DOCSLIB.ORG

Reshuffle 2014 - the New Government Line Up

Total Page：16

File Type：pdf, Size：1020Kb

Download full-text PDF Read full-text
Reshuffle 2014 - the New Government Line Up Reshuffle 2014 - The new Government line up 1 Whip’s Office Michael Gove MP • New Position: Chief Whip • Previous position: Secretary of State for Education • Entered the House: 2005 • Political Interests: Education, crime, terrorism • Interesting Fact: A member of the winning team in Grampian Television's quiz show Top Club Lord Ashton of Hyde • New Position: Government Whip, House of Lords • Previous position: None • Entered the House: 2011 • Political Interests: Water, banking and finance • Interesting Fact: Gained the rank of Lieutenant with the Royal Wessex Yeomanry Anne Milton MP • New Position: Lord Commissioner, HM Treasury, Whip • Previous position: Parliamentary Under Secretary, Department of Health • Entered the House: 2005 • Political Interests: Environment, health and social care, voluntary sector • Interesting Fact: Worked in the NHS as a Nurse 2 Foreign Office/EU Commissioner Phillip Hammond MP • New Position: Foreign Secretary • Previous position: Secretary of State for Defence • Entered the House: 1997 • Political Interests: Economic policy, international trade, EU, defence • Interesting Fact: Said that if there was a vote now he would consider voting to leave EU Tobias Ellwood MP • New Position: Parliamentary Under Secretary to the Foreign Office • Previous position: Shadow Minister Culture, Media and Sport • Entered the House: 2005 • Political Interests: Defence, education, environment, tourism • Interesting Fact: Was a senior business manager at the London Stock Exchange Lord Hill of Oareford • New Position: EU Commissioner (nominated by PM) • Previous position: Leader of the House of Lords and Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster • Entered the House: 2010 • Political Interests: EU, education, constitution • Interesting Fact: Ex Special Advisor to Ken Clarke 3 Ministry of Defence Michael Fallon MP • New Position: Secretary of State for Defence • Previous position: Minister for State, joint brief Business, Innovation and Skills and Energy and Climate Change • Entered the House: 1983-92, 1997 • Political Interests: Constitution, public sector, education, economy • Interesting Fact: While he was out of Parliament he was a director for Quality Care Homes Anna Soubry MP • New position: Minister of State, Ministry of Defence • Previous position: Parliamentary Under Secretary, Ministry of Defence • Entered the House: 2010 • Political interests: Culture, media and sport, justice, foreign affairs, transport • Interesting Fact: Has a majority of 389 Julian Brazier MP • New position: Parliamentary Under Secretary, Ministry of Defence • Previous position: Shadow Minister, Transport 2005-2010 • Entered the House: 1987 • Political interests: Defence, foreign affairs, economics, law and order, families, countryside • Interesting Fact: Member of the Cornerstone group of Conservative MP’s 4 HM Treasury David Gauke MP • New position: Financial Secretary to the Treasury • Previous position: Exchequer Secretary to the Treasury • Entered the House: 2010 • Political interests: Care and quality of life for the elderly, healthcare, defence, the arts, space • Interesting Fact: Life long supporter of Ipswich Town F.C Priti Patel MP • New position: Exchequer Secretary to the Treasury • Previous position: Member of Members expense committee • Entered the House: 2010 • Political interests: Trade, business, economy, law and order • Interesting Fact: Headed the press office of the Referendum Party in for the 1997 general election 5 Business Innovation & Skills Matthew Hancock MP • New Position: Minister for State, Business, Enterprise and Energy, (Now attending Cabinet) • Previous position: Minister of State, shared brief, Business, Innovation and Skills and Education • Entered the House: 2010 • Political Interests: Economic policy, business, education • Interesting Fact: Worked as an economist for the Bank of England Edward Vaizey MP • New position: Minister of State, Digital Industries, Both Business, Innovation and Skills and Culture Media and Sport • Previous position: Parliamentary Under-Secretary Culture, Media and Sport • Entered the House: 2005 • Political interests: Arts, architecture, technology, environment • Interesting Fact: