UK Parliament MPs and Lords Find MPs Simon Hart Simon HartThe Rt Hon Simon Hart is no longer a Member, but was most recently the Conservative MP for Carmarthen West and South Pembrokeshire, and left the Commons on 30 May 2024.Parliamentary career Voting record Early Day Motions Spoken ...
Mike Freer is no longer a Member, but was most recently the Conservative MP for Finchley and Golders Green, and left the Commons on 30 May 2024.
Final results of the vote, which follows a by-election last month when another Conservative defector won UKIP's first elected seat in parliament, are expected around 0300 GMT on Friday morning. Success for UKIP would also deepen Conservative fears of a split right-wing vote in the election to...
Labour’s Jeremy Corbyn said that Parliament now must “take control” of the Brexit process, adding that his party will hold cross-party meetings to “find a compromised solution that can command support in the House.” He said MPs needed to find a solution to “deal with the crisis” ...
The person with the most votes in each constituency is elected as a Member of Parliament to the House of Commons, the U.K.'s lower house. The party that wins the most seats in the House of Commons usually forms the new government and its leader becomes prime minister. Unlike in ot...
This was a long-shot, however, and as predicted in the polls, Labour won the 2024 general election by a landslide, winning 412 out of 650 seats. The sting in the tale for the Labour Party was that despite this large majority, they won a relatively low share of the votes and almost ...
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). ...
“UKIP MEPs are infamous for being not just Britain's laziest members of the European Parliament, but among the laziest in Europe,” MEP Rebecca Taylor, a member of the broadly pro-European Liberal Democrat party,wrote in a joint blog postwith Petros Fassoulas, chairman of the UK’s Europe...
These candidates won 5 seats in parliament, and almost another 7. They unseated arch Labour imperialists like Jonathan Ashworth; and they dented the majorities of others, now pro-austerity and pro-war mini...
But the left-of-center party is walking a tightrope by trying to appeal to both sides of the Brexit divide. Labour favors leaving the EU on its own terms, but opposes the government's Brexit deal, which has been rejected by Parliament three times. Labour and the government are holding ...