The era of new labour, 1997-2007

• When was the House of Lords act?

  1999
• When was the first election for mayor of London?

  2000
• what was the freedom of information act?

  An act in 2000, that gave people the right to request information from public bodies
• When was the human rights act?

  1998
• When was the Scotland and Wales acts?

  1998
• When was the Good Friday agreement?

  1998
• Why was the House of Lords reform seen as a mess?

  Ended in compromise in which hereditary peers weren’t abolished but cut to 92
• What was the result of the first mayor of London election?

  Ken Livingstone, a former Labour MP who Blair removed for being associated with the ’loony left’ won
• What was the result of devolution for Scotland and Wales?

  the Scottish nationalists (SNP) and Plaid Cymru (PC) gained support
• What did the Roy Jenkins commission report in 1998?

  Recommended replacing the first-past-the-post with a more proportional system. But no changes were made