Regarded as a moderniser Greg Clark MP • New position: Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills and Universities and Science • Previous position: Leader of the House of Lords and Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster • Entered the House: 2005 • Political interests: Economics, financial services, cities, poverty, welfare reform • Interesting Fact: Ex member of the Social Democrat Party 6 Business Innovation & Skills Nick Boles MP • New Position: Minister of State for Skills, Enterprise and Equalities in the Department of Business, Innovation and Skills & Department of Education • Previous position: Parliamentary Under Secretary, Department of Communities and Local Government • Entered the House: 2010 • Political Interests: Education, local government, foreign affairs • Interesting Fact: Shared a flat with Michael Gove George Freeman MP • New position: Minister for Life Sciences in the Department of Business, Innovation and Skills & Health • Previous position: None • Entered the House: 2010 • Political interests: Constitution, crime, civil society, localism, life sciences • Interesting Fact: Chairman of the All Party Group on Science and Technology in Agriculture 7 Cabinet Office William Hague MP • New Position: First Secretary of State, Leader of the House • Previous position: Foreign Secretary • Entered the House: 1989 • Political Interests: Agriculture, economic policy • Interesting Fact:: Noted and popular nonfiction writer Joe Johnson MP • New position: Minister of State for the Cabinet Office • Previous position: Parliamentary Under Secretary, Ministry of Justice • Entered the House: 2005 • Political interests: Criminal justice, education, foreign affairs • Interesting Fact: Practised as a lawyer specialising in Criminal Law 8 Attorney General’s Office Robert Buckland MP • New Position: Solicitor General • Previous position: None • Entered the House: 2010 • Political Interests: Criminal justice, constitutional affairs, foreign affairs, education • Interesting Fact: Recommended that prisoners phones should be sold and the money given to victims charities Jeremy Wright MP • New position: Attorney General • Previous position: Parliamentary Under Secretary, Cabinet Office • Entered the House: 2010 • Political interests: Business, finance • Interesting Fact: Former banker and journalist 9 Cabinet Office Oliver Letwin MP • New Position: Minister of Government Policy Cabinet Office and Privy Seal • Previous position: Minister of Government Policy, Cabinet Office • Entered the House: 1997 • Political Interests: Education, elections and campaigning, political ideas and philosophy • Interesting Fact: Member of Margaret Thatcher’s policy unit between 1983-86 Brookes Newmark MP • New position: Parliamentary Under Secretary, Cabinet Office • Previous position: Whips office 2010-12 • Entered the House: 2005 • Political interests: Economic policy, special needs education, poverty reduction • Interesting Fact: A noted critic of quantitative easing 10 Work and Pensions Esther McVey MP • New Position: Minister of State, Department for Work and Pensions (Now attending Cabinet) • Previous position: Minister of State at the Department for Work and Pensions • Entered the House: 2010 • Political Interests: Business innovation and skills, education, transport, health • Interesting Fact: Used to be co-host of GMTV Mark Harper MP • New Position: Minister of State, Department of Work and Pensions • Previous position: Minister of State for Immigration 2012-2014 • Entered the House: 2005 • Political Interests: Education, special needs education, law and order, health, defence • Interesting Fact: Former accountant and financial analyst 11 Transport John Hayes • New Position: Minister of State for Transport and the Cabinet Office • Previous position: Minister of State of the Cabinet Office • Entered the House: 1997 • Political Interests: Education, elections and campaigning, political ideas and philosophy • Interesting Fact: Since 2009 he has been the honorary Chairman of the British Caribbean society Claire Perry MP • New position: Parliamentary Under Secretary, Department of Transport • Previous position: Assistant Whip • Entered the House: 2010 • Political interests: Economy, education, defence, justice, international development • Interesting Fact: Worked in Banking and Finance for Bank or America and Credit Suisse 