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No directly set terms; however, they must maintain the support of the Georgian Parliament, which has a term of four years. Hong Kong: Chief Executive: 2 5 India: President: N/A 5 Prime Minister: No directly set terms; however, they must maintain the support of the Indian Parliament, which has a term of five years. Indonesia: President: 2 5 Vice ...
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 ...
The aptly named Short Parliament of England was the shortest parliament to sit in any of the United Kingdom’s constituent countries. It sat for just three weeks from 13 April until 5 May 1640. The shortest Parliament of the United Kingdom was the 3rd Parliament elected at the 1806 election. It sat for 138 days from 15 December 1806 until 27 ...
A term of office, electoral term, or parliamentary term is the length of time a person serves in a particular elected office. In many jurisdictions there is a defined limit on how long terms of office may be before the officeholder must be subject to re-election .
All Party Parliamentary Group Women in Parliament (July 2014). "Improving Parliament: Creating a Better and More Representative House" (PDF). House of Commons "Harman's office Thatcher U-turn". BBC News. London: BBC. 16 September 2009 "Women in Parliament and Government". House of Commons Library. 25 September 2019.
This is a list of parliaments of the United Kingdom, tabulated with the elections to the House of Commons and the list of members of the House. [1]The parliaments are numbered from the formation of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
Margaret Thatcher, in office for 11 years and 208 days between 1979 and 1990, is the longest-serving prime minister in modern history, [3] and the longest-serving prime minister officially referred to as such. [9] [10] William Gladstone is the only person to have served four separate terms.
Left Labour and Co-op, joined Change UK: Change UK: 2018 2019 (Crossed again) Left Change UK, joined the Liberal Democrats Liberal Democrats: 2019 2019: Defeated Conservative: Nicola Blackwood [ex] Oxford West and Abingdon: 2010: 2017: Defeated Conservative: Karen Bradley [aq] Staffordshire Moorlands: 2010: Serving Conservative: Angie Bray [ey ...