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2022 In British Politics
A list of events relating to politics and government in the United Kingdom during 2022. Events January *12 January **The High Court rules that the government's use of a "VIP lane" to award contracts for personal protective equipment (PPE) to two companies was unlawful. **Partygate: At Prime Minister's Questions, Boris Johnson confirms he did attend a party in the No 10 garden during the first lockdown in May 2020 and offers his "heartfelt apology". Opposition MPs and the leader of the Scottish Conservatives Douglas Ross call for his resignation. *19 January – Conservative MP Christian Wakeford crosses the house to Labour, after submitting a letter of no confidence in Boris Johnson in light of the "partygate" scandal. *20 January – Conservative MP William Wragg accuses whips of blackmail against Conservative MPs who are believed to support the ousting of Johnson. The Speaker, Sir Lindsay Hoyle, tells the Commons that potentially criminal offences would be a matter for t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2022 United Kingdom Electoral Calendar
This is a list of elections in the United Kingdom scheduled to be held in 2022. Included are local elections, by-elections on any level, referendums and internal party elections. Leadership elections * 5 September – July–September 2022 Conservative Party leadership election * 7 September – 2022 Green Party of England and Wales deputy leadership election * 24 October – October 2022 Conservative Party leadership election February * 24 February – Council by-election in Wickham Bishops and Woodham ward for Maldon District Council. March * 3 March – Paulette Hamilton wins the 2022 Birmingham Erdington by-election. May * 5 May – ** 2022 United Kingdom local elections: The Conservatives suffer a net loss of 485 seats, which includes the London boroughs of Barnet, Wandsworth, and Westminster, formerly considered Tory strongholds. Labour gain than 108 seats, while the Liberal Democrats gain 240. The Green Party has one of its best ever results, with a net g ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
House Of Lords
The House of Lords, also known as the House of Peers, is the upper house of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. Membership is by appointment, heredity or official function. Like the House of Commons, it meets in the Palace of Westminster in London, England. The House of Lords scrutinises bills that have been approved by the House of Commons. It regularly reviews and amends bills from the Commons. While it is unable to prevent bills passing into law, except in certain limited circumstances, it can delay bills and force the Commons to reconsider their decisions. In this capacity, the House of Lords acts as a check on the more powerful House of Commons that is independent of the electoral process. While members of the Lords may also take on roles as government ministers, high-ranking officials such as cabinet ministers are usually drawn from the Commons. The House of Lords does not control the term of the prime minister or of the government. Only the lower house may force ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Irish Sea
The Irish Sea or , gv, Y Keayn Yernagh, sco, Erse Sie, gd, Muir Èireann , Ulster-Scots: ''Airish Sea'', cy, Môr Iwerddon . is an extensive body of water that separates the islands of Ireland and Great Britain. It is linked to the Celtic Sea in the south by St George's Channel and to the Inner Seas off the West Coast of Scotland in the north by the North Channel. Anglesey, North Wales, is the largest island in the Irish Sea, followed by the Isle of Man. The term ''Manx Sea'' may occasionally be encountered ( cy, Môr Manaw, ga, Muir Meann gv, Mooir Vannin, gd, Muir Mhanainn). On its shoreline are Scotland to the north, England to the east, Wales to the southeast, Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland to the west. The Irish Sea is of significant economic importance to regional trade, shipping and transport, as well as fishing and power generation in the form of wind power and nuclear power plants. Annual traffic between Great Britain and Ireland a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brexit
Brexit (; a portmanteau of "British exit") was the withdrawal of the United Kingdom (UK) from the European Union (EU) at 23:00 GMT on 31 January 2020 (00:00 1 February 2020 CET).The UK also left the European Atomic Energy Community (EAEC or Euratom). The UK is the only sovereign country to have left the EU or the EC. Greenland left the EC (but became an OTC) on 1 February 1985. The UK had been a member state of the EU or its predecessor the European Communities (EC), sometimes of both at the same time, since 1 January 1973. Following Brexit, EU law and the Court of Justice of the European Union no longer have primacy over British laws, except in select areas in relation to Northern Ireland. The European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018 retains relevant EU law as domestic law, which the UK can now amend or repeal. Under the terms of the Brexit withdrawal agreement, Northern Ireland continues to participate in the European Single Market in relation to goods, and to be a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
First Minister Of Northern Ireland
The First Minister and deputy First Minister of Northern Ireland are the joint heads of government of the Northern Ireland Executive and have overall responsibility for the running of the Executive Office. Despite the different titles for the two offices, the two positions have the same governmental power, resulting in a duumvirate; the deputy First Minister is not subordinate to the First Minister. Created under the terms of the 1998 Good Friday Agreement, both were initially nominated and appointed by members of the Northern Ireland Assembly on a joint ticket by a cross-community vote, using consociational principles. That process was changed following the 2006 St Andrews Agreement, meaning that the First Minister is nominated by the largest party overall, and the deputy First Minister is nominated by the largest party in the next largest community designation. On 17 June 2021, despite a letter from the Democratic Unionist Party chairman and other senior party members, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Givan
