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2024 Prime Minister's Resignation Honours
The 2024 Prime Minister's Resignation Honours are honours awarded following the July 2024 resignation of the Prime Minister, Rishi Sunak. They were published on 11 April 2025. Life peerages * The Rt Hon Michael Gove – Former Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities; to be ''Baron Gove'', ''of Torry in the City of Aberdeen'' – 13 May 2025 * The Rt Hon Mark Harper – Former Secretary of State for Transport; to be ''Baron Harper'', ''of Forest of Dean in the County of Gloucestershire'' – 12 May 2025 * The Rt Hon Simon Hart – Former Chief Whip of the House of Commons; to be ''Baron Hart of Tenby, of Lampeter Velfrey in the County of Pembrokeshire'' – 28 May 2025 * The Rt Hon Sir Alister William Jack – Former Secretary of State for Scotland; to be ''Baron Jack of Courance'', ''of Courance in the County of Dumfriesshire'' – 9 May 2025 * Stephen Massey – Former Chief Executive Officer of the Conservative Party; to be ''Baron Massey of Hampstea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Portrait Of Prime Minister Rishi Sunak (cropped)
A portrait is a portrait painting, painting, portrait photography, photograph, sculpture, or other artistic representation of a person, in which the face is always predominant. In arts, a portrait may be represented as half body and even full body. If the subject in full body better represents personality and mood, this type of presentation may be chosen. The intent is to display the likeness, Personality type, personality, and even the mood of the person. For this reason, in photography a portrait is generally not a Snapshot (photography), snapshot, but a composed image of a person in a still position. A portrait often shows a person looking directly at the painter or photographer, to most successfully engage the subject with the viewer, but portrait may be represented as a profile (from aside) and 3/4. History Prehistorical portraiture Plastered human skulls were reconstructed human skulls that were made in the ancient Levant between 9000 and 6000 BC in the Pre-Pottery Ne ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grant Shapps
Sir Grant Shapps (born 14 September 1968) is a British politician who served as Secretary of State for Defence from August 2023 to July 2024. Shapps previously served in various Cabinet of the United Kingdom, cabinet posts, including Chairman of the Conservative Party, Conservative Party Co-Chairman, Transport Secretary, Home Secretary, Business Secretary, and Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, Energy Secretary under Prime Ministers David Cameron, Boris Johnson, Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak. A member of the Conservative Party (UK), Conservative Party, he served as the Member of Parliament (United Kingdom), Member of Parliament (MP) for Welwyn Hatfield (UK Parliament constituency), Welwyn Hatfield from 2005 United Kingdom general election, 2005 to 2024. He was defeated and lost his seat in the 2024 United Kingdom general election, 2024 general election. Shapps was first promoted to the Shadow Cabinet as Shadow Minister for Housing and Planning in 2007. Following Dav ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Politics Of The United Kingdom
The United Kingdom is a constitutional monarchy which, by legislation and convention, operates as a unitary parliamentary democracy. A hereditary monarch, currently King Charles III, serves as head of state while the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, currently Sir Keir Starmer since 2024, serves as the head of the elected government. Under the United Kingdom's parliamentary system, executive power is exercised by His Majesty's Government, whose Prime Minister is formally appointed by the King to act in his name. The King must appoint a member of parliament that can command the confidence of the House of Commons, usually the leader of the majority party or apparent majority party, though the King may choose to appoint an alternative if they say that they cannot expect the confidence of the House. Having taken office, the Prime Minister can then appoint all other ministers from parliament. The Parliament has two houses: the House of Commons and the House of Lor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Prime Minister's Resignation Honours
