The Speaker of the House of Commons is the presiding officer of the House of Commons,the lower house and primary chamber of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. The current speaker,Sir Lindsay Hoyle,was elected Speaker on 4 November 2019,following the retirement of John Bercow. Hoyle began his first full parliamentary term in the role on 17 December 2019,having been unanimously re-elected after the 2019 general election.
Sir John Dominic Battle,is a British politician who served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Leeds West from 1987 to 2010. A member of the Labour Party,he served in government as Minister of State for Trade and Industry (1997–1999) and Minister of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs (1999–2001) under Tony Blair.
Timothy Eric Boswell,Baron Boswell of Aynho is a British politician who was the Conservative MP for Daventry from 1987 until he stood down at the 2010 general election,after which he was appointed to the House of Lords as a life peer.
Dame Rosalie Winterton,is a British Labour Party politician who has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Doncaster Central since 1997. In June 2017,Winterton became one of three Deputy Speakers in the House of Commons.
Anthony Perrinott Lysberg Barber,Baron Barber,was a British Conservative politician who served as Chancellor of the Exchequer from 1970 to 1974.
Bruce Bernard Weatherill,Baron Weatherill,was a British Conservative Party politician. He served as Speaker of the House of Commons between 1983 and 1992.
Henry Paul Guinness Channon,Baron Kelvedon,was Conservative MP for Southend West for 38 years,from 1959 until 1997. He served in various ministerial offices,and was a Cabinet minister for 3½years,as President of the Board of Trade and Secretary of State for Trade and Industry from January 1986 to June 1987,and then as Secretary of State for Transport to July 1989.
Eric Graham Varley,Baron Varley,was a British Labour Party politician and cabinet minister on the right-wing of the party. He was the Member of Parliament for Chesterfield from 1964 to 1984.
Doncaster Central is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 1997 by Dame Rosie Winterton of the Labour Party. Since 2017,Winterton has served as one of three Deputy Speakers of the House;she is the second MP for the constituency to be a Deputy Speaker,after Harold Walker.
Stanley Orme,Baron Orme,PC was a British left-wing Labour Party politician. He was a Member of Parliament (MP) from 1964 to 1997,and served as a cabinet minister in the 1970s.
Charles Richard Morris was a British politician who served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Manchester Openshaw from 1963 to 1983. A member of the Labour Party,he served as a Minister of State from 1974 to 1979 and a Government Whip from 1966 to 1970.
Harry Ewing,Baron Ewing of Kirkford,was a Labour politician in Scotland. He served as a Member of Parliament (MP) for 21 years,from a by-election in 1971 until the 1992 general election,when he became a life peer. He served as a junior minister in the Scottish Office from 1974 to 1979,responsible for devolution,and later chaired the Scottish Constitutional Convention from 1989 to 1996.
John Donkin Dormand,Baron Dormand of Easington was a British educationist and Labour Party politician from the coal mining area of Easington in County Durham,in the north-east of England. He was Member of Parliament (MP) for the Easington constituency from 1970 until his retirement in 1987.
Stanley Clinton Clinton-Davis,Baron Clinton-Davis,was a British politician and solicitor. A member of the Labour Party,he served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Hackney Central from 1970 to 1983,and was a minister in the Labour governments of Harold Wilson,James Callaghan and Tony Blair. He was European Commissioner in the Delors Commission (1985–1989). In 1990,he became a life peer,sitting on the Labour benches in the House of Lords until his retirement in 2018.
Arthur Paul Dean,Baron Dean of Harptree,PC was a British politician who held a seat in the House of Commons from 1964 until 1992. He was a member of the Conservative Party.
The 1997 Prime Minister's Resignation Honours were officially announced in two supplements to The London Gazette of 1 August 1997 and marked the May 1997 resignation of the Prime Minister,John Major.
A vote of no confidence in the British Labour government,1974–1979,of James Callaghan occurred on 28 March 1979. The vote was brought by the Official Opposition leader Margaret Thatcher and was lost by the Labour government by one vote,which was announced at 10:19 pm. The result mandated a general election that was won by Thatcher's Conservative Party. The last time an election had been forced by the UK House of Commons was in 1924,when Ramsay MacDonald,the first Labour prime minister,lost a vote of confidence. Labour politician Roy Hattersley later remarked that the vote marked "the last rites" of Old Labour. Labour did not return to government for another 18 years,with New Labour ideology. The BBC has referred to the vote as "one of the most dramatic nights in Westminster history".
The 1992 Dissolution Honours List was gazetted on 5 June 1992 following the advice of the Prime Minister,John Major.
The 2001 Dissolution Honours List was gazetted on 2 June 2001 prior to the General Election of the same year by the Prime Minister,Tony Blair.
The 2005 Dissolution Honours List was issued after the General Election of the same year on the advice of the Prime Minister,Tony Blair.
