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March 2025 United Kingdom Spring Statement
A spring budget statement was delivered to the House of Commons by Rachel Reeves, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, on 26 March 2025. Background The 2024 general election resulted in a Labour landslide. Rachel Reeves presented her first budget as Chancellor in October 2024. Subsequently, economic growth was less than expected and government bond yields and inflation rose. The spring statement was expected to focus on public finances, economic growth and the cost of living crisis. The proposed spending cuts were presented to the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) on 5 March. On 8 March, ITV News reported that large cuts would be in the statement. Keir Starmer said that he would be "ruthless" in cutting benefits on a visit to Ukraine. These cuts are intended to allow increased defence spending. The Chancellor ruled out further tax rises. Ministers have made the "moral case" for reform. Billions of pounds in welfare cuts were predicted. The government had described this as "r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of MPs Elected In The 2024 United Kingdom General Election
In the United Kingdom's 2024 United Kingdom general election, 2024 general election, 650 Member of Parliament (United Kingdom), members of Parliament were elected to the country's House of Commons (United Kingdom), House of Commons – one for each Constituencies of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, parliamentary constituency. The UK Parliament consists of the elected House of Commons, the House of Lords, and the Sovereign. The new Parliament first met on 9 July 2024. Of the 650 MPs elected, more than half (335) were new to Parliament. House of Commons composition The Conservative Party (UK), Conservative Party under Prime Minister Rishi Sunak lost over 240 seats and its 14-year long tenure in government. The Labour Party (UK), Labour Party formed a majority government under the leadership of Keir Starmer, winning over 400 seats. Other parties including the Liberal Democrats (UK), Liberal Democrats, Reform UK and the Green Party of England and Wales, Green Party saw an incr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John McDonnell
John Martin McDonnell (born 8 September 1951) is a British politician who served as Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer from 2015 to 2020. He has been the Member of Parliament (United Kingdom), Member of Parliament (MP) for Hayes and Harlington (UK Parliament constituency), Hayes and Harlington since 1997 United Kingdom general election, 1997, representing the Labour Party (UK), Labour Party until the Whip (politics), whip was withdrawn and his suspension on 23 July 2024 as a result of voting to scrap the two child benefit cap. McDonnell is on the political left and a member of the Socialist Campaign Group. He stood for the position of Leader of the Labour Party (UK), Labour Party leader following Tony Blair's resignation in 2007 Labour Party leadership election (UK), 2007, but failed to reach the required number of nominations. He was a candidate for the party leadership again in 2010 Labour Party leadership election (UK), 2010 following Gordon Brown's resignation after Labou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Allison Gardner
Allison Clare Elizabeth Gardner is a British Labour Party politician who has been the Member of Parliament for Stoke-on-Trent South since 2024. She gained the seat from Jack Brereton, a member of the Conservative Party. Education Gardner was educated at the University of Kent (BSc), the Open University (MSc) and the University of Leeds (PGCE).Allison Gardner's She completed her PhD in bioinformatics at the University of Manchester in 2016 where her research supervised by Andrew Doig and Simon Hubbard characterised and predicted amyloid mutations in proteins. Career Gardner works with the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence as a Senior Scientific Adviser for Artificial Intelligence. Previously, she taught science and personal, social, health and economic education (PSHE) in secondary schools. She was employed as a lecturer at Keele University where she led the degree apprenticeship programme in data science. She has research interests in the ethics of artifici ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stoke-on-Trent South (UK Parliament Constituency)
Stoke-on-Trent South is a constituency created in 1950, and represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2024 by Allison Gardner, a Labour party representative. Boundaries Historic 1950–1955: The County Borough of Stoke-on-Trent wards numbers 19 to 26. 1955–1983: The County Borough of Stoke-on-Trent wards numbers 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, and 24. 1983–2010: The City of Stoke-on-Trent wards of Blurton, Fenton Green, Great Fenton, Longton South, Meir Park, Trentham Park, and Weston. 2010–2024: The City of Stoke-on-Trent wards of Blurton, Fenton, Longton North, Longton South, Meir Park and Sandon, Trentham and Hanford, and Weston and Meir North. Current Under the 2023 Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies which came into effect for the 2024 general election, the constituency was defined as composing the following as they existed on 1 December 2020: *The Borough of Stafford wards of: Barlaston; Fulford; Swynnerton & Oulton. *The Distr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Pinto-Duschinsky
David Johnathan Pinto-Duschinsky (born June 1974) is a British Labour Party politician who has been the Member of Parliament for Hendon since 2024. His majority is currently the smallest of any MP elected in the 2024 general election at only 15 votes. Background Pinto-Duschinsky is the son of Holocaust survivor and scholar Michael Pinto-Duschinsky. He was educated at Magdalen College School and then Pembroke College, Oxford. He was President of the Oxford Union in 1995. He worked as a consultant at McKinsey & Company and then as a partner at Ernst & Young. In politics, Pinto-Duschinsky served as an adviser to the former Labour Chancellor Alistair Darling and Deputy Director of the Prime Minister's Strategy Unit prior to his election as an MP. Political career Pinto-Duschinsky first stood for election in the 2015 general election, running against George Osborne in the safe Conservative seat of Tatton, but did not win. In the 2019 general election, he stood for election i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Downing Street
