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30 May 2024 Reform UK: Peter Storms Bournemouth West: Online comments. [184] 31 May 2024 Reform UK: Andrew Medley Broxtowe: Reason unknown. [185] 3 June 2024 Reform UK: Tony Mack Clacton: Deselected in favour of party leader Nigel Farage. Mack stood as an independent candidate in the same seat. [186] 4 June 2024 Labour: Darren Rodwell Barking
Prime Minister; Jean Lambert (b. 1950) Female Principal Speaker 1992 1993 Major: Jan Clark: Female Principal Speaker 1993 1995 Peg Alexander: Female Principal Speaker 1995 1997 Jean Lambert (b. 1950) Female Principal Speaker 1998 1999 Blair: Margaret Wright (1940–2012) Female Principal Speaker 1999 2003 Caroline Lucas (b. 1960) Female ...
Sixty-eight women have been appointed to positions in the Cabinet of the United Kingdom, with three female Prime Ministers serving in cabinet.Since, by convention, members of the cabinet must be a member of either the House of Commons or House of Lords, [1] the Prime Minister could not appoint women to the cabinet until the Parliament (Qualification of Women) Act 1918 allowed women to stand ...
Liz Truss announced her resignation on Thursday after only 45 days in office, making her the shortest-serving U.K. prime minister in history. As a result, members of the Conservative Party’s ...
1.1 List of female Prime Ministers. ... Election results of women in United Kingdom general elections (1918–1945) ... This page was last edited on 12 December 2024, ...
Both Reform UK and the Green Party also gained from the Conservatives. Liz Truss lost her own seat of South West Norfolk to Labour. [ 6 ] The only Conservative gain in England was Leicester East , where a split Labour vote between the official labour candidate and former Labour MPs Claudia Webbe and Keith Vaz depressed the Labour vote.
The United Kingdom has had three female Prime Ministers: Margaret Thatcher (1979–1990), Theresa May (2016–2019), and Liz Truss (2022). The publication of the book Women in the House by Elizabeth Vallance in 1979 highlighted the under-representation of women in Parliament. [1]
The 2024 United Kingdom general election was held on Thursday, 4 July 2024, to elect 650 members of Parliament to the House of Commons, the lower house of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. The opposition Labour Party, led by Keir Starmer, defeated the governing Conservative Party, led by Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, in a landslide victory.