Jeremy John Durham Ashdown,Baron Ashdown of Norton-sub-Hamdon,,better known as Paddy Ashdown,was a British politician and diplomat who served as Leader of the Liberal Democrats from 1988 to 1999. Internationally,he is recognised for his role as High Representative for Bosnia and Herzegovina from 2002 to 2006,following his vigorous lobbying for military action against Yugoslavia in the 1990s.
David Philip Heathcoat-Amory is a British politician,accountant,and farmer. He was the Conservative Member of Parliament for Wells from 1983 until he lost the seat in the 2010 general election. He became a member of the British Privy Council in 1996. Heathcoat-Amory was previously Chair of the European Research Group.
Sir Edward Jonathan Davey is a British politician who has served as Leader of the Liberal Democrats since 2020,having acted in the position from 2019 to 2020. He served in the Cameron–Clegg coalition as Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change from 2012 to 2015 and as Deputy Leader to Jo Swinson in 2019. An "Orange Book" liberal,he has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Kingston and Surbiton since 2017,and served in the same role from 1997 to 2015.
Robert Andrew Stunell,Baron Stunell,is a Liberal Democrat politician in the United Kingdom.
Hugo George William Swire,Baron Swire,is a British politician. He served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for East Devon from 2001 until 2019. A member of the Conservative Party,he has had several ministerial roles,most recently as Minister of State for Europe and the Americas,a role he held until July 2016. Swire is currently the Deputy Chairman of the Commonwealth Enterprise and Investment Council. He retired from the House of Commons at the 2019 general election. Since 2022 he has been a member of the House of Lords.
In British politics,a Lib–Lab pact is a working arrangement between the Liberal Democrats and the Labour Party.
Christopher Murray Paul Huhne is a British energy and climate change consultant,and former journalist,business economist and politician who was the Liberal Democrat Member of Parliament for Eastleigh from 2005 to 2013 and the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change from 2010 to 2012. He is currently chair of the UK green gas association - the Anaerobic Digestion and Bioresources Association - and senior adviser to the World Biogas Association. He also advises companies on his particular interest in renewable technologies that can provide back up for intermittent energy sources like wind and solar.
Nicol Ross Stephen,Baron Stephen is a Scottish politician who served as Deputy First Minister of Scotland and Minister for Enterprise and Lifelong Learning from 2005 to 2007. A member of the Scottish Liberal Democrats,he was the Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) for Aberdeen South from 1999 to 2011,and was leader of the Scottish Liberal Democrats from 2005 to 2008.
Jeremy Richard Browne is a British Liberal Democrat politician who was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Taunton Deane from 2005 to 2015. He served as both Minister of State for Europe and the Americas and Minister of State for Crime Prevention.
Sir Daniel Grian Alexander is a former politician who was Chief Secretary to the Treasury between 2010 and 2015. He was the Member of Parliament (MP) for the Inverness,Nairn,Badenoch &Strathspey constituency from 2005 until the general election in May 2015. In his first parliamentary term (2005–2010),Alexander was the Liberal Democrat spokesperson for Work and Pensions (2007–2008),the Chief of Staff to party leader Nick Clegg,and Chair of the Liberal Democrat Manifesto Group (2007–2010).
The 2010 United Kingdom general election was held on Thursday 6 May 2010,with 45,597,461 registered voters entitled to vote to elect members to the House of Commons. The election took place in 650 constituencies across the United Kingdom under the first-past-the-post system.
David Gordon Mundell,is a Scottish politician and solicitor who served as Secretary of State for Scotland from 2015 to 2019. A member of the Scottish Conservative Party,he has served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Dumfriesshire,Clydesdale and Tweeddale since 2005. Mundell was the first openly gay Conservative cabinet minister,formally coming out in 2016.
David Michael Gauke is a British political commentator,solicitor and former politician who was the Member of Parliament (MP) for South West Hertfordshire from 2005 to 2019. He served in the Cabinet under Theresa May,most notably as Secretary of State for Justice and Lord Chancellor from 2018 to 2019. First elected as a Conservative,Gauke had the Conservative whip removed on 3 September 2019 and until the dissolution sat as an independent politician.
The Beveridge Group is a centre-left group within the Liberal Democrat party in the UK. It was set up in 2001 by MPs Alistair Carmichael,Paul Holmes,John Barrett and John Pugh to promote debate within the party regarding public service provision.
The Liberal Democrats are a liberal political party in the United Kingdom,founded in 1988. Since the 1992 general election,with the exception of the 2015 general election,they have been the third-largest UK political party by the number of votes cast. They have 15 members of Parliament in the House of Commons,84 members of the House of Lords,four Members of the Scottish Parliament and one member in the Welsh Senedd. The party has nearly 3,000 local council seats. The party holds a twice-per-year Liberal Democrat Conference,at which party policy is formulated. In contrast to its main opponents' conference rules,the Lib Dems grant all members attending its Conference the right to speak in debates and vote on party policy,under a one member,one vote system. The party also allows its members to vote online for its policies and in the election of a new leader. The party served as the junior party in a coalition government with the Conservative Party between 2010 and 2015;with Scottish Labour in the Scottish Executive from 1999 to 2007,and with Welsh Labour in the Welsh Government from 2000 to 2003 and from 2016 to 2021.
The Southport Resolution is a set of triple-lock directives of the Liberal Democrats,a political party in the United Kingdom,which state the conventions that the leader of the party should follow if they choose to enter into a national political coalition with another party.
David Cameron's tenure as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom began on 11 May 2010 when he accepted an invitation from Queen Elizabeth II to form a government,succeeding Gordon Brown of the Labour Party,and ended on 13 July 2016 upon his resignation following the 2016 referendum that favoured Brexit,which he had opposed. As prime minister,Cameron served simultaneously as First Lord of the Treasury and as Minister for the Civil Service.
The Cameron–Clegg coalition was formed by David Cameron and Nick Clegg when Cameron was invited by Queen Elizabeth II to form a government,following the resignation of Prime Minister Gordon Brown on 11 May 2010,after the general election on 6 May. It was the UK's first coalition government since the Churchill caretaker ministry in 1945.
The events surrounding the formation of the United Kingdom's government in 2010 took place between 7 May and 12 May 2010,following the 2010 general election,which failed to produce an overall majority for either of the country's two main political parties. The election,held on 6 May,resulted in the first hung parliament in the UK in 36 years,sparking a series of negotiations which would form the first coalition government since the Second World War.
William James Quince is a British politician and former lawyer who served as Minister of State for Health and Secondary Care from September 2022 to November 2023. A member of the Conservative Party,he was first elected at the 2015 general election as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Colchester,defeating the incumbent Liberal Democrat MP Sir Bob Russell. From 2011 to 2016,Quince was a borough councillor in Colchester. On 9 June 2023,Quince announced he would not run as an MP at the next general election.
