The counter-terrorism act 2008 which further increased the powers of the police investigating terrorist threats, allowed the fingerprinting and taking of dna samples from individuals subject to control orders introduced by earlier anti-terrorist legislation and allowed this information to be shared with the national police database.

The tea party movement is a. an official third party that challenges both democrats and republicans in national elections. b. an organized challenge to incumbents in the republican party by the most conservative wing of the republican party. c. an organized challenge to incumbents in the democratic party by the most liberal wing of the democratic party. d. an offspring of the green party that runs for state and local office in many midwestern states. e. the now defunct party that gave way to the republican party at the end of the “second party system.”