ANSWERS

1) B— wear a rosette

Only candidates and their agents can wear a rosette — and it must be plain.

listening to music, bringing a dog and being drunk are all acceptable, as long as they do not disturb anyone else.

2) A— Theresa May, D — Tim Farron

They both stood to be MP for north West Durham in 1992, and both lost.

3) TRUE

While photography in polling stations is not specifically outlawed, the problem is the potential of revealing how someone has voted — which is illegal.

4) All of them

Russell Brand has admitted that he has never voted, despite encouraging people to vote for ed Miliband in 2015.

although the Queen can vote, she never has because of her constitutional duty to remain neutral. David Frost also didn’t ever vote, for fear of giving people ‘the ammunition of labelling me a this or a that’.

and last year, Katie Price revealed that she hasn’t ever voted, despite having stood for Parliament in 2001 as an independent promising free holidays on the nhs.

5)B— 1886

There was a tie between the liberal and Conservative candidates in ashton-underlyne, with both receiving 3,049 votes. The Returning Officer gave his casting vote to the Conservative, John addison.

Today, the officer would decide the winner by drawing straws or tossing a coin.

6) FALSE

a PRiMe Minister needs to tender his or her resignation to the Queen. Mr Wilson had to delay because her Majesty was not at Buckingham Palace to receive him — she was at the races at Royal ascot.