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Catholics In The Conservative Party
Catholics in the Conservative Party (CITCP) is an organisation within the British Conservative Party which promotes the interests of Catholics in the United Kingdom and their participation in public life. Established in 2019, and originally chaired by Andrew Cusack and Frances Lasok, CITCP has carried out its activities to promote the participation of Catholics within the Conservative Party by organising talks on Catholic social doctrine, canvassing for Catholic candidates during local and national elections, and promoting causes which directly affect the United Kingdom's Catholic population. Like many organisations in the Conservative party, the group also has adopted a number of parliamentary patrons, both in the House of Commons and the House of Lords. Since its official launch in January 2023, with an event attended by Sir Iain Duncan Smith and Damian Hinds and featuring Sir Jacob Rees-Mogg as a speaker, CITCP organises events for Catholic members, supporters, and vote ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Conservatism
Conservatism is a Philosophy of culture, cultural, Social philosophy, social, and political philosophy and ideology that seeks to promote and preserve traditional institutions, Convention (norm), customs, and Value (ethics and social sciences), values. The central tenets of conservatism may vary in relation to the culture and civilization in which it appears. In Western culture, depending on the particular nation, conservatives seek to promote and preserve a range of institutions, such as the nuclear family, organized religion, the military, the nation-state, property rights, rule of law, aristocracy, and monarchy. Conservatives tend to favor institutions and practices that enhance social order and historical continuity. The 18th-century Anglo-Irish statesman Edmund Burke, who opposed the French Revolution but supported the American Revolution, is credited as one of the forefathers of conservative thought in the 1790s along with Savoyard statesman Joseph de Maistre. The first ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Member Of Parliament (United Kingdom)
In the United Kingdom, a Member of Parliament (MP) is an individual elected to serve in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom, House of Commons, the lower house of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. Electoral system All 650 members of the UK House of Commons are elected using the first-past-the-post voting system in single member United Kingdom Parliament constituencies, constituencies across the whole of the United Kingdom, where each constituency has its own single representative. Elections All MP positions become simultaneously vacant for elections held on a five-year cycle, or when a snap election is called. Since the Dissolution and Calling of Parliament Act 2022, Parliament is automatically dissolved once five years have elapsed from its first meeting after an election. If a Vacancy (economics), vacancy arises at another time, due to death or Resignation from the British House of Commons, resignation, then a constituency vacancy may be filled by a by-election. Un ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Conservative Christian Fellowship
The Conservative Christian Fellowship (CCF) is an organisation working within the British Conservative Party. Established in 1990 by Tim Montgomerie and David Burrowes, while they were students at Exeter University, the organisation supports Christians in the Conservative Party. The CCF organises events and meetings for the party and its supporters across the UK. It is also an active participant in the cross-party group Christians in Politics, which include Christian MPs in the UK. Organisation The CCF's headquarters are at the Conservative Campaign Headquarters in Westminster, but it is funded solely by its supporters. Its previous executive directors include Gareth Wallace, Tim Montgomerie, Paul Woolley, Elizabeth Berridge and Colin Bloom. As of August 2016, its current chair A chair is a type of seat, typically designed for one person and consisting of one or more legs, a flat or slightly angled seat and a back-rest. It may be made of wood, metal, or synthetic ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bill Cash
Sir William Nigel Paul Cash (born 10 May 1940) is a British politician who served as a member of Parliament (MP) from 1984 to 2024. A member of the Conservative Party, he was first elected for Stafford and then for Stone in Staffordshire in 1997. Cash is a prominent Eurosceptic. Following his tenth election victory in the 2019 general election, aged 79, Cash became the oldest sitting member of the House of Commons. Cash was the founder of the Maastricht Referendum Campaign in the early 1990s, and was the elected Chair of the House of Commons' European Scrutiny Committee. He has also served as a vice-president of the Eurosceptic pressure group Conservatives for Britain, and to this day is one of the strongest critics of the European Union from the Conservative Party. In June 2023, he announced his intention to stand down at the 2024 general election. Cash was appointed a Knight Bachelor in the 2014 Birthday Honours for political services. He was appointed to the Order o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexander Stafford
Alexander Paul Thomas Stafford (born 19 July 1987) is a British politician and published historian who served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Rother Valley from 2019 to 2024. He was the first Conservative to be elected for the seat. In the 2024 general election, he lost his seat to Jake Richards of the Labour Party. Early life and career Stafford grew up in Ealing Broadway, went to St Benedict's School, Ealing on a choral scholarship and was part of the Ealing Youth Orchestra. His mother was a magistrate and his father worked for a US technology company. His maternal grandmother was a Polish East German refugee, while his maternal grandfather was a Polish Ukrainian refugee who volunteered to serve in the British Army when the Soviet Union joined the Allies, having previously spent time imprisoned in a Siberian Gulag camp. Stafford studied History at St Benet's Hall, Oxford where he served as president of the Oxford University Conservative Association (in Michaelmas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marco Longhi