The Prime Minister's Resignation Honours in the United Kingdom are honours granted at the behest of an outgoing prime minister following their resignation. In such a list, a prime minister may ask the monarch to bestow peerages, or lesser honours, on any number of people of their choosing. In 1997, an additional 47 working peers were created at the behest of the three main parties. History Since May 2007, the House of Lords Appointments Commission has had to approve proposed peerages, while oversight by the Honours Committee within the Cabinet Office ensures that other honours are appropriate. Some previous lists had attracted criticism. Former Prime Minister Tony Blair did not issue a list by June 2007, apparently because of the " Cash for Honours scandal". Gordon Brown did not publish a resignation honours list either, but a dissolution list was issued on his advice (to similar effect). David Cameron revived the practice in his Resignation Honours published in August 2016, f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Will Tanner
William Tanner is a former British political adviser who most recently served as Deputy Chief of Staff to the former Prime Minister, Rishi Sunak. Career Tanner served as one of Theresa May's special advisers from 2014 whilst she was Home Secretary and then when she was Prime Minister from 2016, until leaving in 2017 after the general election. Tanner then worked for Portland Communications as a political adviser for a year, before becoming in May 2018 the co-founder and initial director of the think tank Onward. When Rishi Sunak became Prime Minister, Tanner returned to Number 10 as Deputy Chief of Staff. In May 2024, during the 2024 general election campaign, Tanner was labelled by ''The Daily Telegraph'' as being the author of the Conservative Party's plan to bring in a new form of national service were they to win the election. He was criticised for his time in Government for "refus ngto suggest any number of immigrants as an upper limit". Tanner was selected as the p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nerissa Chesterfield
Nerissa Chesterfield is a British political aide who served as Downing Street Director of Communications from September 2023 to July 2024. She previously served as Downing Street Press Secretary under Prime Minister Rishi Sunak from October 2022. Career Chesterfield worked for Dominic Cummings at Vote Leave during the 2016 United Kingdom European Union membership referendum. In 2018 she became communications manager at the Institute for Economic Affairs. In 2019 she worked under Liz Truss at the Department for International Trade as a media special adviser. After working for Rishi Sunak as a media adviser, she was appointed Downing Street Press Secretary when he became prime minister in October 2022. On 1 September 2023, she replaced Amber de Botton as Downing Street Director of Communications. References External links Nerissa Chesterfieldat The Daily Telegraph ''The Daily Telegraph'', known online and elsewhere as ''The Telegraph'', is a British daily broadsh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Theresa Villiers
Dame Theresa Anne Villiers (born 5 March 1968) is a British politician who served as the Member of Parliament (United Kingdom), Member of Parliament (MP) for Chipping Barnet (UK Parliament constituency), Chipping Barnet from 2005 United Kingdom general election, 2005 to 2024 United Kingdom general election, 2024, having previously served as a Member of the European Parliament from 1999 to 2005. A member of the Conservative Party (UK), Conservative Party, Villiers was Minister of State for Transport, Minister of State for Rail and Aviation from 2010 to 2012, Secretary of State for Northern Ireland from 2012 to 2016 and Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs from 2019 to 2020. Early life Villiers was born in Hunstanton, Norfolk in 1968, the third child of George Edward Villiers by his marriage to Anne Virginia Threlfall; she has two elder brothers, Edward and Henry. On her father's side, she is a descendant of Edward Ernest Villiers (1806–1843), brother of Geo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Bew (historian)
John Bew is Professor in History and Foreign Policy at King's College London and from 2013 to 2014 held the Henry A. Kissinger Chair in Foreign Policy and International Relations at the John W. Kluge Center. In October 2024, he became distinguished visiting fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University and Distinguished Advisor to the Australian National Security College. Bew has served in senior positions at the highest levels of the UK government. He spent over five years as the chief Foreign Policy Advisor in No.10 Downing Street, working for four Prime Ministers and through two general elections. He was the penholder on the last two UK national security strategies and intimately involved in the foreign policy challenges of that period, from the creation of AUKUS to the war in Ukraine. Uniquely, he has worked across the aisle, serving both Conservative and Labour administrations and moving from a political appointee to a civil service role. In 2021, he also ser ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andrew Mitchell
