in the UK?
Don't treat him as being significant
Musk wants influence, and hates being ignored. So ignore him, and stop using X-Twitter. Quite a few Labour MPs have done just that.
Of course, he may sue to try to ...
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If by-election is held close to the general elections is the seat contested again?
The best examples are the New Forest and Barkston Ash by-elections in 1905. Parliament didn’t sit between those by-elections and the subsequent general election, so the winning candidates never took ...
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If Act A repeals another Act B, and Act A is repealed, what happens to the Act B?
Unless the originally repealed act is explicitly reinstated, it remains repealed.
Section 15 of the Interpretation Act 1978 (Repeal of repeal) says
Where an Act repeals a repealing enactment, the ...
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To what extent are UK government finances known to the Opposition?
The U.K. government is quite transparent about its existing finances. It isn't publicly published to any level of detail one might desire, which a member of the government can request, but it is out ...
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