The Chief Whip of the Conservative Party oversees the
whipping system in the party, which is responsible for ensuring that
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attend and vote in
parliament in the desired way of the
party leadership.
Chief Whips, of which two are appointed in the party, a member of the
House of Commons and a member of the
House of Lords, also help to organise their party's contribution to parliamentary business.
The party leadership may allow members to have a
free vote based on their own conscience rather than party policy, which means the chief whip is not required to influence the way members vote.
This is a list of people who have served as
Chief Whip
The Chief Whip is a political leader whose task is to enforce the whipping system, which aims to ensure that legislators who are members of a political party attend and vote on legislation as the party leadership prescribes.
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of the
Conservative Party, previously the
Tory Party, in the
Parliament of the United Kingdom.
The position is currently held by
Simon Hart MP, appointed by Prime Minister
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In popular culture
Francis Urquhart is a fictional Conservative Chief Whip, created by
Michael Dobbs, formerly Chief of Staff for British Conservative Prime Minister
Margaret Thatcher. Urquhart was the main character in Dobbs's trilogy of books, that were turned into successful BBC television dramas in the 1990s. The first book in the trilogy,
House of Cards, was
adapted and broadcast by the BBC in 1990. This was subsequently followed by a 1993 adaptation of the second element of the trilogy,
To Play The King. The third part
The Final Cut, aired in 1995. The trilogy charts Urquhart's ambitious rise through his party's ranks until he becomes Prime Minister. Urquhart was played by
Ian Richardson.
See also
*
Chief Whip of the Labour Party
*
Chief Whip of the Liberal Democrats
References
Sources
*Chris Cook and Brendan Keith, ''British Historical Facts 1830-1900'', Macmillan, 1975, pp. 92–93.
*David Butler and Gareth Butler, ''Twentieth-Century British Historical Facts 1900-2000'', Macmillan, 2000.
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