ESSAY PLANS - POLITICS - AQA

9 MARKERS - GOVERNMENT AND UK POLITICS - ANS Explain and analyse three circumstances under which referendums have been held in the UK. - ANS P1 - TO FULFIL PLEDGES MADE BY PARTY MANIFESTOS E1 - Labour in 1997, promised to hold a referendum on a mayor of LONDON. 2015 Tories said they would hold an IN/OUT ref on the EU P2 - TO SATISFY TERMS OF AN AGREEMENT E2 - AV in 2011, Lib Dem/Coalition Agreement P3 - WHERE GOV ITSELF IS DIVIDED E3 - EU Referendum (2016) with parliament and other members of the government e.g Boris Johnson BREXIT - Also to fight off UKIP Explain and analyse three influences upon individual MPs when voting in the House of Commons. - ANS POINT 1:- Party Whip, issues instructions on how MPs should vote on a weekly basis- a three line whip is a strict instruction to attend and vote according to the party line EXAMPLE 1:- Boris Johnson's expelled multiple rebel Conservative MPs because they voted against the whip and voted against a no-deal Brexit ANALYSIS 1:- a Party Whip influences MPs largely when voting in the House of Commons because the consequence of voting against the whip is disciplinary action, which could end in expulsion ------------------------------------------------ POINT 2:- Constituency representation, MPs represent everybody in their constituency