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Nottingham North (UK Parliament Constituency)
Nottingham North was a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament. Under the 2023 Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies, the constituency was abolished. Subject to major boundary changes – including gaining the communities of Kimberley and Nuthall in the Borough of Broxtowe, the Nottingham City ward of Leen Valley ward from Nottingham South, and losing Bilborough ward in exchange – it was reformed as Nottingham North and Kimberley, which was first contested in the 2024 general election. Constituency profile The constituency consisted mostly of residential areas, a majority of neighbourhoods of which were council housing. Of these a slight majority, rather than being social housing, is now private under the Right to Buy, such as Bulwell. Overall, its census Super Output Areas have the lowest income of the three Nottingham constituencies, and was the city's safest seat for the Labour Party, though 2017 and 2019 saw considerable increases ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nottingham East (UK Parliament Constituency)
Nottingham 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 2019 by Nadia Whittome of the Labour Party (UK), Labour Party. Members of Parliament MPs 1885–1955 ''Nottingham (UK Parliament constituency), Nottingham prior to 1885'' MPs since February 1974 ''Nottingham Central (UK Parliament constituency), Nottingham Central and Nottingham South (UK Parliament constituency), Nottingham South prior to 1974'' Constituency profile On average earners' incomes are slightly lower than the national average and in 2010 unemployment stood at 7.4%, which was higher than the East Midlands average at the time of 3.6% however the picture is not uniform across all 2011 Census Output Areas, some of which have incomes at the national average or above and together with the affordability of property in the area, those on the national ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Social Housing
Public housing, also known as social housing, refers to Subsidized housing, subsidized or affordable housing provided in buildings that are usually owned and managed by local government, central government, nonprofit organizations or a combination thereof. The details, terminology, definitions of poverty, and other criteria for allocation may vary within different contexts, but the right to renting, rent such a home is generally rationed through some form of means-testing or through administrative measures of housing needs. One can regard social housing as a potential remedy for housing inequality. Within the OECD, social housing represents an average of 7% of national housing stock (2020), ranging from ~34% in the Netherlands to less than 1% in Colombia. In the United States, public housing developments are classified as housing projects that are owned by a housing authority or a low-income (project-based voucher) property. PBV are a component of a public housing agenc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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] |
William Whitlock (politician)
William Charles Whitlock (Southampton, 20 June 1918 – 2 November 2001, Leicester) was a British Labour Party politician. Whitlock was educated at Itchen Grammar School and the University of Southampton. He volunteered for the British Army upon graduation, and soon joined the Hampshire Regiment. Part of the British Expeditionary Force (BEF), he was one of those evacuated on the last day at Dunkirk, escaping aboard a fishing trawler in June 1940. At the end of 1940, he volunteered for the airborne forces. Assigned to the British 1st Airborne Division, he landed near Nijmegen during Operation Market Garden in September 1944 and was one of the relatively few British airborne troops to escape death or capture during the operation. An excellent linguist, he remained in the Army for an extra year, acting as a German translator during the occupation. He was appointed as an area organiser of the Union of Shop, Distributive and Allied Workers in 1946. In 1957, he became President ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1959 United Kingdom General Election
The 1959 United Kingdom general election was held on Thursday, 8 October 1959. The Conservative Party (UK), Conservative Party under the leadership of incumbent prime minister Harold Macmillan won a landslide victory with a majority of 100 seats. This was their third election victory in a row. The Conservatives won the largest number of votes in Scotland, but narrowly failed to win the most seats in that country. They have not made either achievement ever since. Both Jeremy Thorpe, a future Liberal leader, and Margaret Thatcher, a future Conservative leader and eventually Prime Minister, first entered the House of Commons following this election. Background Following the Suez Crisis in 1956, Anthony Eden, the Conservative Party (UK), Conservative Prime Minister, became unpopular. He resigned early in 1957, and was succeeded by Chancellor of the Exchequer Harold Macmillan. At that point, the Labour Party (UK), Labour Party, whose leader Hugh Gaitskell had succeeded Clement Attlee ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Labour Party (UK)
The Labour Party, often referred to as Labour, is a List of political parties in the United Kingdom, political party in the United Kingdom that sits on the Centre-left politics, centre-left of the political spectrum. The party has been described as an alliance of social democrats, democratic socialists and trade unionists. It is one of the Two-party system, two dominant political parties in the United Kingdom; the other being the Conservative Party (UK), Conservative Party. Labour has been led by Keir Starmer since 2020 Labour Party leadership election (UK), 2020, who became Prime Minister of the United Kingdom following the 2024 United Kingdom general election, 2024 general election. To date, there have been 12 Labour governments and seven different Labour Prime Ministers – Ramsay MacDonald, MacDonald, Clement Attlee, Attlee, Harold Wilson, Wilson, James Callaghan, Callaghan, Tony Blair, Blair, Gordon Brown, Brown and Starmer. The Labour Party was founded in 1900, having e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Harrison (Labour Politician)
