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Labour Whip
A chief whip of the Labour Party oversees the whipping system in the Labour Party, and is responsible for ensuring that Labour members of Parliament (MPs) or members of the House of Lords attend and vote in the Parliament of the United Kingdom in the way desired by the party leadership. The two chief whips, one in the House of Commons and one in the House of Lords, also help to organise their party's contribution to parliamentary business. Each chief whip manages a team of whips, whom they may appoint from the Parliamentary Labour Party, to support the work of the whips' office. The party leadership may allow members to have a free vote on a measure, based on their own opinion rather than party policy, without requiring the whips to influence the way members vote. The functions of whips are kept confidential, as they are concerned with the discipline of their party's Members of Parliament. By convention, Chief Whips do not sign early day motions, table questions to Ministe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Whip (politics)
A whip is an official of a political party whose task is to ensure party discipline (that members of the party vote according to the party platform rather than their constituents, conscience vote, individual conscience or donors) in a legislature. Whips are the party's "enforcers". They work to ensure that their fellow political party legislators attend voting sessions and vote according to their party's official policy. Members who vote against party policy may "lose the whip", being expelled from the party. The term is said to be taken from the "wikt:whipper-in, whipper-in" during a hunt, who tries to prevent hounds from wandering away from a hunting pack. The term may more reasonably have been taken from the practice of "keeping discipline" in slaves by cracking a leather whip over their heads. Additionally, the term "whip" may mean the voting instructions issued to legislators, or the status of a certain legislator in their party's parliamentary grouping. Etymology ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frank Walter Goldstone
Sir Frank Walter Goldstone (7 December 1870 – 25 December 1955) was a British teacher, trade unionist and politician. Biography Goldstone was born in Bishopwearmouth, County Durham (now Sunderland) on 7 December 1870. The third son of a stained-glass artist, he attended Borough Road Traininge College, Isleworth after completing education at Diamond Hall in Millfield. From 1891 to 1910, Goldstone was an assistant master at Bow Street school in Sheffield. In 1895, he had married Elizabeth Alice Henderson of Whittingham, Northumberland. They had two children, Elsie (born 1897) and Frank (born 1899). A member of the National Union of Teachers (NUT), he became president of the subgroup National Federation of Class Teachers in 1902, a member of the executive committee of the NUT in 1902 and chair of its law committee in 1904. In 1910, he stepped up his participation in the NUT, serving as organization secretary (1910–1918), assistant secretary (1918–1924) and finally general ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Blaydon (UK Parliament Constituency)
Blaydon was a List of United Kingdom Parliament constituencies, constituency represented in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom, House of Commons from 2017 United Kingdom general election, 2017 until its abolition for the 2024 United Kingdom general election, 2024 general election by Liz Twist of the Labour Party (UK), Labour Party. Constituency profile The seat was a safe seat for the Labour Party (UK), Labour Party from 1935 until its abolition. Historically, the area's economy relied on coal mining from the Victorian Britain, Victorian period until the decline of mining in the latter half of the 20th century. By 2024, the economy was supported by engineering and service industries on Tyneside, and agriculture. It also included the MetroCentre (shopping centre), Metrocentre, the second-largest shopping centre in the UK. The constituency was on the western upland outskirts of Gateshead and with communities separated by buffer zone, green buffers. It comprised the town ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Whiteley (politician)
William Whiteley (3 October 1882 – 3 November 1955) was the Labour Member of Parliament (MP) for Blaydon in County Durham. Early life William Whiteley, not to be confused with the founder of the Department Store of the same name, was a Durham miner by background and a lodge official. He was an active trade unionist and member of the Labour Party. Political career He stood unsuccessfully in Blaydon for Labour in the 1918 general election, but was successful in the election four years later. He went on to be the MP for Blaydon from 1922 to 1931. His defeat in the 1931 general election followed the events of that summer when Ramsay MacDonald quit the Labour Party to form a National Government and the election called in October that year reduced the Labour representation to a rump of 52 MPs. However Whiteley was re-elected at the 1935 general election and went on to represent the constituency for the next twenty years until his death in 1955 at the age of 74. In the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bedwellty (UK Parliament Constituency)
Bedwellty was a county constituency in Monmouthshire (historic), Monmouthshire which returned one Member of Parliament (United Kingdom), Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons of the United Kingdom, House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1918 United Kingdom general election, 1918 until it was abolished for the 1983 United Kingdom general election, 1983 general election. It was then largely replaced by the new Islwyn (UK Parliament constituency), Islwyn constituency. Boundaries On its creation in 1918 the constituency consisted of the Urban district (Great Britain and Ireland), urban districts of Bedwas and Machen, Bedwellty, Mynyddislwyn and Risca and the civil parish of Rogerstone in St Mellons Rural District.Schedule 9 to the Representation of the People Act, 1918 (7 & 8 Geo. 5. C.64) These areas had previously been divided between the West Monmouthshire and South Monmouthshire constituencies. The House of Commons (Redistribution of Seats) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Edwards (MP For Bedwellty)
