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8 unusual facts about Chief whip


Baron Ponsonby of Shulbrede

The first Baron's grandson, the third Baron, was also a Labour politician and notably served as Opposition Chief Whip in the House of Lords in the 1980s.

Baron Teviot

It was created in 1940 for Charles Kerr, who had previously represented Montrose Burghs in the House of Commons, and served as Chief Whip for the National Liberal Party, a government whip and Comptroller of the Household in the National Government.

Cranborne Money

In addition to the above funds, the salaries of the Leader of the Opposition and Opposition Chief Whip in the House of Lords (currently the Conservative Party), which

Daudi Migereko

In 2006 he was appointed Minister of Energy & Minerals, a position he kept until February 16, 2009 when he was appointed Chief Whip.

Diane Fletcher

In the BBC adaptation of House of Cards and its sequelsTo Play the King and The Final Cut, Fletcher played Elizabeth Urquhart, wife of the murderous Chief Whip of the Conservative Party and later Prime Minister Francis Urquhart (played by Ian Richardson).

Jay Hill

Hill has served in various roles for his party, including Chief Whip as well as the opposition critic for National Defence, Transport and Justice ministries.

John Albert Bright

The Birmingham Conservatives and Lord Randolph Churchill came under pressure from the party’s Chief Whip at Westminster Aretas Akers-Douglas and from Arthur Balfour, who was closely associated with Churchill.

Patrick Buchan-Hepburn, 1st Baron Hailes

Returning to politics in 1945, Buchan-Hepburn became Deputy Whip and then, in 1948, Chief Whip.


Paul Hayter

From 1974 to 1977 he was seconded to the Cabinet Office as Private Secretary to the Leader of the House of Lords and the Government Chief Whip, serving two Leaders, Lord Shepherd (1974-1976) and Lord Peart (from 1976), and one Chief Whip, Baroness Llewelyn-Davies of Hastoe.

Plebs

In September 2012, UK Conservative Party Chief Whip Andrew Mitchell was reported using the word in a tirade directed at police officers in Downing Street.


see also

Adrian Sanders

Following the 2001 election, Sanders was made the Liberal Democrat spokesman for Tourism, and was subsequently moved to the position of Deputy Chief Whip of the Party in Parliament.

Carlton Club meeting

On 18 October Amery told chief whip Leslie Wilson that the Coalition's future should be decided by a party meeting after the election; Wilson obtained Chamberlain's agreement.

Class discrimination

Though Andrew Mitchell, former Chief whip of the UK conservative party was forced to resign after allegedly calling a police officer a pleb for refusing to open the gates to Downing St for him to ride his bike through.

Derek Foster, Baron Foster of Bishop Auckland

After Tony Blair became leader in 1994, he was keen to appoint a new Chief Whip and asked Foster to stand aside, in return for the promise of a seat in the Cabinet if and when Labour returned to power.

Herbert Lewis

In a letter to T. E. Ellis, Lewis wrote to his friend, then Chief Whip: 'I will never again fight a constituency as an official Liberal.'

Shadow Cabinet of Margaret Thatcher

17 January 1978: Lord St Aldwyn retires as Conservative Chief Whip and is replaced by Lord Denham.

Sir George Young, 6th Baronet

When Young's Ealing Acton constituency was abolished because of boundary changes, he was parachuted into the safe Conservative seat of North West Hampshire at the 1997 General Election to replace the retiring MP Sir David Mitchell (the father of Andrew Mitchell who Young would, in 2012, succeed as Chief Whip).

Stéphane Bédard

After the 2008, he was named the House leader of the opposition while being replaced by Pointe-aux-Trembles MNA Nicole Léger as Chief Whip of the PQ.

West Quantoxhead

Alexander Fuller-Acland-Hood PC was the Conservative Party Member of Parliament for Wellington from 1892 until 1911, Vice-Chamberlain of the Household from 1900 to 1902 and Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasury (Chief Whip) from 1902 until 1905.