12 Department of Communities and Local Government Brandon Lewis MP • New Position: Minister of State, Department of Communities and Local Government • Previous position: Parliamentary Under Secretary, Department of Communities and Local Government • Entered the House: 2010 • Political Interests: Tourism, local government, coastal erosion, business, transport • Interesting Fact: During his time as leader of Brentwood council he co-hosted The Eric and Brandon Show with local MP Eric Pickles on Phoenix FM, Penny Mordaunt MP • New position: Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Department of Communities and Local Government • Previous position: None • Entered the House: 2010 • Political interests: Care and quality of life for the elderly, healthcare, defence, the arts, space • Interesting Fact: Appeared on the Television programme ‘Splash’ Lord Ahmed of Wimbledon • New position: Parliamentary Under Secretary, Department of Communities and Local Government • Previous position: Lords spokesman,
Load more

Recommended publications
  • THE 422 Mps WHO BACKED the MOTION Conservative 1. Bim
    THE 422 MPs WHO BACKED THE MOTION Conservative 1. Bim Afolami 2. Peter Aldous 3. Edward Argar 4. Victoria Atkins 5. Harriett Baldwin 6. Steve Barclay 7. Henry Bellingham 8. Guto Bebb 9. Richard Benyon 10. Paul Beresford 11. Peter Bottomley 12. Andrew Bowie 13. Karen Bradley 14. Steve Brine 15. James Brokenshire 16. Robert Buckland 17. Alex Burghart 18. Alistair Burt 19. Alun Cairns 20. James Cartlidge 21. Alex Chalk 22. Jo Churchill 23. Greg Clark 24. Colin Clark 25. Ken Clarke 26. James Cleverly 27. Thérèse Coffey 28. Alberto Costa 29. Glyn Davies 30. Jonathan Djanogly 31. Leo Docherty 32. Oliver Dowden 33. David Duguid 34. Alan Duncan 35. Philip Dunne 36. Michael Ellis 37. Tobias Ellwood 38. Mark Field 39. Vicky Ford 40. Kevin Foster 41. Lucy Frazer 42. George Freeman 43. Mike Freer 44. Mark Garnier 45. David Gauke 46. Nick Gibb 47. John Glen 48. Robert Goodwill 49. Michael Gove 50. Luke Graham 51. Richard Graham 52. Bill Grant 53. Helen Grant 54. Damian Green 55. Justine Greening 56. Dominic Grieve 57. Sam Gyimah 58. Kirstene Hair 59. Luke Hall 60. Philip Hammond 61. Stephen Hammond 62. Matt Hancock 63. Richard Harrington 64. Simon Hart 65. Oliver Heald 66. Peter Heaton-Jones 67. Damian Hinds 68. Simon Hoare 69. George Hollingbery 70. Kevin Hollinrake 71. Nigel Huddleston 72. Jeremy Hunt 73. Nick Hurd 74. Alister Jack (Teller) 75. Margot James 76. Sajid Javid 77. Robert Jenrick 78. Jo Johnson 79. Andrew Jones 80. Gillian Keegan 81. Seema Kennedy 82. Stephen Kerr 83. Mark Lancaster 84.
    [Show full text]
  • Download (9MB)
    A University of Sussex PhD thesis Available online via Sussex Research Online: http://sro.sussex.ac.uk/ This thesis is protected by copyright which belongs to the author. This thesis cannot be reproduced or quoted extensively from without first obtaining permission in writing from the Author The content must not be changed in any way or sold commercially in any format or medium without the formal permission of the Author When referring to this work, full bibliographic details including the author, title, awarding institution and date of the thesis must be given Please visit Sussex Research Online for more information and further details 2018 Behavioural Models for Identifying Authenticity in the Twitter Feeds of UK Members of Parliament A CONTENT ANALYSIS OF UK MPS’ TWEETS BETWEEN 2011 AND 2012; A LONGITUDINAL STUDY MARK MARGARETTEN Mark Stuart Margaretten Submitted for the degree of Doctor of PhilosoPhy at the University of Sussex June 2018 1 Table of Contents TABLE OF CONTENTS ........................................................................................................................ 1 DECLARATION .................................................................................................................................. 4 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ...................................................................................................................... 5 FIGURES ........................................................................................................................................... 6 TABLES ............................................................................................................................................