Sir Charles Edwards (19 February 1867 – 15 June 1954) was a Labour Party politician in the United Kingdom. Edwards initially served as an Assistant Miners' Agent in the Blackwood Offices of the South Wales Miners%27 Federation where he and his wife lived in the attached housing accommodation. Afterwards they moved to Risca. Edwards was elected at the 1918 general election as Member of Parliament (MP) for the newly-created Bedwellty constituency in Monmouthshire. He held the seat until he retired from Parliament at the 1950 general election. Edwards was made a Privy Councillor in 1940. And from 1940 to 1942 he was government chief whip The Chief Whip is a political leader whose task is to enforce the whipping system, which aims to ensure that legislators who are members of a political party attend and vote on legislation as the party leadership prescribes. United Kingdom I ... in the war-time Coalition Government. References * {{DEFAULTSORT:Edw ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kirkcaldy Burghs (UK Parliament Constituency)
Kirkcaldy Burghs was a burgh constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom (Westminster) from 1832 to 1974. It elected one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first-past-the-post voting system. From 1832 to 1950 it was, officially, a district of burghs constituency. Boundaries 1885–1918 Comprising Kirkcaldy, Burntisland, Dysart, Kinghorn and the Municipal Burgh of Kirkcaldy not included in the old Parliamentary Burgh (except that portion within the Parliamentary Borough of Dysart).Debrett's House of Commons and the Judicial Bench, 1886 1918–1949 The burghs of Kirkcaldy, Buckhaven, Methil and Innerleven, Burntisland, Dysart and Kinghorn Kinghorn (; ) is a town and parish in Fife, Scotland. A seaside resort with two beaches, Kinghorn Beach and Pettycur Bay, plus a fishing port, it stands on the north shore of the Firth of Forth, opposite Edinburgh. Known as the place where K .... Members of Parliament Election results 1832–18 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tom Kennedy (Kirkcaldy MP)
Thomas Kennedy (25 December 1874 – 3 March 1954) was a British Labour politician. Biography Kennedy was born in Kennethmont, Aberdeenshire, and became a railway clerk. He joined the Social Democratic Federation (SDF) and soon became its organiser for Aberdeen, standing for Parliament in Aberdeen North in the 1906 and January 1910 general elections. He supported the SDF's formation of the British Socialist Party (BSP) and became its National Organiser in 1913, but in 1914 left to fight in World War I. As a supporter of the War, he left the BSP in 1916 to join the new National Socialist Party. He became the editor of the ''Social Democrat'', successor to ''Justice''. His first wife, Christian Farquharson, whom he married in 1905, was also a socialist, having attended the International Socialist Congress in Paris in 1900. She died in 1917 and he subsequently remarried. He was Labour Member of Parliament (MP) for Kirkcaldy Burghs from 1921 to 1922, from 1923 to 1931 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Burnley (UK Parliament Constituency)
Burnley is a List of United Kingdom Parliament constituencies, constituency centred on the town of Burnley in Lancashire which has been represented since 2024 United Kingdom general election, 2024 by Oliver Ryan (politician), Oliver Ryan, who currently sits as an Independent politician, independent after being suspended from the Labour Party (UK), Labour Party. History The seat was created in 1868. Except for 1931, it was won by Labour candidates from World War I until 2010, generally on safe, large majorities; Ann Widdecombe failed to take the seat from the Labour Party in 1979. The closest second place was to a Conservative Party candidate, Ian Bruce (politician), Ian Bruce, who came 787 votes (1.6%) short of taking the seat in 1983 United Kingdom general election, 1983. Burnley saw strong opposition support for the Liberal Democrats in 2005 United Kingdom general election, 2005, moving into second place; meanwhile a local independent pushed Yousuf Miah, a Conservative Party ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bishop Auckland (UK Parliament Constituency)
Bishop Auckland is a Constituencies of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, constituency in County Durham that is represented in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom, House of Commons since 2024 United Kingdom general election, 2024 by Sam Rushworth of the Labour Party (UK), Labour Party. Constituency profile The constituency is located in an upland, western part of County Durham in the North East England, North East of England. The constituency includes as its major settlements the towns of Barnard Castle, Bishop Auckland, Shildon, Middleton-in-Teesdale, Crook, County Durham, Crook, Tow Law, Stanhope, County Durham, Stanhope and Wolsingham, with their surrounding villages, dales and fields. The seat is named for the market town of Bishop Auckland which has a mixed modern and historic high street. It also includes the similarly sized Barnard Castle, together with large areas used for agriculture, particularly hill farming on the rolling landscape that cuts into the Pennine ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ben Spoor
Benjamin Charles Spoor (2 June 1878 – 22 December 1928), OBE, was a British Labour Party politician. He took a particular interest in India. Born in Witton Park, County Durham, he went to Elmfield College, York, and came from a family of Primitive Methodists. An engineer by training, he later went into business as a builder's merchant. Before entering politics, he was a lay preacher in the Methodist Church. At the 1918 general election, he was elected as Member of Parliament for Bishop Auckland, and held the seat until his death at the age of fifty. In Parliament, he found himself at odds with many Labour MPs and contemplated joining the Liberal Party. He was the Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasury and Chief Whip in 1924, when he was made a Privy Councillor. He had suffered from poor health since contracting malaria at Salonika during World War I. On a visit to London in December 1928, he was found dead in bed at the Regent Palace Hotel. At the inquest, his son ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Widnes (UK Parliament Constituency)
Widnes ( ) is an industrial town in the Borough of Halton, Cheshire, England, which at the 2021 census had a population of 62,400. Historically in Lancashire, it is on the northern bank of the River Mersey where the estuary narrows to form the Runcorn Gap. Directly to the south across the Mersey is the town of Runcorn. Upstream to the east is Warrington, and 4 miles downstream to the west is Speke, a suburb of Liverpool. Before the Industrial Revolution, Widnes was a small settlement on marsh and moorland. In 1847, the chemist and industrialist John Hutchinson established a chemical factory at Spike Island. The town grew in population and rapidly became a major centre of the chemical industry. The demand for labour was met by large-scale immigration from Ireland, Poland, Lithuania and Wales. The town continues to be a major manufacturer of chemicals, although many of the chemical factories have closed and the economy is predominantly based upon service industries. W ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
