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unusual facts about Members of Parliament



1972 and 1973 Dublin bombings

William Craig, leader of the Unionist Vanguard movement, addressed a meeting of right-wing MPs in Westminster who belonged to the Monday Club on 19 October during which he claimed he could mobilise 80,000 men who "are prepared to come out and shoot and kill".

Abjuration

In England, an Oath of Abjuration was taken by Members of Parliament, clergy, and laymen, pledging to support the current British monarch and repudiated the right of the Stuarts and other claimants to the throne.

Colne Valley

Notable former MPs for the constituency include Victor Grayson and Richard Wainwright.

Dissolution of the Parliament of the United Kingdom

Members of Parliament cease to be so, as soon as it is dissolved, and, although they and their staff continue to be paid until polling day, they may not enter the Palace of Westminster.

James Peggs

In 1813, when the British parliament was considering the renewal of the charter that authorized Company's trade and political control in India, Members of Parliament who were evangelical Christians, especially Methodists and Baptists, inducedforced the Company to permit missionaries to settle in their territory.

John Edmund Parry

In 1987, Parry was one of three New Democratic Party Members of Parliament (MPs) to heckle American President Ronald Reagan during an address by the president to the Canadian House of Commons (Toronto Star, 6 June 2004).

Kent International Gateway

Since the site is located principally in a designated Special Landscape Area in the lee of the Kent Downs (an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty) and with close proximity to the historic medieval villages of Bearsted, Thurnham, Hollingbourne and Lenham, the project received extensive criticism and objections from local residents and Members of Parliament.

Laurentian Leadership Centre

Previous internships have included: the Prime Minister's Office (which hosts one intern each semester), foreign embassies, offices of Members of Parliament and Senators, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Mitel, World Vision, Make Poverty History, the National Arts Centre, RBC Capital Markets, the Ottawa Citizen newspaper, and a variety of others.

Leader of the Liberal Democrats

The Liberal Democrat members elect the United Kingdom Liberal Democrat Leader and the Members of Parliament elect the Liberal Democrat Deputy Leader.

Mehamn

They received very light sentences in jail and then the following autumn, general elections were held, and the Labour Party, which had fought for the protection of the whales, entered parliament for the first time with four MPs.

Nova Scotia Liberal Party

The two parties have a shared membership, and Liberal Members of Parliament often become Liberal Members of the Legislative Assembly, and vice versa.

Police Long Service and Good Conduct Medal

A national campaign to change the period of service to 20 years was started by Warwickshire Police Officer Kenneth Fowler, and supported by Chief Officers, the Police Federations and Members of Parliament.

Shire Hall, Monmouth

The Grand Jury included Lord Granville Somerset, brother of the Duke of Beaufort; John Etherington Welch Rolls; Octavius Morgan; and four Members of Parliament, Joseph Bailey, William Addams Williams, Reginald James Blewitt, and Sir Benjamin Hall.

Some Honourable Members

Each episode featured several Members of Parliament in a panel discussion on current political topics.

Vote-OK

Its main aim is to galvanise and organise more people to get involved in political campaigning in order to defeat any Members of Parliament which voted in favour of the Hunting Act 2004.

William Romaine Callender

He was elected as a member of the first Manchester School Board in 1870, and in 1874 as one of three members of parliament for the Parliamentary Borough of Manchester, defeating the Liberal MP, Jacob Bright.


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Anne of Bohemia

The marriage was against the wishes of many members of his nobility and members of parliament, and occurred primarily at the instigation of Richard's intimate, Michael de la Pole.

Arya Samaj in Fiji

Some Arya Samaji members of Parliament since independence have been Vijay R. Singh, Kamlesh Kumar Arya, Surendra Prasad, Anand Singh and Davendra Singh.

Australian Agricultural Company

Amongst the principal members of this company were the Attorney-General and the Solicitor-General of England, 28 Members of Parliament, including Mr. Brougham, and Mr. Joseph Hume, the Governor, Deputy Governor and eight of the directors of the Bank of England; the Chairman and Deputy-Chairman and five directors of the British East India Company, besides many other eminent bankers and merchants of England.

Australian Labor Party Caucus

The Federal Parliamentary Australian Labor Party, commonly known as The Caucus which consists of the Federal Labor Party's currently elected members of Parliament, is divided along formal factional lines.

Binayak Sen

On 7 June 2007, the British House of Commons published an Early Day Motion entitled "Arrest of Dr. Binayak Sen" supported by several Members of Parliament across party lines, including Diane Abbott (Labour), Peter Bottomley (Conservative), John Hemming (Liberal Democrat), Dai Davies (Independent, Wales), Mike Weir (Scottish NP), among others.

Dauda Kamara

He is a member of the All People's Congress from the Kambia District, one of only 3 APC Members of Parliament from that district.

David Adeang

Opposition MPs, Adeang included, constituted a majority of legislators present, and passed a ruling outlawing dual citizenship for Members of Parliament.

Dean Nalder

His father, Cambell Nalder, and grandfather, Crawford Nalder, were National Party members of parliament.

Derek Laud

Laud recommended the recruitment of Conservative Members of Parliament Michael Colvin and Neil Hamilton as consultants for SNI.

Donald Watson Davis

Born in Londonderry, Vermont, Donald was first elected to the Canadian House of Commons in the 1887 Canadian federal election to be one of the first Members of Parliament to represent the Northwest Territories.