    [Show full text]
  • Whole Day Download the Hansard
    Monday Volume 663 8 July 2019 No. 326 HOUSE OF COMMONS OFFICIAL REPORT PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES (HANSARD) Monday 8 July 2019 © Parliamentary Copyright House of Commons 2019 This publication may be reproduced under the terms of the Open Parliament licence, which is published at www.parliament.uk/site-information/copyright/. HER MAJESTY’S GOVERNMENT MEMBERS OF THE CABINET (FORMED BY THE RT HON. THERESA MAY, MP, JUNE 2017) PRIME MINISTER,FIRST LORD OF THE TREASURY AND MINISTER FOR THE CIVIL SERVICE—The Rt Hon. Theresa May, MP CHANCELLOR OF THE DUCHY OF LANCASTER AND MINISTER FOR THE CABINET OFFICE—The Rt Hon. David Lidington, MP CHANCELLOR OF THE EXCHEQUER—The Rt Hon. Philip Hammond, MP SECRETARY OF STATE FOR THE HOME DEPARTMENT—The Rt Hon. Sajid Javid, MP SECRETARY OF STATE FOR FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS—The Rt. Hon Jeremy Hunt, MP SECRETARY OF STATE FOR EXITING THE EUROPEAN UNION—The Rt Hon. Stephen Barclay, MP SECRETARY OF STATE FOR DEFENCE AND MINISTER FOR WOMEN AND EQUALITIES—The Rt Hon. Penny Mordaunt, MP LORD CHANCELLOR AND SECRETARY OF STATE FOR JUSTICE—The Rt Hon. David Gauke, MP SECRETARY OF STATE FOR HEALTH AND SOCIAL CARE—The Rt Hon. Matt Hancock, MP SECRETARY OF STATE FOR BUSINESS,ENERGY AND INDUSTRIAL STRATEGY—The Rt Hon. Greg Clark, MP SECRETARY OF STATE FOR INTERNATIONAL TRADE AND PRESIDENT OF THE BOARD OF TRADE—The Rt Hon. Liam Fox, MP SECRETARY OF STATE FOR WORK AND PENSIONS—The Rt Hon. Amber Rudd, MP SECRETARY OF STATE FOR EDUCATION—The Rt Hon. Damian Hinds, MP SECRETARY OF STATE FOR ENVIRONMENT,FOOD AND RURAL AFFAIRS—The Rt Hon.
    [Show full text]
  • Support for UK Victims of IRA Attacks That Used Gaddafi-Supplied Semtex and Weapons: Follow-Up
    House of Commons Northern Ireland Affairs Committee HM Government support for UK victims of IRA attacks that used Gaddafi-supplied Semtex and weapons: follow-up Seventh Report of Session 2017–19 Report, together with formal minutes relating to the report Ordered by the House of Commons to be printed 3 April 2019 HC 1723 Published on 9 April 2019 by authority of the House of Commons Northern Ireland Affairs Committee The Northern Ireland Affairs Committee is appointed by the House of Commons to examine the expenditure, administration, and policy of the Northern Ireland Office (but excluding individual cases and advice given by the Crown Solicitor); and other matters within the responsibilities of the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland (but excluding the expenditure, administration and policy of the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions, Northern Ireland and the drafting of legislation by the Office of the Legislative Counsel). Current membership Dr Andrew Murrison MP (Conservative, South West Wiltshire) (Chair) Mr Gregory Campbell MP (Democratic Unionist Party, East Londonderry) Maria Caulfield MP (Conservative, Lewes) Mr Robert Goodwill MP (Conservative, Scarborough and Whitby) John Grogan MP (Labour, Keighley) Mr Stephen Hepburn MP (Labour, Jarrow) Lady Hermon MP (Independent, North Down) Kate Hoey MP (Labour, Vauxhall) Conor McGinn MP (Labour, St Helens North) Nigel Mills MP (Conservative, Amber Valley) Ian Paisley MP (Democratic Unionist Party, North Antrim) Jim Shannon MP (Democratic Unionist Party, Strangford) Bob Stewart MP (Conservative, Beckenham) Powers © Parliamentary Copyright House of Commons 2019. This publication may be reproduced under the terms of the Open Parliament Licence, which is published at www.parliament.uk/copyright.
