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2022 In British Politics
A list of events relating to politics and government in the United Kingdom during 2022. Events January * 12 January ** The High Court rules that the government's use of a "VIP lane" to award contracts for personal protective equipment (PPE) to two companies was unlawful. ** Partygate: At Prime Minister's Questions, Boris Johnson confirms he did attend a party in the No 10 garden during the first lockdown in May 2020 and offers his "heartfelt apology". Opposition MPs and the leader of the Scottish Conservatives Douglas Ross call for his resignation. * 19 January ** Conservative MP Christian Wakeford crosses the house to Labour, after submitting a letter of no confidence in Boris Johnson in light of the "partygate" scandal. ** In Prime Minister's Questions Conservative MP David Davis invokes Oliver Cromwell in a question to Boris Johnson: " In the name of God, go". * 20 January – Conservative MP William Wragg accuses whips of blackmail against Conservative MPs who are bel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nus Ghani
Nusrat Munir Ul-Ghani (born 1 September 1972) is a British Conservative Party politician and Member of Parliament (MP) for Sussex Weald since 2024, having represented the predecessor constituency Wealden from 2015 to 2024. She has served as Chairman of Ways and Means, the senior Deputy Speaker of the House of Commons since 2024. Ghani served as Minister of State for Europe in 2024. She has previously served as Minister of State for Industry and Economic Security and Minister of State for the Investment Security Unit. In January 2018, she became the first female Muslim minister to speak from the House of Commons despatch box. From 2018 to 2020, Ghani was Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Aviation and Maritime and a Lord Commissioner of HM Treasury under prime ministers Theresa May and Boris Johnson. After having served as vice-chair of the 1922 Committee, she was appointed Minister of State for Science and Investment Security by Liz Truss in September 2022. Ea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Givan
Paul Jonathan Givan (born 12 October 1981) is a Northern Irish unionist politician who served as First Minister and deputy First Minister of Northern Ireland, First Minister of Northern Ireland from 2021 to 2022. A member of the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP), he has served as Department of Education (Northern Ireland), Minister of Education since 3 February 2024. Givan has been a Member of the Legislative Assembly (Northern Ireland), Member of the Legislative Assembly for Lagan Valley (Assembly constituency), Lagan Valley since 2010. Givan became First Minister on 17 June 2021, becoming the youngest person to hold that office. He resigned on 4 February 2022 as part of DUP protests against the Northern Ireland Protocol. From 2016 to 2017, Givan served as the Department for Communities, Minister for Communities in the Northern Ireland Executive under First Minister Arlene Foster. Givan has been associated with Social conservatism, socially conservative views and has been descri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Martin Reynolds (civil Servant)
Martin Alexander Baillie Reynolds is a British civil servant who served as Principal Private Secretary to Prime Minister Boris Johnson from 2019 to 2022. Reynolds previously served as British Ambassador to Libya under Prime Minister Theresa May and as the principal private secretary to Johnson when he served as Foreign Secretary in May's government. Early life Reynolds was born in Oxford, England. He was educated at Magdalen College School, Oxford, and Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, where he gained an undergraduate degree in law. Career Before entering government, Reynolds worked as a lawyer in London. From 1997, he worked at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office. Becoming a diplomat, Reynolds served at the British High Commission in Pretoria, South Africa as Deputy High Commissioner between July 2011 and November 2014. From December 2014 to January 2018, he was Principal Private Secretary to the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, for part o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dan Rosenfield
Daniel Robert Rosenfield, Baron Rosenfield (born 2 May 1977) is a British political adviser and civil servant who served as the Downing Street Chief of Staff from January 2021 to February 2022. Between July 2007 and April 2011, he served as the principal private secretary to chancellors Alistair Darling and George Osborne, and subsequently as a managing director for Bank of America Merrill Lynch. Early life and education Dan Rosenfield was born in Manchester on 2 May 1977, and attended Manchester Grammar School from 1988 to 1995, where he studied maths, French and German at A-level. After school, he spent a year in Israel on a kibbutz. Rosenfield's family later moved to London, where they were members of the North Western Reform Synagogue. He later attended University College London, where he read modern European studies from 1996 to 2000, specialising in German and philosophy. Career Rosenfield worked at HM Treasury from 2000 to 2011. In 2005 he was partly responsible ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jack Doyle (journalist)
Jack Doyle is a British journalist. He is a former Downing Street Director of Communications serving under Boris Johnson from April 2021 to February 2022. He resigned following his involvement in the Partygate scandal in which he attended a gathering that broke COVID-19 rules at the time. Career Doyle was formerly a home affairs correspondent at the Press Association. He held the same position at the ''Daily Mail'' from 2010, where he was a leader writer under the editorships of Paul Dacre and Geordie Greig. He left the role of the ''Daily Mail''s associate editor to become a press secretary at Downing Street in 2020. On 16 April 2021, it was announced to staff in Downing Street that he had been appointed to the post of director of communications. He succeeded James Slack, who became deputy editor of ''The Sun''. It was reported that Doyle had vetoed plans favoured by Allegra Stratton for daily televised press briefings to be held. On 23 April 2021, he was accused by Domini ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jimmy Savile