Downing Street is a gated street in City of Westminster, Westminster in London that houses the official residences and offices of the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and the Chancellor of the Exchequer. In a cul-de-sac situated off Whitehall, it is long, and a few minutes' walk from the Houses of Parliament. Downing Street was built in the 1680s by Sir George Downing, 1st Baronet, Sir George Downing. For more than three hundred years, it has held the official residences of both the First Lord of the Treasury, the office now synonymous with that of the Prime Minister, and the Second Lord of the Treasury, the office held by the Chancellor of the Exchequer. The Prime Minister's official residence is 10 Downing Street, and the Chancellor's official residence is 11 Downing Street, Number 11. The government's Chief Whip has an official residence at 12 Downing Street, Number 12. Over time, government offices and officials came to occupy most of the street's townhouses. The house ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Burgon
Richard Burgon (born 19 September 1980) is a British politician who has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Leeds East since 2015. A member of the Labour Party, Burgon served as Shadow Secretary of State for Justice and Shadow Lord Chancellor in the Shadow Cabinet of Jeremy Corbyn from 2016 to 2020. Burgon read English Literature at St John's College, Cambridge, where he was chairman of the Cambridge University Labour Club. After working as an employment lawyer, he was elected as the MP for Leeds East at the 2015 general election. Burgon was appointed as Shadow Economic Secretary to the Treasury (City Minister) in September 2015 by new Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn. Burgon was promoted to Shadow Justice Secretary in June 2016 following the organised mass resignations in protest against the leadership of Corbyn. He was a candidate in the 2020 Labour Party deputy leadership election. He was dismissed from the Shadow Cabinet in April 2020 after Keir Starmer became Labo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ed Davey
Sir Edward Jonathan Davey (born 25 December 1965) is a British politician who has served as the Leader of the Liberal Democrats, leader of the Liberal Democrat party since 2020. He served in the Cameron–Clegg coalition as Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change from 2012 to 2015 and as Deputy leader of the Liberal Democrats, Deputy Leader to Jo Swinson in 2019. An The Orange Book, "Orange Book" liberal, he has been Member of Parliament (United Kingdom), Member of Parliament (MP) for Kingston and Surbiton (UK Parliament constituency), Kingston and Surbiton since 2017, a seat he previously held from 1997 to 2015. Davey was born in Mansfield, Nottinghamshire. After both his parents died before he was 16, Davey was raised by his grandparents, and subsequently attended Nottingham High School. He then went on to study at Jesus College, Oxford, and Birkbeck, University of London. He worked as an economics researcher and financial analyst before being elected to the House ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Prime Minister's Questions
Prime Minister's Questions (PMQs, officially known as Questions to the Prime Minister, while colloquially known as Prime Minister's Question Time) is a constitutional convention (political custom), constitutional convention in the United Kingdom, currently held as a single session every Wednesday at noon when the House of Commons of the United Kingdom, House of Commons is sitting, during which the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, prime minister answers questions from members of Parliament (MPs). The Institute for Government has described PMQs as "the most distinctive and internationally famous feature of British politics." In the legislatures of the Devolution in the United Kingdom, devolved nations of the UK, the equivalent procedure is known as First Minister's Questions. History Although prime ministers have answered questions in parliament for centuries, until the 1880s, questions to the prime minister were treated the same as questions to other ministers of the Crown: ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mind (charity)
Mind is a mental health charity in England and Wales. It was founded in 1946 as the National Association for Mental Health (NAMH). Mind offers information and advice to people with mental health problems and lobbies government and local authorities on their behalf. It also works to raise public awareness and understanding of issues relating to mental health. Since 1982, it has awarded an annual prize for "Book of the Year" having to do with mental health, in addition to three other prizes. Since 2008 Mind has hosted the annual Mind Media Awards, celebrating the best portrayals and reporting of mental health across the media. Around 125 local Mind associations (independent, affiliated charities) provide services such as supported housing, floating support schemes, care homes, drop-in centres and self-help support groups. They are each governed by their own board of trustees and raise their own funds to deliver services, including commonly through providing services on behalf of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Scope (charity)
Scope (previously known as the National Spastics Society) is a disability charity in England and Wales that campaigns to change negative attitudes about disability, provides direct services, and educates the public. The organisation was founded in 1952 by a group of parents and social workers who wanted to ensure that their disabled children had the right to a decent education. Originally focused on cerebral palsy, Scope now embraces all conditions and impairment. Scope subscribes to the social model of disability rather than the medical model of disability – that a person is disabled by the barriers placed in front of them by society, not because of their condition or impairment. History Scope was founded as the National Spastics Society on 9 October 1951 by Ian Dawson-Shepherd, Eric Hodgson, Alex Moira and a social worker, Jean Garwood, with the aim of improving and expanding services for people with cerebral palsy. From 1955 to 1989, the society ran the Thomas Delarue ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Trussell Trust
Trussell is an NGO and charity that works to end the need for food banks in the United Kingdom. It "is based on, shaped, and guided by Christian principles" and supports a network of over 1,200 food bank centres to provide emergency food and compassionate, practical support to people in crisis, while campaigning for long-term change to the structural issues that lock people into poverty. Its main office is in Salisbury, England. History The Trussell Trust was founded in 1997 by Paddy and Carol Henderson using a legacy left by Carol's mother, Betty Trussell. Initially, the charity worked in Bulgaria to improve conditions for children sleeping at Sofia Central Railway Station. In 2000, they began to work in the UK too, opening the first food bank in their home city of Salisbury after they were contacted by a British mother who was struggling to feed her children. In 2024 the organisation changed its name to Trussell and underwent a brand refresh. Work Food banks Today, the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