    [Show full text]
  • Dr Andrew (William) MURRISON Conservative WESTBURY '01
    Dr Andrew (William) MURRISON Conservative WESTBURY ‘01 Majority: 5,294 (10.5%) over LibDem 5-way Description: "My constituency straddles much of the territory that lies between Bath and Salisbury" (AM): four towns in west Wiltshire, including Westbury itself, the county town of Trowbridge, with its Cow & Gate headquarters, Bradford on Avon and Warminster, with its Army presence, plus a rural hinterland; near Edington in the constituency "King Alfred finally defeated the Danes and... founded the kingdom of Wessex"; "nestling under the escarpment of Salisbury plain is the ancient settlement of Westbury with its famous chalk white horse" (AM); in '95 it lost its most Labour- inclined town, Melksham, to the Devizes constituency; more oddly, in '00 it lost Harold Macmillan's 39-year-old grandson, Old Etonian David Faber, who had served 9 years as its MP; Position: Ex: Assistant to Lord Freeman, Conservative Central Office '99-00; Research Assistant, to Fareham's Sir Peter Lloyd '99-01; Outlook: His relatively late arrival in politics after a career as a Royal Navy doctor, was eased by his post as assistant to Lord Freeman in the Candidates Department at Conservative Central Office, from which he landed a safeish Westcountry seat at his first electoral outing; he "strenuously opposes membership of a European super-state" (WILTSHIRE TIMES); he backed the less Eurosceptic Michael Portillo and not Iain Duncan Smith in the '01 Leadership ballots; History: He joined the Conservative Party at 16, '77; he was politically inactive while serving fulltime
    [Show full text]
  • Bibliography
    BIBLIOGRAPHY A. INTERVIEWS Jacob Rees-Mogg MP (London), 9th February 2016. Jesse Norman MP (London), 12th September 2016. Nicholas Winterton (Cheshire), 23rd September 2016. Ann Winterton (Cheshire), 23rd September 2016. Peter Hitchens (London), 11th October 2016. Anne Widdecombe (London), 11th October 2016. Lord Salisbury (London), 12th October 2016. Sir William Cash MP (London), 13th October 2016. Sir Edward Leigh MP (London), 17th January 2017. David Burrowes MP (London), 17th January 2017. Charles Moore (London), 17th January 2017. Philip Davies MP (London), 19th January 2017. Sir Gerald Howarth MP (London), 19th January 2017. Dr. Myles Harris (London), 27th January 2017. Lord Sudeley (London), 6th February 2017. Jonathan Aitken (London), 6th February 2017. David Nicholson (London), 13th February 2017. Gregory Lauder-Frost (telephone), 23rd February 2017. Richard Ritchie (London), 8th March 2017. Tim Janman (London), 27th March 2017. Lord Deben (London), 4th April 2017. Lord Griffths of Fforestfach (London), 6th April 2017. Lord Tebbit (London), 6th April 2017. Sir Adrian Fitzgerald (London), 10th April 2017. © The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2020 191 K. Hickson, Britain’s Conservative Right since 1945, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-27697-3 192 BIBLIOGRAPHY Edward Norman (telephone), 28th April 2017. Cedric Gunnery (London), 2nd May 2017. Paul Bristol (London), 3rd May 2017. Harvey Thomas (London), 3rd May 2017. Ian Crowther (telephone), 12th May 2017. Iain Duncan Smith MP (London), 4th July 2017. Angela Ellis-Jones (London), 4th July 2017. John Hayes MP (London), 4th July 2017. Dennis Walker (London), 24th July 2017. Lord Howard of Lympne (London), 12th September 2017.
    [Show full text]
  • Appendix: “Ideology, Grandstanding, and Strategic Party Disloyalty in the British Parliament”
    Appendix: \Ideology, Grandstanding, and Strategic Party Disloyalty in the British Parliament" August 8, 2017 Appendix Table of Contents • Appendix A: Wordscores Estimation of Ideology • Appendix B: MP Membership in Ideological Groups • Appendix C: Rebellion on Different Types of Divisions • Appendix D: Models of Rebellion on Government Sponsored Bills Only • Appendix E: Differences in Labour Party Rebellion Following Leadership Change • Appendix F: List of Party Switchers • Appendix G: Discussion of Empirical Model Appendix A: Wordscores Estimation of Ideology This Appendix describes our method for ideologically scaling British MPs using their speeches on the welfare state, which were originally produced for a separate study on welfare reform (O'Grady, 2017). We cover (i) data collection, (ii) estimation, (iii) raw results, and (iv) validity checks. The resulting scales turn out to be highly valid, and provide an excellent guide to MPs' ideologies using data that is completely separate to the voting data that forms the bulk of the evidence in our paper. A1: Collection of Speech Data Speeches come from an original collection of every speech made about issues related to welfare in the House of Commons from 1987-2007, covering the period over which the Labour party moved 1 to the center under Tony Blair, adopted and enacted policies of welfare reform, and won office at the expense of the Conservatives. Restricting the speeches to a single issue area is useful for estimating ideologies because with multiple topics there is a danger of conflating genuine extremism (a tendency to speak in extreme ways) with a tendency or requirement to talk a lot about topics that are relatively extreme to begin with (Lauderdale and Herzog, 2016).