Edirimanne Corea Family Union

Various buildings in Chilaw have been named after Srikuradas Charles Shirley Corea and Harindra Corea who represented the town as members of parliament.

Fourteenth Amendment

Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution of Pakistan, which gave party leaders the power to dismiss dissenting members of parliament

Frank Bowles, Baron Bowles

His few prominent campaigns included better pay for Members of Parliament, although he did also press for safer motor racing after the Le Mans disaster of 1955.

Frederic Festus Kelly

In 1845–1847, Kelly was sharply criticized by some members of Parliament, particularly Thomas Duncombe, and accused of using his office for his private benefit and for requiring letter-carriers to assist in gathering information for the directory.

Guy Drut

The move caused great controversy, including within the majority members of Parliament: president of the National Assembly Jean-Louis Debré commented that it gave an unpleasant impression of "self-washing machine" but said it was a "courageous" move that he would not have made;

History of Reading, Berkshire

Reading maintained its representation by two members of parliament with the Reform Act 1832, and the borough was one of the ones reformed as a municipal borough by the Municipal Corporations Act 1835.

Hugo Meynell

In 1762 Meynell was elected as one of the two members of parliament for Lichfield, after filing an election petition challenging the election of John Levett of Wychnor, Staffordshire.

Italy–USA Foundation

The foundation organizes meetings between Italian members of Parliament and US Senators and Representatives to discuss about legislation and cultural issues, also in partnership with the American Legislative Exchange Council.

Justice Building

The Justice Building designed by Thomas W. Fuller in Ottawa was previously home to the Department of Justice (Canada), and now houses offices of Members of Parliament.

Knowledge Politics

Three Members of Parliament have contributed to Knowledge Politics publications: Derek Wyatt MP (Labour Party), Andrew Gwynne MP (Labour Party) and Pete Wishart (Scottish National Party).

Law of Malaysia

Federal laws are made by legislators (members of Parliament and senators) sitting in the Parliament of Malaysia and applies nationwide.

Le Roux Smith Le Roux

With allegations left unanswered, Le Roux's campaign gained support from scholars (Denis Mahon), art critics (Denys Sutton of the Financial Times), members of parliament, and the press (Kingsley Martin of the New Statesman).

Maasai people

In Eastern Africa, uncircumcised women, even those highly educated members of parliament like Linah Kilimo, can be accused of not being mature enough to be taken seriously.

Malta Colony

During the Second World War, Ugo Pasquale Mifsud and George Borg Olivier were the only remaining Nationalist members of parliament of Malta.

Megan Leslie

Leslie was chosen as one of the "five best Canadian members of Parliament" by the The Mark News.

Mikael Storsjö

The Russian ambassador to Finland, Mr. Vladimir Grinin then asked Finnish members of Parliament why it was allowed in Finland to keep the Kavkaz Center website on Finnish servers and nothing had been done about it.

Neil Thorne

In 1989, Thorne founded the Armed Forces Parliamentary Scheme, which aims to improve the quality of debate on military issues, and does this by exposing Members of Parliament to first-hand experience of the armed forces.

Nick Peros

The Isumataq project was recognized by the Canadian government in March 1993 as a work important for Canada and Canadian culture – a special ceremony was held in the Canadian Parliament, House of Commons to pay homage to Isumataq and was attended by Canadian Prime Minister Brian Mulroney, the Speaker of the House, the Party leaders and the Members of Parliament.

Number of Westminster MPs

In the 16th century there were around 310 Members of Parliament, including representation at various points from Calais and Wales.

Parliament of Sierra Leone

Each one of the 112 directly elected members of Parliament represents a constituency, across the country's fourteen administrative Districts.

Perth state by-election, 1892

Molloy was supported by the Trades and Labor Council, as well as several Opposition members of Parliament including Alfred Canning and William Loton.

He was supported by some Ministerial members of Parliament and by Timothy Quinlan, the member for West Perth who had recently joined the Opposition grouping.

Politics of Karnataka

Karnataka consists of 28 parliamentary constituencies from which 28 members of parliament get elected to the Lok Sabha.

Politics of Vanuatu

The constitution created a republican political system headed by a president who has primarily ceremonial powers and is elected by a two-thirds majority in an electoral college consisting of members of Parliament and the presidents of Regional Councils.

R v Chaytor

The case concerned the trials of three former Members of Parliament for false accounting in relation to the Parliamentary expenses scandal of 2009.

Sansad Ratna Award

Delhi based NGO PRS Legislative Research closely monitors the performance of all the Members of Parliament and releases the data of their individual performances in the areas of: participation of debates, raising questions, introduction of Private Members Bills and attendance at the end of every session.

Thomas MacNutt

The Unionist Party was formed in 1917 by Members of Parliament who supported the "Union government" formed by Sir Robert Borden during World War I.

Tomasi Puapua

Following the general election that was held on 25 November 1993 the members of parliament were evenly split in their support of the incumbent Prime Minister Bikenibeu Paeniu and Tomasi Puapua.

Tongan general election, 2014

Considering that the reforms introduced in 2010 were merely to be viewed as a first step in the process of democratisation, the DPFI introduced a bill in October 2013 (via ʻAisake Eke, MP for Tongatapu 5) which would have empowered the people to elect the Prime Minister directly from among the twenty-six elected members of Parliament, instead of the King appointing a Prime Minister from among those members on the advice of Parliament.