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Left Labour Party, joined the New Party New Party: 1931 1931: Retired Labour: Marion Phillips: Sunderland: 1929: 1931: Defeated Labour: Edith Picton-Turbervill [n] The Wrekin: 1929: 1931: Defeated Independent: Eleanor Rathbone [o] Combined English Universities: 1929: 1946: Died Labour: Lucy Noel-Buxton [p] North Norfolk & Norwich: 1930 & 1945: ...
This is a list of United Kingdom Labour and Co-operative Party MPs. It includes all Members of Parliament (MPs) elected to the British House of Commons representing the Co-operative Party from 1918 to 1927, and Labour and Co-operative Party since 1927. Members of the Scottish Parliament or the Senedd are not listed.
As of 2015, 117 Labour MPs have been elected to the House of Commons after being selected as candidates through an all-women shortlist. [22] In 2002 this method of selection was ruled to breach the Sex Discrimination Act 1975 .
This is a list of United Kingdom Labour Party MPs. It includes all members of Parliament (MPs) elected to the British House of Commons representing the Labour Party from 1900 to 1923 and since 1992. Members of the Scottish Parliament, the Senedd or the European Parliament are not listed.
Blair Babes or Blair's Babes was a term sometimes used to refer to the 101 female Members of Parliament (MPs) from the Labour Party elected to the House of Commons in Labour's landslide 1997 general election victory, after images of the new prime minister, Tony Blair, with 96 [1] of them on the steps of Church House in Westminster were widely publicised. [2]
She was featured in a Vogue article about 13 female Labour MPs who were elected. [56] During the Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip, she developed a significant media presence commenting on the situation in Gaza and UK arms exports to Israel. During this time she has become the MP receiving the most death threats and online abuse. [8] [57]
The names in italics are those who did not serve throughout this Parliament and the names with a * next to them are MPs who first entered Parliament in a by-election. This list does not include Labour Co-operative MPs. For Labour Co-operative MPs, see List of United Kingdom Labour Co-operative MPs (2005–2010)
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 ...