James Harrison (30 August 1899 – 2 May 1959) was a Labour Party politician in the United Kingdom. He was elected as Member of Parliament (MP) for Nottingham East at the 1945 general election, and held the seat until its abolition for the 1955 general election. He was then returned for the new Nottingham North constituency, and died in office in May 1959, aged 59. No by-election was called after his death, and the Nottingham North seat remained vacant until Parliament In modern politics and history, a parliament is a legislative body of government. Generally, a modern parliament has three functions: Representation (politics), representing the Election#Suffrage, electorate, making laws, and overseeing ... was dissolved on 18 September for the 1959 general election. References * * External links * 1899 births 1959 deaths Labour Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies National Union of Railwaymen-sponsored MPs UK MPs 1945–1950 UK ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1955 United Kingdom General Election
The 1955 United Kingdom general election was held on Thursday 26 May 1955. It was a snap election: Anthony Eden called the election after succeeding Winston Churchill, Churchill in April 1955 to secure a mandate. The Eden ministry, government won a 60-seat majority, achieving the highest post-war party vote share. It was the first election under Elizabeth II, Queen Elizabeth II. Results The election was fought on new boundaries, with five seats added to the 625 fought in 1951. At the same time, the Conservative Party (UK), Conservative Party had returned to power for the first time since World War II and increased its popularity by accepting the mixed economy and Welfare state in the United Kingdom, welfare state created by the previous Labour Party (UK), Labour Party government. It also was lauded for its economic policy after ending Rationing in the United Kingdom, rationing, improving foreign trade, and even outperforming Labour in the construction of Public housing in the U ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1983 United Kingdom General Election
The 1983 United Kingdom general election was held on Thursday 9 June 1983. It gave the Conservative Party (UK), Conservative Party under the leadership of Margaret Thatcher the most decisive election victory since that of the Labour Party (UK), Labour Party in 1945 United Kingdom general election, 1945, with a majority of 144 seats and the first of two consecutive landslide victories. Thatcher's first term as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Prime Minister had not been an easy time. Unemployment increased during the first three years of her premiership and the economy went Early 1980s recession, through a recession. However, the British victory in the Falklands War led to a recovery of her personal popularity, and economic growth had begun to resume. By the time Thatcher called the election in May 1983, opinion polls pointed to a Conservative victory, with most national newspapers backing the re-election of the Conservative government. The resulting win earned the Conserv ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Croydon South (UK Parliament Constituency)
Croydon South is a constituency recreated in 1974 and represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2015 by Chris Philp, a Conservative. Croydon South was originally created in 1918. Political history It was created for the 1918 general election when the County Borough of Croydon had grown so the Croydon seat was split into two seats. The first MP was Ian Malcolm, who had been the MP for all of Croydon. H.T. Muggeridge, father of Malcolm Muggeridge, fought the seat for Labour four times from 1918, later becoming MP for Romford. The seat saw a by-election in 1932, won by Herbert Williams. From 1950 until 1955 the seat was divided into east and west, represented by Conservatives Herbert Williams and Richard Thompson respectively. Croydon South had twice seen Croydon's only Labour MPs before the 1990s. David Rees-Williams held the seat from the 1945 Labour landslide until unfavourable boundary changes in 1950. David Winnick won the seat in 1966 before ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Ottaway
Sir Richard Geoffrey James Ottaway (born 24 May 1945) is a British Conservative Party politician and consultant. He was the Member of Parliament for Croydon South from 1992 to 2015. Ottaway also served as the MP for Nottingham North from 1983 to 1987. Early life Ottaway was born on 24 May 1945 in Sonning, Berkshire. He attended Backwell School, a secondary modern school in Backwell, North Somerset. He joined the Royal Navy as an artificer apprentice in 1961 and undertook officer training at the Britannia Royal Naval College in Dartmouth in 1965. He also served as the Royal Navy officer between 1965 and 1970 as a Lieutenant, deployed in HMS Beachampton, HMS Nubian, and the aircraft carrier HMS Eagle. He served as a lieutenant commander in the Royal Naval Reserve (RNR) from 1971 to 1980. Ottaway studied law at Bristol University, graduating in 1974. He qualified as a solicitor in 1977, specializing in maritime and commercial law, and was a partner of William A. Crump & Son ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nottinghamshire
Nottinghamshire (; abbreviated ''Notts.'') is a ceremonial county in the East Midlands of England. The county is bordered by South Yorkshire to the north-west, Lincolnshire to the east, Leicestershire to the south, and Derbyshire to the west. The largest settlement is the city of Nottingham (323,632), which is also the county town. The county has an area of and a population of 1,154,195. The latter is concentrated in the Nottingham Urban Area, Nottingham built-up area in the south-west, which extends into Derbyshire and has a population of 729,997. The north-east of the county is more rural, and contains the towns of Worksop (44,733) and Newark-on-Trent (27,700). For Local government in England, local government purposes Nottinghamshire comprises a non-metropolitan county, with seven districts, and the Nottingham Unitary authorities of England, unitary authority area. The East Midlands Combined County Authority includes Nottinghamshire County Council and Nottingham City Council. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
