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Jo Johnson
Joseph Edmund Johnson, Baron Johnson of Marylebone, (born 23 December 1971) is a British politician and peer who was Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, Minister of State for Universities, Science, Research and Innovation from 2015 to 2018, and from July to September 2019. A member of the Conservative Party (UK), Conservative Party, he was Member of Parliament (United Kingdom), Member of Parliament (MP) for Orpington (UK Parliament constituency), Orpington from 2010 United Kingdom general election, 2010 to 2019 United Kingdom general election, 2019. He currently sits in the House of Lords. His older brother, Boris Johnson, was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom between 2019 and 2022. Johnson was appointed Number 10 Policy Unit, Director of the Number 10 Policy Unit in 2013 by Prime Minister David Cameron. He became Cabinet Office, Minister of State for the Cabinet Office in 2014 and Minister of State for Universities, Universities Minister in 2015. Follow ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
The Right Honourable
''The Right Honourable'' (abbreviation: The Rt Hon. or variations) is an honorific Style (form of address), style traditionally applied to certain persons and collective bodies in the United Kingdom, the former British Empire, and the Commonwealth of Nations. The term is predominantly used today as a style associated with the holding of certain senior public offices in the United Kingdom, Canada, New Zealand, and, to a lesser extent, Australia. ''Right'' in this context is an adverb meaning 'very' or 'fully'. Grammatically, ''The Right Honourable'' is an adjectival phrase which gives information about a person. As such, it is not considered correct to apply it in direct address, nor to use it on its own as a title in place of a name; but rather it is used in the Grammatical person, third person along with a name or noun to be modified. ''Right'' may be abbreviated to ''Rt'', and ''Honourable'' to ''Hon.'', or both. ''The'' is sometimes dropped in written abbreviated form, but is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Camilla Cavendish
Hilary Camilla Cavendish, Baroness Cavendish of Little Venice (born 20 August 1968) is a British journalist, contributing editor and columnist at ''The Financial Times'', senior fellow at Harvard University and former director of policy for Prime Minister David Cameron. Cavendish became a Conservative Member of the House of Lords in Cameron's resignation honours, but resigned the party whip in December 2016 to sit as a non-affiliated peer. Early life and education Cavendish was educated at Putney High School and graduated from Brasenose College, Oxford in 1989 with a first-class degree in philosophy, politics and economics. At university, she was a contemporary of David Cameron, Andrew Feldman, Guy Spier and Amanda Pullinger and Bill O'Chee. She was a Kennedy Scholar for two years at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, gaining the degree of Master of Public Administration (MPA). Career From 2002 until 2012 she worked at ''The Times'', where sh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Rachel Johnson
Rachel Sabiha Johnson (born 3 September 1965) is a British journalist, television presenter, and author who has appeared frequently on political discussion panels, including ''The Pledge (British TV programme), The Pledge'' on Sky News and BBC One's debate programme, ''Question Time (TV programme), Question Time''. In January 2018, she participated in the Celebrity Big Brother (British series 21), 21st series of ''Celebrity Big Brother (British TV series), Celebrity Big Brother'' and was evicted second. She was the lead candidate for Change UK for the South West England (European Parliament constituency), South West England constituency in the 2019 European Parliament election in the United Kingdom, 2019 European Parliament election. Early life and education Johnson is the daughter of former Conservative Party (UK), Conservative Member of the European Parliament, MEP Stanley Johnson (writer), Stanley Johnson and artist Charlotte Johnson Wahl (''née'' Fawcett). She is the young ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Charlotte Johnson Wahl
Charlotte Johnson Wahl (''née'' Fawcett; 29 May 1942 – 13 September 2021) was a British artist. She was the mother of Boris Johnson, the former prime minister of the United Kingdom, as well as the journalist Rachel Johnson and the politician Jo Johnson. Early life and education Johnson Wahl was born Charlotte Maria Offlow Fawcett in Oxford on 29 May 1942. Her father was the English barrister Sir James Fawcett and her mother was Frances Beatrice Fawcett (née Lowe). Frances was the daughter of Elias Avery Lowe, a Lithuanian-American Jewish palaeographer, and Helen Tracy Lowe-Porter, an American translator and writer, along with Frances's four siblings (including the journalist and author Edmund Fawcett). James was the son of Joseph Fawcett, an English clergyman, and Edith Fawcett (''née'' Scattergood). In 1961 Johnson Wahl began studying English at Lady Margaret Hall, a college of Oxford University. She took her finals in 1965, the first year the college granted permis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Stanley Johnson (writer)
Stanley Patrick Johnson (born 18 August 1940) is a British and French author and former politician who was a member of the European Parliament (MEP) for Wight and Hampshire East from 1979 to 1984. A former employee of the World Bank and the European Commission, he has written books on environmental and population issues. His six children include Boris Johnson, who was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 2019 to 2022. He is a former member of the Conservative Party. Personal life Stanley Johnson was born in 1940 in Penzance, Cornwall, the son of Osman Kemal (1909–1992) (later known as Wilfred Johnson) and Irene Williams (1907–1987) (daughter of Stanley Fred Williams of Bromley, Kent, who was the grandson of Sir George Williams, and Marie Louise de Pfeffel). His paternal grandfather, Ali Kemal Bey, one of the last interior ministers of the Ottoman government, was assassinated in 1922 during the Turkish War of Independence. Stanley's father was born in 1909 in Bo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Amelia Gentleman
