The Pro-Euro Conservative Party was a British political party announced by John Stevens and Brendan Donnelly in February 1999,formed to contest the 1999 European Parliament election. The founders were Members of the European Parliament who had resigned from the UK Conservative Party in protest at its anti-euro stance. Their reported aim was to replace Eurosceptic William Hague as Conservative leader with Europhile Kenneth Clarke. Stevens later said that they had intended to push Ken Clarke,Michael Heseltine,Chris Patten and other pro-Europeans in the Conservative Party into "an SDP-style breakaway,in combination with the Liberal Democrats". The Pro-Euro Conservative Party disbanded in 2001.
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.
John Simon Bercow is a British former politician who was Speaker of the House of Commons from 2009 to 2019,and Member of Parliament (MP) for Buckingham between 1997 and 2019. A member of the Conservative Party prior to becoming Speaker,he was the first MP since Selwyn Lloyd in 1971 to be elected Speaker without having been a Deputy Speaker. After resigning as Speaker in 2019 and opting not to seek re-election as MP for Buckingham in the 2019 general election,Bercow left Parliament. In 2021,he joined the Labour Party but was suspended in 2022.
Sir Graham Stuart Brady is a British politician who has served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Altrincham and Sale West since 1997. A member of the Conservative Party,he has been Chairman of the 1922 Committee since 2010,except for a brief period in 2019. During his tenure as 1922 Committee chairman,he has overseen the election of three Party leaders and Prime Ministers as well as votes of no confidence into prime ministers Theresa May and Boris Johnson.
Nigel Paul Farage is a British broadcaster and former politician who was Leader of the UK Independence Party (UKIP) from 2006 to 2009 and 2010 to 2016 and Leader of the Brexit Party from 2019 to 2021. He was Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for South East England from 1999 until the United Kingdom's exit from the EU in 2020. He was the host of The Nigel Farage Show,a radio phone-in on the Global-owned talk radio station LBC,from 2017 to 2020. Farage is currently the Honorary President of Reform UK and a presenter for GB News.
Dame Eleanor Fulton Laing,is a British politician who has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for the Epping Forest constituency since 1997. Laing is a member of the Conservative Party and has served as a Deputy Speaker of the House of Commons since 2013,and as Chairman of Ways and Means since 2020.
James Frederick Nicholson is a Northern Irish Ulster Unionist Party (UUP) politician,who served as a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for Northern Ireland from 1989 to 2019.
The 1999 European Parliament election was the United Kingdom's part of the European Parliament election 1999. It was held on 10 June 1999. Following the European Parliamentary Elections Act 1999,it was the first European election to be held in the United Kingdom where the whole country used a system of proportional representation. In total,87 Members of the European Parliament were elected from the United Kingdom across twelve new regional constituencies.
Michael John Martin,Baron Martin of Springburn,was a British politician who served as Speaker of the House of Commons between 2000 and 2009. A member of the Labour Party,he was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Glasgow Springburn from 1979 to 2005 and for Glasgow North East until 2009. He was elected as Speaker of the House of Commons in 2000,remaining in the office for nine years until his involuntary resignation in 2009.
Buckingham is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2019 by Greg Smith,a Conservative.
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.
Anne Frances Milton is a British politician who served as Minister of State for Skills and Apprenticeships from 2017 to 2019. She was Member of Parliament (MP) for Guildford from 2005 to 2019. Elected as a Conservative,she had the whip removed in September 2019 and subsequently sat as an independent politician.
Sir James Philip Duddridge,is a British politician and former banker serving as Minister of State for International Trade. He has served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Rochford and Southend East since 2005. He is a member of the Conservative Party.
John Edward Tomlinson,Baron Tomlinson,is a British Labour Co-operative politician. He is currently a life peer in the House of Lords,and was previously a Member of Parliament from 1974 to 1979,and a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) from 1984 to 1999.
Sir Nicholas Cosmo Bonsor,4th Baronet,DL is a British Conservative politician.
Nicole Sinclaire is a British politician and former leader of the We Demand a Referendum Party who served as a Member of the European Parliament for the West Midlands from 2009 to 2014.
This is a summary of the electoral history of David Cameron,who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 2010 to 2016 and Leader of the Conservative Party from 2005 to 2016. He was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Witney from 2001 to 2016.
Nigel Farage was a British MEP who stood as a candidate representing eurosceptic parties UK Independence Party (UKIP) and The Brexit Party since 1994. He was a Member of the European Parliament representing South East England since the 1999 election,winning re-election four times. Farage has stood for election to the House of Commons seven times,in five general elections and two by-elections,but has not won any of those elections. He was also a proponent of the UK leaving the European Union in the 2016 referendum,in which the electorate voted to do so by 52% to 48%.
The election for the 158th Speaker of the House of Commons took place on 4 November 2019. Sir Lindsay Hoyle was elected with 325 votes in the final ballot,out of a total of 540 votes cast.
Greg David Smith is a British Conservative politician. Previously deputy leader of Hammersmith and Fulham Council,he has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for the Buckingham constituency since the 2019 general election.
