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15 hours ago · The Labour Party leadership of Keir Starmer began when Keir Starmer was elected as Leader of the UK Labour Party and Leader of the Opposition in April 2020, following the resignation of Jeremy Corbyn after Labour's defeat at the 2019 general election. Starmer's tenure as leader has been characterised by movement towards the political centre and ...
15 hours ago · The 2001 United Kingdom general election was held on Thursday 7 June 2001, four years after the previous election on 1 May 1997, to elect 659 members to the House of Commons. The governing Labour Party was re-elected to serve a second term in government with another landslide victory with a 167-seat majority, returning 412 members of Parliament ...
- Tony Blair
- Sedgefield
- 21 July 1994
- Labour
15 hours ago · The 2005 United Kingdom general election was held on Thursday 5 May 2005, to elect 646 members to the House of Commons. The governing Labour Party, led by Tony Blair, won its third consecutive victory, with Blair becoming the second Labour leader after Harold Wilson to form three majority governments. However, its majority fell to 66 seats; the ...
- Tony Blair
- Sedgefield
- 21 July 1994
- Labour
15 hours ago · Early life Connolly was born in the Cowgate or "Little Ireland" district of Edinburgh in 1868, the third son of Mary McGinn and John Connolly, a labourer, : 28 Irish immigrants from County Monaghan. Throughout his life he was to speak with a Scottish accent. : 636 He left the local Catholic primary school at age 10 to seek work. : 14 At age 14, following his eldest brother John, he enlisted in ...
15 hours ago · Liberal Party (UK) The Liberal Party was one of the two major political parties in the United Kingdom, along with the Conservative Party, in the 19th and early 20th centuries. [3] Beginning as an alliance of Whigs, free trade -supporting Peelites, and reformist Radicals in the 1850s, by the end of the 19th century, it had formed four ...
15 hours ago · Crown-in-Parliament. Queen Elizabeth II. Sessions. 1st. 21 June 2017 – 8 October 2019. 2nd. 14 October – 6 November 2019. In the United Kingdom's 2017 general election, 650 Members of Parliament (MPs) were elected to the House of Commons – one for each parliamentary constituency. A record number of women (208) were elected as MPs.
15 hours ago · Labour government, 1964–1970. Harold Wilson was appointed Prime Minister of the United Kingdom by Queen Elizabeth II on 16 October 1964 and formed the first Wilson ministry, a Labour government, which held office with a thin majority between 1964 and 1966. In an attempt to gain a workable majority in the House of Commons, Wilson called a new ...