    [Show full text]
  • News from the Bath & West Co- Operative Party
    News from the Bath & West Co- operative Party Although we don't have local council elections in our area, there are plenty of activities in the coming weeks you could participate in. On Saturday 5 May we're supporting our comrades in Wells Labour Party marking international workers' day with a march, rally and fun family activities. The flags and banners parade opens the event at noon, if you want to join the march assemble from 11.30am at the North End of Sadler Street before setting off for the Bishop's Barn on Silver Street where all activities are based. The is the first of what Wells Labour hopes will be an annual event on May Day bank holiday weekend. We are aiming to produce a new Bath & West Co-op Party banner so please come along and support us. More details of this free event online via the Eventbrite website Meanwhile, in Bath… The 10th Larkhall Festival is also planned for all four days of the weekend. The full programme is available online. We're planning to join our colleagues from the Bath Co-operative Alliance on Sunday 6 May who will be marching as suffragettes in the Fancy Dress Procession – meet at The Bladuds Head pub (Catsley Place, St Saviour's Road, BA1 6TA) at 12.45 to set off at 1pm. Windrush scandal – something urgent we can all do At April's meeting we had a passionate discussion about the unfolding Windrush scandal. As you might expect from dedicated co-operators, we were appalled at the shocking treatment of bona fide British citizens.
    [Show full text]
  • A View from Our House Is Attached)
    Dear Mrs Lane, I am writing to you following the Public Information Day on 16 April organised by Wessex Solar Energy. It was useful to have the opportunity to talk to the representatives who said they were genuinely surprised by the number of people who attended, and the depth of feeling about this proposal. I am not sure what the next step is with your Council, but I did see the Notice of Planning Application from Wessex in the paper last week. I note that only Landowners and Tenants are invited to make representations about this, whereas I think there are many people, like us, in the 2 villages who are very concerned. I am attaching a note I made after that public Information Day which you may consider relevant. Secondly, I wrote to our MP, Andrew Murrison congratulating him, and mentioning this proposal. His reply on 12 May included the following quote: “On solar, I will resist if it’s an eyesore and believe alternatives should stand on their own financial merits rather than rely on subsidy Best wishes, Andrew Dr Andrew Murrison MP for South West Wiltshire Well I think there is little doubt that it would be a very significant eyesore to many homes in our village. (A view from our house is attached). It would significantly affect our enjoyment of the local countryside and spoil the footpaths – whatever WSE say about fencing them off. Thirdly, I see that the Government policy is that these solar installations should not be placed on agricultural land. I’m sure you are aware that this was actually announced last year, and earlier this year.
    [Show full text]
  • Ideology, Grandstanding, and Strategic Party Disloyalty in British Parliament∗
    Ideology, Grandstanding, and Strategic Party Disloyalty in British Parliament∗ Jonathan B. Slapiny Justin H. Kirklandz Joseph A. Lazzarox [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Patrick A. Leslie{ Tom O'Gradyk [email protected] [email protected] Abstract Strong party discipline is a core feature of Westminster parliamentary systems. Parties typically compel Members of Parliament (MPs) to support the party position regardless of MPs' indi- vidual preferences. Rebellion, however, does occur. Using an original dataset of MP votes and speeches in the British House of Commons from 1992 to 2015, coupled with new estimations of MPs' ideological positions within their party, we find evidence that MPs use rebellion to strategi- cally differentiate themselves from their party. The strategy MPs employ is contingent upon an interaction of ideological extremity with party control of government. Extremists are loyal when their party is in the opposition, but these same extremists become more likely to rebel when their party controls government. Additionally, they emphasize their rebellion through speeches. Existing models of rebellion and party discipline do not account for government agenda control and do not explain these patterns. Keywords: Legislative Politics; Party Loyalty; Ideological Extremity; House of Com- mons ∗We will make the full replication code and data available upon publication of the article. yDepartment of Government, University of Essex zDepartment of Political Science, University of Houston xDepartment of Political Science, University of Houston {Department of Political Science, University of Essex kDepartment of Political Science, MIT 1 Introduction During David Cameron's first term as Conservative Prime Minister, Philip Hollobone | a socially conservative member of the Tory rightwing | was the most rebellious MP in the House of Commons.
