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Nick Clegg
Sir Nicholas William Peter Clegg (born 7 January 1967) is a British retired politician and media executive who served as Deputy Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 2010 to 2015 and as Leader of the Liberal Democrats from 2007 to 2015. He was Member of Parliament (United Kingdom), Member of Parliament (MP) for Sheffield Hallam (UK Parliament constituency), Sheffield Hallam from 2005 to 2017. An "The Orange Book, Orange Book" liberal, he has been associated with both socially liberal and economically liberal policies. Born in Buckinghamshire, Clegg was educated at Westminster School before going on to study at the University of Cambridge, University of Minnesota and College of Europe. He worked as a journalist for the ''Financial Times'' before becoming a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) in 1999. After his election to the House of Commons of the United Kingdom, House of Commons in 2005, Clegg served in a variety of leadership roles in the Liberal Democrats (UK), Lib ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Right Honourable
''The Right Honourable'' (abbreviation: The Rt Hon. or variations) is an honorific Style (form of address), style traditionally applied to certain persons and collective bodies in the United Kingdom, the former British Empire, and the Commonwealth of Nations. The term is predominantly used today as a style associated with the holding of certain senior public offices in the United Kingdom, Canada, New Zealand, and, to a lesser extent, Australia. ''Right'' in this context is an adverb meaning 'very' or 'fully'. Grammatically, ''The Right Honourable'' is an adjectival phrase which gives information about a person. As such, it is not considered correct to apply it in direct address, nor to use it on its own as a title in place of a name; but rather it is used in the Grammatical person, third person along with a name or noun to be modified. ''Right'' may be abbreviated to ''Rt'', and ''Honourable'' to ''Hon.'', or both. ''The'' is sometimes dropped in written abbreviated form, but is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Menzies Campbell
Walter Menzies Campbell, Baron Campbell of Pittenweem, (; born 22 May 1941), often known as Ming Campbell, is a Scottish politician, advocate and former athlete. A member of the Liberal Democrats, he was Member of Parliament (MP) for North East Fife from 1987 to 2015 and served as Leader of the Liberal Democrats from 2006 to 2007. Campbell held the British record for the 100-metre sprint from 1967 to 1974, having run the distance in 10.2 seconds. He captained the Great Britain athletics team in 1965–66. He has been Chancellor of the University of St Andrews since 2006 and a member of the House of Lords as a life peer since 2015. Education and early career Born in Glasgow, Campbell was educated at Hillhead High School and the University of Glasgow, graduating with a Scottish Master of Arts (MA) in 1962 and a Bachelor of Laws (LLB) in 1965. He was elected President of the Glasgow University Liberal Club in 1962, and of the Glasgow University Union for 1964–65. At ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chalfont St Giles
Chalfont St Giles is a village and civil parish in southeast Buckinghamshire, England. It is in a group of villages called The Chalfonts, which also includes Chalfont St Peter and Little Chalfont. It lies on the edge of the Chiltern Hills, west-northwest of Charing Cross, central London, and near Seer Green, Jordans, Buckinghamshire, Jordans, Chalfont St Peter, Little Chalfont and Amersham. The cockney rhyming slang term "chalfonts", meaning haemorrhoids (piles), is derived from the name of the village. The village has a duck pond that is fed by the River Misbourne. The village sign was designed and painted by Doreen Wilcockson ARCA in 2001. Chalfont St Giles is famous for the poet John Milton, Milton’s only surviving home. History In the Domesday Book of 1086, Chalfont St Giles and Chalfont St Peter were listed as separate Manors with different owners, called 'Celfunte'. They were separate holdings before the Norman Conquest. The Church of England parish church of Saint ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Kilroy-Silk
