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Cameron Cutie
Cameron Cutie was a political term used in the UK to refer to female prospective parliamentary candidates and Members of Parliament (MPs) for the 2010 general election from the Conservative Party who were personally supported by then-party leader David Cameron. The term emerged in 2009, and was seen as a Conservative version of the more prominent Blair Babe. Promoting women candidates was a way of reaching female voters similar to the means by which New Labour won their 1997 landslide. As part of his party's modernisation programme, Cameron advocated for more female MPs. A male equivalent was coined as a "mate of Dave". Some grassroots activists resented that David Cameron personally selected female parachute candidates for winnable seats. There were female members of the Conservative A-List, priority candidates that were selected for the general election. Mayor of Antrim Adrian Watson said he was overlooked for being the Ulster Conservatives and Unionist candidate in Sout ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Prospective Parliamentary Candidate
In British politics, a prospective parliamentary candidate (PPC) is a candidate selected by political parties to contest under individual Westminster constituencies in advance of a general election. The term originally came into use because of the strict limits on the maximum expenditure permitted to be incurred by an election candidate, regardless of whether the election had been formally called. The candidates were termed "prospective" because referring to them simply as a candidate would arguably trigger the moment when money spent to promote them would need to be included in their declaration of expenses after the election. In 2004, however, the law was changed so that the trigger for election expenses being accountable was to be the calling of an election and not the announcing of a candidacy. Some political parties had already started to use terms such as "parliamentary spokesperson", believing that some voters were confused by the unusual word "prospective"; however, the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joanne Cash
Joanne Catherine Cash, Baroness Cash (born 28 December 1969) is a media barrister and life peer. She was the unsuccessful Conservative Party candidate for Westminster North in the 2010 general election. Early life and education Cash was born in Northern Ireland. Her mother was a newsagent, while her father held various jobs, sometimes up to three at once. She has a brother who is an NHS doctor, and a sister who is a teacher. Cash was educated at Tandragee Primary and Banbridge Academy (both state schools). She read English Literature at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford University. Cash was elected Librarian of the Oxford Union, but failed in her bid for its presidency. Legal career Cash qualified as a barrister after graduating. She was called to the Bar in 1994 as a member of Gray's Inn, and became a tenant at Farrars' Building. In 2000, she joined One Brick Court to specialise in libel, privacy and freedom of expression work. In 2005, Cash successfully represented an innocent ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Louise Mensch
Louise Daphne Mensch (''née'' Bagshawe; born 28 June 1971) is a British blogger, novelist, and former Conservative Member of Parliament. In the 1990s she became known as a writer of chick lit novels under her maiden name Louise Bagshawe. She was elected Conservative MP for Corby at the 2010 UK general election. Mensch resigned as an MP in August 2012 to move to New York City to live with her second husband, American music manager Peter Mensch. She began working for News Corp in 2014, and co-launched its '' Heat Street'' website in February 2016. Since leaving ''Heat Street'' in December 2016, she has published primarily on her blog '' Patribotics'', which she launched in January 2017, and her Twitter account. She left News Corp entirely in March 2017. Mensch and ''Heat Street'' have since courted controversy by promoting unverified claims, hoaxes, and conspiracy theories about the Trump administration and its ties to the Russian Federation. Zack Beauchamp, a reporter fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Burden
Richard Haines Burden (born 1 September 1954) is a British Labour Party politician who was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Birmingham Northfield from 1992 to 2019. He served as a Shadow Transport Minister from 2013 to 2016 and again from 2016 to 2017. After the 2017 general election, he returned to the backbenches and served as a member of the House of Commons International Development Committee. Early life Burden was born in Liverpool. He attended the Wallasey Technical Grammar School; Bramhall Comprehensive School; St John's College of Further Education, Manchester; the University of York, where he obtained a degree in Politics and was the president of the Students' Union in 1976; and then the University of Warwick The University of Warwick ( ; abbreviated as ''Warw.'' in post-nominal letters) is a public research university on the outskirts of Coventry between the West Midlands and Warwickshire, England. The university was founded in 1965 as part of ... where h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Birmingham Northfield (UK Parliament Constituency)
Birmingham Northfield is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2024 by Laurence Turner, a Labour politician. It represents the southernmost part of the city of Birmingham. Boundaries 1950–1955: The County Borough of Birmingham Wards of Northfield, Selly Oak, and Weoley. 1955–1974: The County Borough of Birmingham wards of King's Norton, Northfield, and Weoley. 1974–1983: As above less King's Norton, plus Longbridge 1983–1997: The City of Birmingham wards of Bartley Green, Longbridge, Northfield, and Weoley. 1997–2010: The City of Birmingham wards of Longbridge, Northfield, and Weoley ''(as they existed on 1 June 1994)''. 2010–2018: The City of Birmingham wards of King's Norton, Longbridge, Northfield, and Weoley ''(as they existed on 12 April 2005)''. 2018–2024: Following a local government boundary review, which did not effect the parliamentary boundaries, the contents of the constituency were as follows with effect fro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Crausby
Sir David Anthony Crausby (born 17 June 1946) is a British Labour politician who served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Bolton North East from 1997 to 2019. Born in Bury, Lancashire, Crausby worked as a turner and later became a workplace representative for the Amalgamated Engineering Union. He was a Member of Bury Metropolitan Borough Council from 1979 to 1992, and elected as an MP at the 1997 general election. A backbencher throughout his tenure in Parliament, Crausby was a long-serving member of the Defence Select Committee and Panel of Chairs. He represented the UK internationally as a delegate to the Nato and Council of Europe Parliamentary Assemblies, and was knighted in the 2017 New Year Honours. Crausby lost his seat to the Conservatives at the 2019 general election. Early life and career Crausby was born in Bury, Lancashire and educated locally at Derby Grammar School, now Derby High School, and Bury Technical College. He began a career as a turner, b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bolton North East (UK Parliament Constituency)