Paul Jonathan Givan (born 12 October 1981) is a Unionist politician from Northern Ireland representing the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP). Givan served as First Minister of Northern Ireland from June 2021 to February 2022, the youngest person to hold that office. Givan has served as the Member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA) for Lagan Valley since 2010. He served as the Minister for Communities in the Northern Ireland Executive under First Minister Arlene Foster from 2016 to 2017. In 2021, he succeeded Foster as First Minister but resigned in February 2022 as part of DUP protests against the Northern Ireland Protocol. Givan has been associated with socially conservative views and has been described as being on the right wing of the DUP. Background Givan was educated at Laurelhill Community College, where he studied Business and History, and is a graduate of the University of Ulster, where he obtained a degree in Business Studies and completed an Advanced Diploma in Managem ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Martin Reynolds (civil Servant)
Martin Alexander Baillie Reynolds is a British civil servant who served as Principal Private Secretary to the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Principal Private Secretary to Prime Minister Boris Johnson from 2019 to 2022. Reynolds previously served as British Ambassador to Libya under Prime Minister Theresa May and as the Principal Private Secretary to the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, principal private secretary to Johnson when he served as Foreign Secretary in May's government. Early life Reynolds was born in Oxford, England. He was educated at Magdalen College School, Oxford, and Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, Gonville and Caius College, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, where he gained an undergraduate degree in law. Career Before entering government, Reynolds worked as a lawyer in London. From 1997, he worked at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office. Becoming a diplomat, Reynolds served at the British High Commission in Pretoria, S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dan Rosenfield
Daniel Robert Rosenfield (born May 1977) is a British political adviser and civil servant who served as the Downing Street Chief of Staff from January 2021 to February 2022. Between July 2007 and April 2011, he served as the principal private secretary to chancellors Alistair Darling and George Osborne, and subsequently as a managing director for Bank of America Merrill Lynch. Early life and education Rosenfield was born in Manchester in 1977, and attended Manchester Grammar School from 1988 to 1995, where he studied maths, French and German at A-level. After school, he spent a year in Israel on a kibbutz. Rosenfield's family later moved to London, where they were members of the North Western Reform Synagogue. He later attended University College London, where he read modern European studies from 1996 to 2000, specialising in German and philosophy. Career Rosenfield worked at HM Treasury from 2000 to 2011. In 2005 he was partly responsible for creating a budget for the 2012 L ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jack Doyle (journalist)
Jack Doyle is a British journalist who served as Downing Street Director of Communications from April 2021 to February 2022. Biography The son of a policeman, Doyle was formerly a home affairs correspondent at the Press Association. He held the same position at the ''Daily Mail'' from 2010, where he was a leader writer under the editorships of Paul Dacre and Geordie Greig. He left the role of the ''Daily Mail''s associate editor (politics) to become a press secretary at Downing Street in 2020. He was Downing Street Deputy Director of Communications. On 16 April 2021, it was announced to staff in Downing Street that he had been appointed to the post of director of communications. He succeeded James Slack, who became deputy editor of '' The Sun''. It was reported that Doyle had vetoed plans favoured by Allegra Stratton for daily televised press briefings to be held. On 23 April 2021, he was accused by Dominic Cummings of making "a number of false accusations to media" about Cummin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jimmy Savile
Sir James Wilson Vincent Savile (; 31 October 1926 – 29 October 2011) was an English DJ, television and radio personality who hosted BBC shows including ''Top of the Pops'' and '' Jim'll Fix It''. During his lifetime, he was well known in the United Kingdom for his eccentric image and his charitable work. After his death, hundreds of allegations of sexual abuse made against him were investigated, leading the police to conclude that he had been a predatory sex offender and possibly one of Britain's most prolific. quoting the head of the NSPCC ("It's now looking possible that Jimmy Savile was one fthe most prolific sex offenders the NSPCC has ever come across") and police ("We are dealing with alleged abuse on an unprecedented scale. The profile of this operation has empowered a staggering number of victims to come forward ... Police previously said Savile's alleged catalogue of sex abuse could have spanned six decades"). There had been allegations during his lifetim ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Number 10 Policy Unit
The Number 10 Policy Unit is a body of policymakers based in 10 Downing Street, providing policy advice directly to the British Prime Minister. Originally set up to support Harold Wilson in 1974, it has gone through a series of guises to suit the needs of successive prime ministers, staffed variously by political advisers, civil servants and more recently a combination of both. The Coalition Government of May 2010 quickly disbanded two major parts of central infrastructure built by Tony Blair, the Prime Minister's Delivery Unit (PMDU) and Prime Minister's Strategy Unit (PMSU), as part of the Prime Minister's agenda to reduce the number of special advisers and end the micromanagement of Whitehall. In their place, a strengthened Policy and Implementation Unit was launched in early 2011 by the Cabinet Secretary, staffed wholly by civil servants and reporting jointly to the Prime Minister and Deputy Prime Minister under joint heads Paul Kirby (Policy) and Kris Murrin (Implementat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Munira Mirza
Munira Mirza (born May 1978) is a British political advisor who served as Director of the Number 10 Policy Unit under Prime Minister Boris Johnson from 2019 until she resigned on 3 February 2022, citing Johnson's claim that Labour leader Keir Starmer was responsible for the failure to prosecute the serial sex offender Jimmy Savile as a reason for her resignation. She previously worked under Johnson as Deputy Mayor for Education and Culture when he was Mayor of London. Early life and education Mirza was born in Oldham, Greater Manchester, England. Her family came to the United Kingdom from Pakistan; her father found work in a factory while her mother was a housewife and taught Urdu part-time. She had two older brothers and an older sister. Mirza went to Breeze Hill School until 16, then moved to Oldham Sixth Form College for her A-levels. She was the only pupil in her Sixth Form college to gain a place at Oxford University, studying English Literature at Mansfield College, gradua ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