Robert Michael Kilroy-Silk (born Robert Michael Silk; 19 May 1942) is an English former politician and broadcaster. After a decade as a university lecturer, he served as a Labour Party Member of Parliament (MP) from 1974 to 1986. He left the House of Commons in 1986 in order to present a new BBC Television daytime talk show, '' Kilroy'', which ran until 2004. He returned to politics, serving as a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) from 2004 to 2009. He had a significant role in the mainstreaming of Eurosceptic politics in the UK and has been dubbed 'The Godfather of Brexit'. Early life Kilroy-Silk was born in Birmingham, son of William Silk, a Royal Navy leading stoker, and his wife Minnie Rose (''née'' Rooke). William Silk was lost at sea when aged 22, serving on , which was torpedoed and sunk off the coast of Brittany by German torpedo boats on 23 October 1943. His son was 17 months old. Robert's mother Rose remarried in 1946, to family friend John Francis Kilroy, a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
East Midlands (European Parliament Constituency)
East Midlands was a European Parliament constituencies in the United Kingdom, constituency of the European Parliament in the United Kingdom, established in 1999 with six members to replace single-member constituencies. Between 2009 and the Brexit, United Kingdom's withdrawal from the EU on 31 January 2020 it returned five Member of the European Parliament, MEPs, elected using the D'Hondt method of party-list proportional representation. Boundaries The constituency corresponded to the East Midlands region of England, comprising the counties of Derbyshire, Nottinghamshire, Leicestershire, Rutland, Northamptonshire and most of Lincolnshire. History The constituency was organised as a result of the European Parliamentary Elections Act 1999, replacing a number of single-member constituencies. These were Leicester (European Parliament constituency), Leicester, Northamptonshire and Blaby (European Parliament constituency), Northamptonshire and Blaby, Nottingham and Leicestershire ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Member Of The European Parliament
A member of the European Parliament (MEP) is a person who has been Election, elected to serve as a popular representative in the European Parliament. When the European Parliament (then known as the Common Assembly of the European Coal and Steel Community) first met in 1952, its members were directly appointed by the governments of member states from among those already sitting in their own national parliaments. Since 1979, however, MEPs have been elected by direct universal suffrage every five years. Each Member state of the European Union, member state establishes its own method for electing MEPs – and in some states this has changed over time – but the system chosen must be a form of proportional representation. Some member states elect their MEPs to represent a single national constituency; other states apportion seats to sub-national regions for election. There may also be non-voting observers when a Enlargement of the European Union, new country is seeking membershi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jared O'Mara
Jared Cain O'Mara (born 15 November 1981) is a British convicted fraudster and former Labour politician who was Member of Parliament (MP) for Sheffield Hallam from 2017 to 2019. Elected at the 2017 general election for the Labour Party, O'Mara unexpectedly won the seat from former Liberal Democrat Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg. In October 2017, it was revealed that O'Mara had posted misogynistic, racist and homophobic online comments before he became an MP. He resigned from the Women and Equalities Select Committee, and was suspended from the Labour Party. After being briefly reinstated, he resigned from the Labour Party in July 2018. He has cerebral palsy and hemiparesis, and later stated that he was the first autistic MP in history. O'Mara took lengthy periods of time off for mental health issues, and never asked an oral question in his two-year parliamentary career. He missed key Brexit votes in the House of Commons, and showed what was described by an aide as "vi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Allan
Richard Beecroft Allan, Baron Allan of Hallam (born 11 February 1966), is a British politician. He was the Liberal Democrat Member of Parliament for Sheffield Hallam from 1997 to 2005. He was made a life peer in the 2010 Dissolution Honours. Early life Allan was born in Sheffield. He went to the independent Oundle School in north-east Northamptonshire. He studied at Pembroke College, Cambridge, and gained a BA in Archaeology and Anthropology in 1988. From Bristol Polytechnic, he gained an MSc in Information Technology in 1990. He was a field archaeologist in Britain, France and the Netherlands in 1984–1985, and in Ecuador in 1988–1989. He was a computer manager at Avon FHSA in 1991–1997. Parliamentary career In 1997, Allan unseated Irvine Patnick of the Conservative Party achieving a majority of 8,221 with a swing of 15.3%. He was only the second non-Conservative to win Sheffield Hallam, and the first since 1918. In 2001, he was re-elected with an increased maj ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sheffield Hallam (UK Parliament Constituency)
