Author Question: In 2014, British parliamentary leaders promised to grant more autonomy to _____________, prior to ... (Read 73 times)

lb_gilbert · **on:** Jul 8, 2018

In 2014, British parliamentary leaders promised to grant

more autonomy to _____________, prior to a failed referendum on secession from the United Kingdom.
a. Scotland and Wales, two of the four nations of the U.K.
b. Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland, three of the four nations of the U.K.
c. Northern Ireland, which has long since created its own strong national identity
d. Scotland, one of the four nations of the U.K. for over three centuries

Question 2

In the late 1970s and 1980s, Conservative leader and Prime

Minister Margaret Thatcher pushed the following policies to boost the U.K.'s economy:
a. moderate reforms of the nations' large welfare state and controlled economy.
b. total privatization of the National Health Service.
c. increases in immigration, along with extensive market reforms.
d. privatization of state-owned industries, more restrictions on unions, and welfare state and tax cuts.