Bolton North East is a List of United Kingdom Parliament constituencies, constituency represented in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom, House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, UK Parliament since 2024 United Kingdom general election, 2024 by Kirith Entwistle, a Labour Party (UK), Labour Party MP. Constituency profile The seat covers parts of Bolton town centre and extends into the West Pennine Moors. The districts in close proximity to the town centre (Breightmet, Shaw and Crompton, Crompton, Halliwell, Greater Manchester, Halliwell, Tonge with the Haulgh) are Labour Party (UK), Labour-voting areas, whereas the outer suburbs (Astley Bridge, Bradshaw, Greater Manchester, Bradshaw, Bromley Cross) are much more Conservative Party (UK), Conservative inclined. Altogether, the national statistics collected reflect a socially diverse seat in terms of income; this has been a highly marginal seat when national polls are close, with lower than average social hou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gosport (UK Parliament Constituency)
Gosport ( ) is a parliamentary constituency represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2010 by Caroline Dinenage of the Conservative Party. The constituency is anchored by the town and borough of Gosport. Boundaries 1974–1983: The Municipal Borough of Gosport. 1983–present: The Borough of Gosport, and the Borough of Fareham wards of Hill Head and Stubbington. The 2023 Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies left the boundaries unchanged. The constituency centres on Peel Common, Chalk Common and the River Alver that run north–south — its largest settlement is arguably the eastern town of Gosport. Gosport post town comprises several distinct villages and neighbourhoods on the south coast of England in Hampshire whereas the constituency comprises the whole of Gosport Borough (including Lee-on-the-Solent and Alverstoke) and includes Stubbington and Hill Head from the neighbouring Fareham Borough. Constituency profile Gosport has, to da ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Caroline Dinenage
Caroline Julia Dinenage, Baroness Lancaster of Kimbolton, (born 28 October 1971), also styled as Dame Caroline Dinenage, is a British Conservative Party politician who has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Gosport since 2010. Dinenage was appointed Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) in the 2022 Political Honours. Early life and career Caroline Dinenage was born on 28 October 1971 in Portsmouth, the daughter of television presenter Fred Dinenage and Beverley Summers. She attended Wykeham House School, a private school for girls in Fareham, then Oaklands RC Comprehensive School, Waterlooville, before studying Politics and English at Swansea University. Dinenage established her first manufacturing company at the age of 19, and was a director/company secretary of Dinenages Ltd for 20 years. In May 1998 she was elected as the youngest member in Winchester District Council. Parliamentary career Dinenage stood as the Conservative candidate in Po ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Karen Buck
Dame Karen Patricia Buck (born 30 August 1958) is a British Labour Party (UK), Labour Party politician who was the Member of Parliament (United Kingdom), Member of Parliament (MP) for Westminster North (UK Parliament constituency), Westminster North, previously Regent's Park and Kensington North (UK Parliament constituency), Regent's Park and Kensington North, from 1997 to 2024. She served on Westminster City Council from 1990 to 1997. Early life Born in Castlederg, County Tyrone, Northern Ireland, Buck was educated at the Chelmsford County High School for Girls and the London School of Economics, from where she was awarded a BSc and an MSc in Economics, and an Master of Arts, MA in Social Policy and public administration, Administration. Buck was briefly a Young Liberals (UK), Young Liberal. She joined the Labour Party (UK), Labour Party in 1978. The following year, she became a research and development worker with Outset, a charity working with disabled people, before joinin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2017 United Kingdom General Election
The 2017 United Kingdom general election was held on Thursday 8 June 2017, two years after the 2015 United Kingdom general election, previous general election in 2015; it was the first since 1992 United Kingdom general election, 1992 to be held on a day that did not coincide with any local elections. The governing Conservative Party (UK), Conservative Party led by Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Prime Minister Theresa May remained the largest single party in the House of Commons but lost its small overall majority, resulting in the formation of a Conservative minority government with a confidence and supply Conservative–DUP agreement, agreement with the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) of Northern Ireland. The Conservative Party, which had governed as a senior Cameron–Clegg coalition, coalition partner from 2010 United Kingdom general election, 2010 and as a single-party majority government from 2015 United Kingdom general election, 2015, was led by May as Prime Ministe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Saffron Walden (UK Parliament Constituency)
Saffron Walden was a Constituencies of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, constituency in Essex, represented in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom, House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, UK Parliament from 1922 to 2024 by members of the Conservative Party (UK), Conservative Party. Further to the completion of the 2023 Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies, the seat was abolished. Subject to relatively minor boundary changes, it was reformed as North West Essex (UK Parliament constituency), North West Essex for the 2024 United Kingdom general election, 2024 general election. Constituency profile The constituency was by far the largest and most rural in Essex and covered the entire north-west corner of the county, an area of almost . It bordered Hertfordshire and Cambridgeshire and also extended deep into the middle of Essex near Chelmsford. Two medium-sized market towns, Saffron Walden and Great Dunmow, were in the constituency. Both of these ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
