Yarm,also referred to as Yarm-on-Tees,is a market town and civil parish in the Borough of Stockton-on-Tees,North Yorkshire,England. It is in Teesdale with a town centre on a small meander of the River Tees. To the south-east,it extends to the River Leven,to the south it extends into the Kirklevington.
Thornaby-on-Tees,commonly referred to as Thornaby,is a town and civil parish on the River Tees's southern bank. It is in the Borough of Stockton-on-Tees,North Yorkshire,England. The parish had a population of 24,741 at the 2011 census,in the Teesside built-up area.
John Charles Baron is a British politician who has served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Basildon and Billericay,previously Billericay,since 2001. A member of the Conservative Party,he has rebelled against his party relatively frequently,specifically in his calling for a referendum on the European Union (EU) before the 2015 election and in opposing military intervention in Iraq,Libya and Syria.
Sir Bernard Christison Jenkin is a British Conservative Party politician serving as Member of Parliament (MP) for Harwich and North Essex since 2010. He also serves as chair of the Liaison Committee. He was first elected to represent Colchester North in 1992,and went on to represent North Essex before the Harwich and North Essex constituency was created.
The Borough of Stockton-on-Tees is a unitary authority with borough status in the counties of County Durham and North Yorkshire,England. The borough had a population of 196,600 in 2021.
Eaglescliffe is a village in the Borough of Stockton-on-Tees,County Durham,England. It is in the civil parish of Egglescliffe.
The Tees Valley is a combined authority area in Northern England,around the lower River Tees. The area is not a geographical valley;the local term for the valley is Teesdale. The combined authority covers five council areas:Darlington,Hartlepool,Middlesbrough,Redcar and Cleveland and Stockton-on-Tees.
Aislaby is a small village and civil parish on the north bank of the River Tees within the borough of Stockton-on-Tees and the ceremonial county of County Durham,England. It is located to the west of Eaglescliffe and Yarm. The name,first attested as Asulue(s)bi in 1086,is of Viking origin and means "Aslak's farm." Aislaby was listed in the Domesday Book of 1086.
Stockton South is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since December 2019 by Matt Vickers,a Conservative MP.
Middlesbrough is a parliamentary constituency in the United Kingdom,recreated in 1974,and represented since 2012 in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament by Andy McDonald from the Labour Party. An earlier version of the seat existed between 1868 and 1918.
Ian William Wrigglesworth,Baron Wrigglesworth is a Liberal Democrat peer. He served as President of the Liberal Democrats from 1989 to 1990.
Stockton-on-Tees is a former borough constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It elected one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post system of election from 1868 to 1983.
Yarm School is a co-educational independent day school in Yarm,North Yorkshire in the North East of England. The school accepts pupils aged 3–18 years old and has a Nursery Pre-Prep,Preparatory School,Senior School and Sixth Form. The school was founded in 1978 and is a member of the Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference.
Alexander Cunningham is a British politician who has served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Stockton North since 2010. A member of the Labour Party,he has been Shadow Minister for Courts and Sentencing since 2020.
The People's Pledge was a political campaign to secure a referendum on the United Kingdom's membership of the European Union. It aimed to achieve this by asking voters to sign a pledge that they would use their vote to help secure a majority of Members of Parliament (MPs) in support of an in-out referendum on EU membership. The 1975 European Communities membership referendum was the last time such a vote had occurred in Britain.
Ranil Malcolm Jayawardena is a British politician who has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for North East Hampshire since 2015. A member of the Conservative Party,he served under Prime Minister Liz Truss as Secretary of State for Environment,Food and Rural Affairs from September to October 2022. He previously served as Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for International Trade from 2020 to 2022.
The European Union (Referendum) Bill 2013–14 was a private member's bill of the Parliament of the United Kingdom designed to make provision for a referendum on membership of the European Union to be held in 2017 following renegotiation of terms between the European Union and the United Kingdom government. The bill ceased to be considered by Parliament after January 2014 and did not become law. However,a subsequent bill with the same objective,the European Union Referendum Act 2015,was later introduced to the House of Commons by the newly elected Conservative government in May 2015 was passed and received royal assent on 17 December 2015.
Ben Houchen,Baron Houchen of High Leven,is a British Conservative Party politician who was elected as Tees Valley Mayor in May 2017 after winning the 2017 mayoral election,defeating Labour candidate Sue Jeffrey by 2.2 per cent in the second round. He was re-elected in 2021,defeating the Labour candidate,Jessie Joe Jacobs.
Paul Daniel Williams is a British general practitioner (GP) and former Labour Party politician,who served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Stockton South from 2017 to 2019,when he lost his seat to the Conservative candidate Matt Vickers in the 2019 general election. In May 2021,Williams stood as the Labour Party candidate in the 2021 Hartlepool by-election but lost to the Conservative candidate Jill Mortimer.
Matthew Alexander Vickers is a British politician serving as the member of Parliament (MP) for Stockton South since 2019,and Deputy Chairman of the Conservative Party since July 2022.