Amelia Sophie Gentleman (born 1972) is a British journalist. She is a reporter for ''The Guardian'', and won the Paul Foot Award in 2018 for reporting the Windrush scandal. Early life and education Born in London in 1972, Gentleman is the daughter of the artist David Gentleman and his second wife Susan Evans, daughter of George Ewart Evans. Gentleman was educated at St Paul's Girls' School, an independent day school, before studying Russian and History at Wadham College, Oxford. Career Earlier in her career, Gentleman was the New Delhi correspondent for the ''International Herald Tribune'' and the Paris and Moscow correspondent for ''The Guardian''. Since 2009, she has been in London, writing features for ''The Guardian'', mainly looking at the impact of government policy. For six months, Gentleman worked for ''The Guardian'' on the story of the Windrush scandal, the deportation of people originally from British colonies in the Caribbean, or elsewhere in the Commonwealt ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Conservative Party (UK)
The Conservative and Unionist Party, commonly the Conservative Party and colloquially known as the Tories, is one of the two main political parties in the United Kingdom, along with the Labour Party (UK), Labour Party. The party sits on the Centre-right politics, centre-right to Right-wing politics, right-wing of the Left–right political spectrum, left-right political spectrum. Following its defeat by Labour at the 2024 United Kingdom general election, 2024 general election it is currently the second-largest party by the number of votes cast and number of seats in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom, House of Commons; as such it has the formal parliamentary role of His Majesty's Most Loyal Opposition. It encompasses various ideological factions including One-nation conservatism, one-nation conservatives, Thatcherism, Thatcherites and Traditionalist conservatism, traditionalist conservatives. There have been 20 Conservative Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, prime minis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
London
London is the Capital city, capital and List of urban areas in the United Kingdom, largest city of both England and the United Kingdom, with a population of in . London metropolitan area, Its wider metropolitan area is the largest in Western Europe, with a population of 14.9 million. London stands on the River Thames in southeast England, at the head of a tidal estuary down to the North Sea, and has been a major settlement for nearly 2,000 years. Its ancient core and financial centre, the City of London, was founded by the Roman Empire, Romans as Londinium and has retained its medieval boundaries. The City of Westminster, to the west of the City of London, has been the centuries-long host of Government of the United Kingdom, the national government and Parliament of the United Kingdom, parliament. London grew rapidly 19th-century London, in the 19th century, becoming the world's List of largest cities throughout history, largest city at the time. Since the 19th cen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Gareth Bacon
Gareth Andrew Bacon (born 7 April 1972) is a British politician who has served as the Member of Parliament (United Kingdom), Member of Parliament (MP) for Orpington (UK Parliament constituency), Orpington since 2019 United Kingdom general election, 2019. He was Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Sentencing from November 2023 to July 2024. He has been Shadow Minister for London since July 2024 and Shadow Transport Secretary since November 2024. A member of the Conservative Party (UK), Conservative Party, he was a member of the London Assembly from 2008 London Assembly election, 2008 until he stood down in 2021 London Assembly election, 2021 after his election as an MP. Early life and career Bacon was born in British Hong Kong, Hong Kong in 1972, the son of Robert and Helen Bacon. He studied at St. Mary's and St. Joseph's School in Sidcup, then at the University of Kent at Canterbury, where he was awarded a Bachelor of Arts honours degree in Politics and Government in 19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
John Horam
John Rhodes Horam, Baron Horam (born 7 March 1939) is a Conservative politician in the United Kingdom. He has represented three parties in Parliament—originally a Labour MP, he defected to the SDP on its foundation in 1981, then to the Conservatives in 1987, and has served as a minister in both Labour and Conservative governments. On 4 September 2013, he was created a working life peer as Baron Horam of Grimsargh in the County of Lancashire.Working Peerages announced Gov.uk He is a founder and vice chair of the Common Sense Group of Conservative parliamentarians. Early life Horam was born in[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Orpington (UK Parliament Constituency)
Orpington is a Constituencies of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, constituency created in 1945 and represented in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom, House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2019 United Kingdom general election, 2019 by Gareth Bacon, a Conservative Party (UK), Conservative. It is the largest constituency in Greater London by area, covering the east and south of the London Borough of Bromley. History Orpington was created in a major boundary review enacted at the 1945 United Kingdom general election, 1945 general election, which followed an absence of reviews since 1918. The seats of Dartford (UK Parliament constituency), Dartford and Chislehurst (UK Parliament constituency), Chislehurst had both seen their electorate grow enormously into newly built houses since the 1918 Representation of the People Act 1918, review and were treated as one and reformed into four seats, creating the additional seats of Bexley (UK Parliament constituency), Bexley and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Member Of Parliament (United Kingdom)
In the United Kingdom, a Member of Parliament (MP) is an individual elected to serve in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom, House of Commons, the lower house of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. Electoral system All 650 members of the UK House of Commons are elected using the first-past-the-post voting system in single member United Kingdom Parliament constituencies, constituencies across the whole of the United Kingdom, where each constituency has its own single representative. Elections All MP positions become simultaneously vacant for elections held on a five-year cycle, or when a snap election is called. Since the Dissolution and Calling of Parliament Act 2022, Parliament is automatically dissolved once five years have elapsed from its first meeting after an election. If a Vacancy (economics), vacancy arises at another time, due to death or Resignation from the British House of Commons, resignation, then a constituency vacancy may be filled by a by-election. Un ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