Sir James Wilson Vincent Savile (; 31 October 1926 – 29 October 2011) was an English media personality and DJ. He was known for his eccentric image, charitable work, and hosting the BBC shows ''Top of the Pops'' and ''Jim'll Fix It''. After his death, hundreds of Jimmy Savile sexual abuse scandal, allegations of sexual abuse made against him were investigated, tarnishing his reputation and leading the police to conclude that he was a predatory sex offender and possibly one of Britain's most prolific. quoting the head of the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children, NSPCC ("It's now looking possible that Jimmy Savile was one [of] the most prolific sex offenders the NSPCC has ever come across") and police ("We are dealing with alleged abuse on an unprecedented scale. The profile of this operation has empowered a staggering number of victims to come forward ... Police previously said Savile's alleged catalogue of sex abuse could have spanned six decades"). ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Number 10 Policy Unit
The Number 10 Policy Unit is a body of policymakers based in 10 Downing Street, providing policy advice directly to the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, British Prime Minister. Originally set up to support Harold Wilson in 1974, it has gone through a series of guises to suit the needs of successive prime ministers, staffed variously by political advisers, civil servants and more recently a combination of both. The current Director of the Number 10 Policy Unit is Stuart Ingham. Since 2010 The Coalition Government of May 2010 quickly disbanded two major parts of central infrastructure built by Tony Blair, the Prime Minister's Delivery Unit, Prime Minister's Delivery Unit (PMDU) and Prime Minister's Strategy Unit, Prime Minister's Strategy Unit (PMSU), as part of the Prime Minister's agenda to reduce the number of special advisers (UK government), special advisers and end the micromanagement of Whitehall. In their place, a strengthened Policy and Implementation Unit was launc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Munira Mirza
Munira Mirza (born May 1978) is a British political advisor who served as Director of the Number 10 Policy Unit under Prime Minister Boris Johnson from 2019 until she resigned in February 2022. She previously worked under Johnson as Deputy Mayor for Education and Culture when he was Mayor of London. Early life and education Mirza was born in Oldham, Greater Manchester, England. Her family came to the United Kingdom from Pakistan; her father found work in a factory while her mother was a housewife and taught Urdu part-time. She had two older brothers and an older sister. Mirza went to Breeze Hill School until 16, then moved to Oldham Sixth Form College for her A-levels. She was the only pupil in her Sixth Form college to gain a place at Oxford University, where she read English Literature at Mansfield College, graduating in 1999. In 2004 she received a Master of Arts in Social Research at the University of Kent followed by a PhD in Sociology under Frank Furedi in 2009. Career E ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Levelling Up Policy Of The Boris Johnson Government
"Levelling up" was a political policy first articulated in the 2019 Conservative Party manifesto that aimed to reduce the imbalances, primarily economic, between areas and social groups across the United Kingdom. It sought to do so without acting to the detriment of prosperous areas, such as much of South East England. A white paper for the policy was published by Boris Johnson's government on 2 February 2022, and was continued by Rishi Sunak's government. The policy was overseen by the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities. The concept of levelling up has bipartisan support. Keir Starmer, the Labour Party leader, said in October 2022 that a future Labour government would "pick up the challenge of levelling up", but that his party believed only they would be able to deliver it, calling Johnson's plan to deliver levelling up "an empty slogan". After the Labour Party won the 2024 general election, the phrase was replaced with "local government" in department ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
White Paper
A white paper is a report or guide that informs readers concisely about a complex issue and presents the issuing body's philosophy on the matter. It is meant to help readers understand an issue, solve a problem, or make a decision. Since the 1990s, this type of document has proliferated in business. Today, a business-to-business (B2B) white paper falls under grey literature, more akin to a marketing presentation meant to persuade customers and partners, and promote a certain product or viewpoint. The term originated in the 1920s to mean a type of position paper or industry report published by a department of the UK government. Corporate and academic The most prolific publishers of white papers are corporate and academic organizations. In larger organizations, internal technical writers produce these documents based on the outlines and data an internal industry or academic expert develops and provides. White papers often follow strict industry styles and formats with a centr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sue Gray (civil Servant)
Susan Ann Gray, Baroness Gray of Tottenham, (born 1957) is a British special adviser and former civil servant who served as Downing Street Chief of Staff under Prime Minister Keir Starmer from July to October 2024, having previously served under Starmer as Chief of Staff to the Leader of the Opposition from 2023 to 2024. She served from May 2021 to March 2023 as Second Permanent Secretary to the Cabinet Office, where she reported to the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster. Her report into the Partygate scandal criticised the government led by Boris Johnson and contributed to his resignation as Prime Minister in September 2022 and ultimately to leaving Parliament in June 2023. She resigned from the Civil Service in March 2023 to take up a job as Chief of Staff to the Leader of the Opposition, Keir Starmer. Her appointment provoked substantial controversy, and a Cabinet Office inquiry found that she had broken the Civil Service code. She was subject to scrutiny by the Advisor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
