X-Nico

unusual facts about British politics



Sonika Nirwal

In 2006 she was elected as the leader of the Ealing Labour group, the first Asian women to have done so in British politics, and was widely expected to succeed MP Piara Khabra as the next Labour Member of Parliament for the said constituency.


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Earl of Mayo

The tenth Earl was involved in British politics and unsuccessfully contested South Dorset in the 1964 general election as a Liberal.

John Calcraft

Calcraft was by now one of the most influential behind-the-scenes figures in British politics, working hand-in-glove with Fox, and was particularly deeply involved in the discussions to construct a government following the fall of Bute in 1763.

Martti Häikiö

His doctoral dissertation concerns the British politics on Finland before and during the Winter War and has thereafter published a lot of popular works on modern Finnish history and corporate history, such as Nokia, the inside story (2002).

Millbank

In British politics, the term 'Millbank Machine' or 'Millbank tendency' (a play on 'Militant tendency') has been linked with the activities of spin doctors.

Pippa Norris

She has served on executive bodies for the American Political Science Association (APSA), the International Political Science Association (IPSA), the Political Studies Association of the United Kingdom (PSA), and the British Politics Group of APSA.

Samuel Hoare, 1st Viscount Templewood

R.J.Q. Adams, Stanford University British Politics and Foreign Policy in the Age of Appeasement, 1935-1939, Stanford University Press, (1993), 204 pages.