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May 20, 2024 · The Victoria Cross (VC) is the highest award for gallantry in the presence of the enemy, and is also the highest honour in the British Honours System. A miniature of the award is worn on the undress uniform to indicate the unique nature of the award. Corporal Bryan James Budd, The Parachute Regiment, December 2006 (killed in action) During July ...
May 15, 2024 · Starmer Echoes 1997 Blair as Labour Kicks Off Bid for Power. Keir Starmer on May 10. Photographer: Dan Kitwood/Getty Images. Keir Starmer fired the starting gun on his bid to be Labour’s first ...
1 day ago · The 2007 United Kingdom local elections were held on Thursday 3 May 2007. These elections took place in most of England and all of Scotland. There were no local government elections in Wales though the Welsh Assembly had a general election on the same day. There were no local government elections in Northern Ireland.
1 day ago · Tony Blair (pictured in 1996), leader of the Labour Party, beat Major in the 1997 election. Major faced 1997 knowing that he would have to call an election at some point before May. He considered conducting an early election in March, but decided against it following a Conservative defeat at a by-election in Wirral in February.
1 day ago · Ed Miliband. Edward Samuel Miliband (born 24 December 1969) is a British politician serving as Shadow Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero since 2021. He has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Doncaster North since 2005. Miliband was Leader of the Labour Party and Leader of the Opposition between 2010 and 2015.
May 23, 2024 · Ken Livingstone. Kenneth Robert Livingstone (born 17 June 1945) is an English retired [2] politician who served as the Leader of the Greater London Council (GLC) from 1981 until the council was abolished in 1986, and as Mayor of London from the creation of the office in 2000 until 2008. He also served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Brent ...
6 days ago · President Bola Tinubu received former United Kingdom Prime Minister, Tony Blair at the State House in Abuja. Tinubu received Blair on Tuesday shortly after landing in the nation’s capital from ...
