Labour’s Heidi Alexander won the seat, returning to Parliament after she resigned in 2018 to take up a position with the mayor of London. Robert Buckland, then-Britain’s Secretary of State for Wales, arrives for a cabinet meeting at 10 Downing Street in London, Tuesday, Oct. 11, 2022....
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LONDON, Oct. 30 (Xinhua) -- The Speaker of Britain's House of Commons John Bercow said Monday there must be zero tolerance of sexual harassment by politicians. Bercow made a statement ahead of a major debate following growing allegations that female staff in the Houses of Parliament had been...
LONDON. Aug. 8 (Xinhua) -- Britain's governing Conservative Party, led by Theresa May, the country's second female prime minister, announced Wednesday it aims to have a 50-50 gender split in its ranks of House of Commons Members of Parliament (MPs). Conservative chairman Brandon Lewis said...
To clone the repository and set up the dependencies, run the following: git clone https://github.com/ukparliament/grom.gitcdgrom bundle install We useRSpecas our testing framework and tests can be run using: bundleexecrake If you wish to submit a bug fix or feature, you can create a pu...
The make-up of the European Parliament has a knock-on effect on the allocation of some of Brussels’ top jobs. One of the first tasks of UK MEPs will be to vote on Jean-Claude Juncker’s replacement as the next European Commission president. ...
The European Parliament announced just before the Easter break that its members have approved three laws on implementing the EU’s “Own Resources system”, paving the way for the introduction of new sources of EU revenue. Once the system is ratified by
Governments are more responsive to the demands of the populations they govern than churches are. So, there grew demands for access to marriage to be widened. Parliament introduced legislation to allow categories of people to get married that the Church had previously not allowed to marry. ...
Meanwhile, the TUC failed to make preparations. It ignored the Labour Party in and out of Parliament and in turn party leaders opposed a national strike. The 1926 general strike failed after 9 days as the government plan devised by Winston Churchill proved highly effective in keeping the ...
Until June 2016, the UK played an active part in the European Parliament after joining in 1973 although they chose not to enter into the Economic and Monetary Union. Following a national referendum on June 23rd 2016, the UK narrowly voted to leave the EU (known as Brexit) although this ...