Sheffield Hallam is a Constituencies of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, constituency represented in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom, House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2019 United Kingdom general election, 2019 by Olivia Blake of the Labour Party (UK), Labour Party. Constituency profile Hallam constituency extends from Stannington (ward), Stannington and Loxley, South Yorkshire, Loxley in the north to Dore, South Yorkshire, Dore in the south and includes small parts of the city centre in the east. It includes the wards of Crookes, Dore and Totley, Ecclesall, Fulwood, Sheffield, Fulwood and Stannington. A large proportion of Hallam is rural, spreading in the west into the Peak District National parks of the United Kingdom, National Park. It has relatively low unemployment (1.7% jobseekers claimants in May 2025), and a historically higher rate of owner occupancy, although the proportion of private renters has risen in the most recent census. Since the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chris Huhne
Christopher Murray Paul Huhne (born 2 July 1954) is a British energy and climate change consultant, and former journalist, business economist and politician who was the Liberal Democrats (UK), Liberal Democrat Member of Parliament for Eastleigh (UK Parliament constituency), Eastleigh from 2005 United Kingdom general election, 2005 to 2013 Eastleigh by-election, 2013 and the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change from 2010 to 2012. He is currently chair of the UK green gas association – the Anaerobic Digestion and Bioresources Association – and senior adviser to the World Biogas Association. He also advises companies on his particular interest in renewable technologies that can provide back up for intermittent energy sources like wind and solar. He formerly wrote weekly columns for ''The Guardian'', ''Independent on Sunday'' and ''Evening Standard''. From 1994 to 1999, he built up a business advising on the creditworthiness of countries which is now the sovereign ra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alistair Carmichael
Alexander Morrison "Alistair" CarmichaelFull name is given as "CARMICHAEL, Alexander Morrison, commonly known as Alistair Carmichael" in the returning officer'2010 general election declaration (born 15 July 1965) is a British politician who has been the Member of Parliament (United Kingdom), Member of Parliament (MP) for Orkney and Shetland (UK Parliament constituency), Orkney and Shetland since 2001 United Kingdom general election, 2001. A member of the Liberal Democrats (UK), Liberal Democrats, he previously served in the Cameron–Clegg coalition as Secretary of State for Scotland from 2013 to 2015 and as Chief Whip, Deputy Government Chief Whip from 2010 to 2013. He currently serves as the Chair of the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Select Committee. Carmichael served as Liberal Democrat Chief Whip of the House of Commons from 2010 to 2013. From 7 October 2013 to 8 May 2015, he was the Secretary of State for Scotland in the Cameron–Clegg coalition, Conservative-Lib De ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Liberal Democrat Home Affairs Spokesperson
The Liberal Democrat Home Affairs spokesperson is the spokesperson for the Liberal Democrats on matters relating to the work of the Home Secretary and Home Office. The office holder is a member of the Liberal Democrat frontbench team. The post exists when the Liberal Democrats are in opposition, but not when they in government, for example during the Cameron–Clegg coalition. The position is also sometimes called the Liberal Democrat shadow home secretary. List of Home Affairs spokespersons Spokespersons for Home Affairs in the House of Lords Spokespersons for the Liberal Democrats on Home Affairs in the House of Lords: See also * Liberal Democrat frontbench team The Liberal Democrats (UK), Liberal Democrats are a political party in the United Kingdom. While in Opposition (parliamentary), opposition, the Leader of the Liberal Democrats appoints a frontbench team of Member of Parliament (United Kingdom), ... References {{UK Liberal Democrats Home Affairs spokesman, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
