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Labour: Carmarthen: 1957: 1966: Died Labour: Cynthia Mosley [m] Stoke-on-Trent: 1929: 1931 (Crossed the floor) 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 ...
Timeline of female MPs in the House of Commons; All-women shortlists; Election results of women in United Kingdom general elections (1918–1945) Parliament (Qualification of Women) Act 1918; Records of members of parliament of the United Kingdom § Women; Women in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom; Widow's succession
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]
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 .
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. Only official Labour and Co-operative MPs who have been formally endorsed by both parties are ...
Labour’s total of 412 MPs is the party’s third best ever performance in terms of seats won, just behind the 413 it achieved in 2001 and a few short of the record 419 Labour MPs elected in 1997 ...
Labour: Elaine Burton, Baroness Burton of Coventry [5] 13 April 1962 1981: Resigned from the Labour Party, joined the SDP Life peeress SDP: 1981: 3 March 1988: SDP merged into Liberal Democrats, sat as a crossbencher Crossbench: 3 March 1988 6 October 1991 Conservative: Rosina MacNamee, 24th Baroness Audley: 31 July 1963 24 October 1974 ...
Jessica Rose Phillips (née Trainor; born 9 October 1981) is a British politician who has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Birmingham Yardley since 2015. A member of the Labour Party, she has served as Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Safeguarding and Violence Against Women and Girls since July 2024.