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East Thanet is a British parliamentary constituency in the Isle of Thanet in Kent, represented since 2024 by Polly Billington of the Labour Party.The seat previously existed, under the name Thanet East, from 1974 to 1983, returning one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.
Ramsgate is in the parliamentary constituency of East Thanet, which is represented by Labour MP Polly Billington. She won the seat in the 2024 general election, representing a Labour win after Craig Mackinlay held the seat for the Conservatives in the 2015 General Election. Before 2015 the MP for Ramsgate was Conservative Laura Sandys.
Polly Billington (born 1967) is a British Labour Party politician serving as Member of Parliament for East Thanet since 2024. Prior to her election she was an environmental campaigner and had worked as a broadcast journalist for the BBC before becoming a special advisor to Ed Miliband .
Polly Billington: Lab East Thanet: 1967 370 Jessica Toale: Lab Bournemouth West: 371 Yuan Yang: Lab Earley and Woodley: 1990 372 Brian Leishman: Lab Alloa and Grangemouth: 373 Adam Thompson: Lab Erewash: 30 Nov 1990: 374 Matt Bishop: Lab Forest of Dean: 375 Paul Foster: Lab
In the 2015 general election, Mackinlay was elected to the House of Commons in South Thanet a Conservative candidate, defeating Nigel Farage, then leader of UKIP. [8] As an MP, Mackinlay was a member of the Brexit Select Committee and the Common Sense Group. Mackinlay underwent a quadruple amputation following an infection of sepsis in 2023.
Mount Albion House - 22 Victoria Road, Ramsgate. Mount Albion House was built in 1798 by a local miller named John Marshall. [20] It was the home of Augusta Emma d'Este. Dr. John Collis Browne, the originator of the medicine Chlorodyne, died here on 30 August 1884 and is commemorated by a plaque.
Billington is a U.S. Navy captain now, and last month in San Diego the 46-year-old took command of a 684-foot, 25,000-ton warship that supports amphibious assaults, the USS John P. Murtha.
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.