    [Show full text]
  • Dr Andrew Murrison MP MP for South West Wiltshire Ex Royal Navy
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 Gregory Campbell Sir Edward Richard Drax MP James Gray MP Richard Bacon MP Rt Hon Gregory Andrew Selous MP Dan Jarvis MBE MP Simon Hart MP Kris Hopkins MP Mark Lancaster Rt Hon Nicholas Rt Hon Desmond Ian Liddell-Grainger Julian Brazier TD MP Richard Benyon MP Stephen Barclay MP Tobias Ellwood MP MP Leigh MP MP for South Dorset MP for North MP for South Barker MP MP for South West MP for Barnsley MP for Carmarthen MP for Keighley TD MP Soames MP Swayne TD MP MP MP for Canterbury MP for Newbury MP for North East MP for MP for East MP for Ex Coldstream Wiltshire Norfolk MP for Bexhill and Bedfordshire Central West and South Ex Duke of MP for Milton MP for Mid Sussex MP for New Forest MP for Bridgwater Ex 21 Special Air Ex Royal Green Cambridgeshire Bournemouth East Londonderry Gainsborough Guards Ex Honourable Ex Intelligence Battle Ex Honourable Ex The Parachute Pembrokeshire Wellington’s Keynes North Ex 11th Hussars West and West Somerset Service (Artists) Jackets Ex Royal Regiment Ex Royal Green Ex Ulster Defence Ex The Honourable Artillery Company Corps (Territorial Ex Honourable Artillery Company Regiment Ex Royal Regiment Ex Queen’s Gurkha (Prince Albert’s Current, Royal Ex Royal Regiment (Territorial Army) of Fusiliers Jackets Regiment Artillery Company (Territorial Army) Army) Artillery Company and Royal Regiment Gloucestershire Engineers Own)) Mercian and of Fusiliers Current, Military (Territorial Army) of Fusiliers Hussars (Territorial Current, Royal Lancastrian (Territorial Army)
    [Show full text]
  • Religious Right
    Is there a ‘Religious Right’ Emerging in Britain? Is there a ‘Religious Right’ Emerging in Britian? Andy Walton in Britian? Andy Emerging Right’ ‘Religious a Is there Recent years have seen an increasing number of This report gives a reliable overview of evidence claims that a US-style Religious Right either exists or concerning the purported rise of the Christian is rapidly emerging in Britain. This report examines Right in Britian. Drawing on new research, it profiles Is there a ‘Religious Right’ whether or not the claims are accurate. several new Christian groups. By placing them in context, it shows why rumours that an American- Superficially, it argues, the case looks quite strong: style movement is crossing the Atlantic are greatly there is evidence of greater co-ordination among exaggerated. Christian groups with a strong socially-conservative Emerging in Britain? commitment, in particular relating to human Linda Woodhead, Professor of Sociology of sexuality, marriage, family life, and religious freedom, Religion, Lancaster University about which they are vocal and often willing to resort to legal action. This is a familiar picture within US This is a measured and thoughtful piece of research, politics. contributing to a topic where there is too much heat Andy Walton and too little light in contemporary debate. It assesses However, on closer inspection, research and analysis the presence – or, rather, the current absence – of a suggest that it is highly misleading to describe this coherent ‘Religious Right’ in British politics through with phenomenon as a US-style Religious Right. For a a detailed comparison with the characteristics of the number of reasons – economic, social, ecclesiastical movement in the US.
    [Show full text]