Marco Andrea Longhi (born 22 April 1967) is a British politician who served as the Conservative Member of Parliament (MP) for Dudley North from 2019 to 2024. In January 2025, he defected to Reform UK. Since 2024 he has served as President of Turning Point UK. Early life and career Marco Longhi was born on 22 April 1967 in Walsall and grew up in Rome, the son of an Italian airline worker, Antonio Longhi, and a British mother, Josephine Clarke. He trained as a pilot and later studied at the University of Manchester, following this by working for a time in civil engineering. He then worked in the oil and gas industry, which included five years in South America. Parliamentary career In 1999, Longhi was elected as a Conservative councillor in Walsall (where his grandfather Wilfred Clarke had been Mayor in 1978), and became Mayor in 2017 and again in 2018. At the 2005 general election Longhi unsuccessfully ran for election in Dudley South, finishing second with 34.5% of the vote ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eddie Hughes (British Politician)
Edmund Francis Hughes (born 3 October 1968) is a British Conservative Party politician who served in the Second Johnson ministry as Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Rough Sleeping and Housing from 2021 to 2022. He was Member of Parliament (MP) for Walsall North from 2017 to 2024. He was appointed Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Rough Sleeping and Housing by Boris Johnson in January 2021, due to the resignation of Kelly Tolhurst. He returned to the backbenches following the formation of the Truss ministry in September 2022. Early life and career Hughes was born on 3 October 1968 in Birmingham, England. His parents were Irish immigrants, his mother from the McNally family from Louisburgh Co. Mayo. His father was a bus driver and his mother was a cleaner. He has five brothers and attended Handsworth Grammar School (now King Edward VI Handsworth Grammar School for Boys). Hughes studied civil engineering at the University of Glamorgan. He was a director o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sally-Ann Hart
Sally-Ann Hart (born 6 March 1968) is a British politician who was the member of parliament (MP) for Hastings and Rye from 2019 to 2024. A member of the Conservative Party, she succeeded Amber Rudd, the former home secretary. Early life and career Hart grew up in Hexham, Northumberland. She studied geography at King's College London before qualifying as a lawyer and working for a law firm in the City of London. She went on to become a solicitor and then a magistrate in Hastings with a focus on family law, and she has cited this work as one of her motivations for becoming a member of parliament. Before her election as an MP, Hart was a magistrate in Hastings. Political career Councillor The first elected position Hart was elected to was as a councillor representing the Eastern Rother ward on Rother District Council in East Sussex. First elected in 2015, she was re-elected in 2019. On the council, Hart held the position of cabinet member for tourism and culture. Member of par ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chris Green (politician)
Christopher Patrick James Green (born 12 August 1973) is a British Conservative Party politician who served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Bolton West from 2015 until 2024. He was re-elected in 2017 and 2019, increasing his majority and vote share at both general elections. He lost the seat in the 2024 general election. In August 2019, he was appointed as a Parliamentary Private Secretary in the Department for Education. Following the 2019 general election, he was appointed as a Parliamentary Private Secretary to Baroness Evans, Leader of the House of Lords and Lord Privy Seal. He stepped down from this position on 13 October 2020 due to his disagreement with the government's approach to coronavirus restrictions and was a steering committee member of the lockdown-sceptic COVID Recovery Group, a group of Conservative MPs who oppose the UK government's December 2020 lockdown. Early life Green was born on 12 August 1973 in Northern Ireland during The Troubles, while his ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Greg Stafford (politician)
Gregory James Stafford is a British Conservative Party politician who has served as the Member of Parliament for Farnham and Bordon since 2024. He is a member of the Health and Social Care Select Committee and an Opposition Assistant Whip. Stafford served as councillor in the London Borough of Ealing from 2007 to 2024, and was both leader of the Conservatives group and Leader of the Opposition from 2014 until 2022. He was Chairman of Conservative Future in West London. His younger brother, Alexander Stafford, served as Conservative MP for Rother Valley from 2019 to 2024. Early life and education Born in Queen Charlotte's and Chelsea Hospital, he attended St Benedict's School, a Catholic independent school, and later studied Modern History at St Peter's College, Oxford. He has familial ties to his seat, with his father's family originally coming from Haslemere, a town in which his grandparents owned the former ''Stafford's Sweet Shop''. Stafford's mother's family im ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edward Leigh
Sir Edward Julian Egerton Leigh (born 20 July 1950) is a British Conservative Party politician who has been serving as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Gainsborough, previously Gainsborough and Horncastle, since 1983. Parliament's longest-serving MP since 2024, Leigh is styled Father of the House and, in July 2024, acted as a Temporary Deputy Speaker of the House of Commons. Leigh has a reputation at Westminster for his independence of mind as a "serial rebeller", who is prepared to vote against his own political party if it conflicts with his own principles. He was one of the original Maastricht Rebels and was reportedly sacked for organising Euro-rebels among ministers. In 2003 Leigh opposed military intervention in Iraq; he has since called for those who voted for the Iraq War, and are still seeking to justify their support for it, to be held to account. He served as the Chairman of the Public Accounts Committee from 2001 to 2010, investigating government waste a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Balfe
Richard Andrew Balfe, Baron Balfe (born 14 May 1944) is a British politician and life peer. He was a Labour Party Member of the European Parliament (MEP) from 1979 but joined the Conservative Party in 2002. Early life and career Born in Barton Mills, Mildenhall, Suffolk, Balfe spent time in a children's home in Sheffield. He began working in a bakery in 1960 and joined USDAW. The following year, he moved to London and worked first for the Crown Agents for Overseas Governments, then at the Foreign Office, before studying at the London School of Economics. In the 1970 general election, while a student, Balfe stood as the Labour Party candidate in Paddington South. He was unsuccessful, and instead became the Research Officer for the Finer Committee on One-Parent Families.Christine Buckley,Why some unions still see red when wooed by Richard Balfe, ''The Times'', 13 April 2009 Political career At the 1973 Greater London Council election, Balfe was elected in Dulwich, se ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