Sir Andrew John Bower Mitchell Order of St Michael and St George, KCMG (born 23 March 1956) is a British politician who was Shadow Foreign Secretary from July to November 2024 and served as Foreign Secretary (United Kingdom), Deputy Foreign Secretary between February and July 2024. He was also Minister of State for Development and Africa between October 2022 and July 2024. A member of the Conservative Party (UK), Conservative Party, he has served as the Member of Parliament (United Kingdom), Member of Parliament (MP) for Sutton Coldfield (UK Parliament constituency), Sutton Coldfield since 2001 United Kingdom general election, 2001 and previously served as the MP for Gedling (UK Parliament constituency), Gedling from 1987 United Kingdom general election, 1987 to 1997 United Kingdom general election, 1997. Mitchell served in the Cabinet of the United Kingdom, Cabinet as Secretary of State for International Development from 2010 to 2012 and then briefly as Government Chief Whip i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elizabeth Perelman
Elizabeth or Elisabeth may refer to: People * Elizabeth (given name), a female given name (including people with that name) * Empress Elisabeth (other), lists various empresses named ''Elisabeth'' or ''Elizabeth'' * Princess Elizabeth (other), lists various princesses named ''Elizabeth'' * Queen Elizabeth (other), lists various queens named ''Elizabeth'' * Saint Elizabeth (other), lists various saints named ''Elizabeth'' or ''Elisabeth'' ** Elizabeth (biblical figure), mother of John the Baptist Film and television * ''Elizabeth R'', 1971 * ''Elizabeth'' (TV series), 1980 * ''Elizabeth'' (film), 1998 * '' Elizabeth: The Golden Age'', 2007 Music * ''Elisabeth'' (Elisabeth Andreassen album) * ''Elisabeth'' (Zach Bryan album) * Elizabeth (band), an American psychedelic rock/progressive rock band active from 1967 to 1970 * ''Elizabeth'' (Lisa album) * ''Elizabeth'', an album by Killah Priest * "Elizabeth" (Ghost song) * "Elizabeth" (The S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Matthew Vaughn
Sir Matthew Allard Robert Vaughn (legal name Matthew Allard Robert de Vere Drummond; born 7 March 1971) is an English filmmaker. He has produced films including ''Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels'' (1998) and ''Snatch (film), Snatch'' (2000), and directed ''Layer Cake (film), Layer Cake'' (2004), ''Stardust (2007 film), Stardust'' (2007), ''Kick-Ass (film), Kick-Ass'' (2010), ''X-Men: First Class'' (2011), and ''Argylle'' (2024). Vaughn also co-created the Kingsman (comic book), ''Kingsman'' comic book series and Kingsman (franchise), resulting franchise, directing, producing and co-writing the films ''Kingsman: The Secret Service'' (2014), ''Kingsman: The Golden Circle'' (2017), and ''The King's Man'' (2021). Early life Vaughn was born in Paddington, London, England. Until 2002, he had thought that he was the child of a relationship between his mother, a production manager and producer Kathy Ceaton (died 20 July 2013), daughter of electrical and property tycoon James Ceaton ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mel Stride
Sir Melvyn John Stride (born 30 September 1961) is a British politician who has served as Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer in Kemi Badenoch's Shadow Cabinet since November 2024. A member of the Conservative Party, he has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Central Devon since 2010. He previously served in the May Government as Financial Secretary to the Treasury and Paymaster General from 2017 to 2019 and as Leader of the House of Commons and Lord President of the Council from May to July 2019. From 2019 to 2022 he sat as a backbencher, serving as Chair of the Treasury Select Committee. From October 2022 to July 2024, during the government of Rishi Sunak, Stride served as Secretary of State for Work and Pensions. After the Conservative Party's defeat in the 2024 general election, Stride was appointed Sunak's Shadow Secretary of State for Work and Pensions. On Sunak's departure he launched his bid to become Leader of the Conservative Party, but was eliminated on the s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
