The London Borough of Hillingdon is the largest and westernmost borough in West London,England. It was formed in 1965 from the districts of Hayes and Harlington,Ruislip-Northwood,Uxbridge,and Yiewsley and West Drayton in the ceremonial county of Middlesex. Today,Hillingdon is home to Heathrow Airport and Brunel University,and is the second largest of the 32 London boroughs by area.
Steven John Norris is a British Conservative Party politician and businessman. Norris served as Member of Parliament for Oxford East from 1983 to 1987. After narrowly losing that marginal seat in 1987 he re-entered the House of Commons at a by-election for Epping Forest in 1988,which he held until stepping down to focus on his business career in 1997. He was subsequently chosen by Conservative Party members to be the Conservative candidate for Mayor of London in 2000 and 2004 in which he secured 42% and 45% respectively,coming second to Ken Livingstone but ahead of the Conservative Party's vote share for the Greater London Assembly.
Alexander John Randall,Baron Randall of Uxbridge,is a British politician who served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Uxbridge from 1997 to 2010 and for Uxbridge and South Ruislip until 2015,before being awarded a life peerage in 2018. A member of the Conservative Party,he served as Government Deputy Chief Whip from May 2010 and October 2013,as well as Environment Adviser to Theresa May from 2017 to 2019.
Sir Robert James MacGillivray Neill KC (Hons) is a British barrister and Conservative Party politician. He has served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Bromley and Chislehurst since a by-election on 29 June 2006,following the death of the previous incumbent Eric Forth. He served as a Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Department of Communities and Local Government from 14 May 2010 to 4 September 2012. He is the current Chair of Parliament's Justice Select Committee.
An election to the Assembly of London took place on 10 June 2004,along with the 2004 London mayoral election.
A Deputy Mayor is a member of the London Mayoral cabinet,in the executive arm of the Greater London Authority. They serve as political advisors with responsibilities and powers corresponding to portfolios delegated by the Mayor. One of them must be designated as the Statutory Deputy Mayor,a member of the London Assembly who serves as the temporary Mayor during a vacancy or temporary incapacity of the Mayor.
Uxbridge and South Ruislip is a constituency in Greater London represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since its 2010 creation. The seat has been held by Steve Tuckwell of the Conservative Party with a majority of 495 since a by-election on 20 July 2023. The seat's previous holder,former Prime Minister (2019–2022) Boris Johnson,also of the Conservative Party,had formally resigned after receiving a copy of the Standard Committee's report into Partygate,which recommended a recall petition.
The 2008 London mayoral election for the office of Mayor of London,England,was held on 1 May 2008. Conservative candidate Boris Johnson defeated incumbent Labour Mayor Ken Livingstone. It was the third London mayoral election,the previous elections being the first election in May 2000 and the second election in June 2004.
The 2012 London mayoral election was an election held on Thursday 3 May 2012,to elect the Mayor of London. It was held on the same day as the London Assembly election,and used a supplementary vote system.
Andrew Boff is a British politician who has been Chair of the London Assembly since 2023,and previously from 2021 to 2022. A member of the Conservative Party,he has served as a London-wide Assembly Member (AM) since the 2008 election. Boff served as Leader of the Conservatives in the London Assembly from June 2012 to October 2015.
The 2008 Henley by-election to elect a member of the House of Commons for the constituency of Henley in Oxfordshire was held on 26 June 2008. It followed the election of Boris Johnson as Mayor of London in May 2008. In order to resign from being an MP,Johnson accepted the post of Steward and Bailiff of the Manor of Northstead on 4 June 2008.
Onkar Sahota is a British Labour Party politician who served as Chair of the London Assembly from 2022 to 2023. He has been Deputy Chair of the London Assembly since 2023 and member of the London Assembly for Ealing and Hillingdon since 2012,when he became the first Labour candidate to be elected in the constituency. He has since been re-elected twice for the seat.
The 2016 London mayoral election was held on 5 May 2016 to elect the Mayor of London,on the same day as the London Assembly election. It was the fifth election to the position of mayor,which was created in 2000 following a referendum in Greater London. The election used a supplementary vote system.
Victoria Lorne Peta Borwick,formally styled by marriagethe Lady Borwick,is a British politician.
On 9 October 2014,a by-election was held for the UK parliamentary constituency of Clacton in Essex,England. The by-election was triggered by the Conservative MP for Clacton,Douglas Carswell,defecting to the UK Independence Party (UKIP) and subsequently resigning his seat to seek re-election as its candidate.
Joyce Rebekah "Joy" Morrissey is an American-born British politician who has served as the Conservative Member of Parliament (MP) for Beaconsfield in Buckinghamshire since 2019. Morrissey has been a Lord Commissioner of the Treasury since November 2023.
Reform UK is a right-wing populist political party in the United Kingdom. It was founded with support from Nigel Farage in 2018 as the Brexit Party,advocating hard Euroscepticism and a no-deal Brexit. It gained 29 seats and the largest share of the national vote in the 2019 European Parliament election,but failed to win any seats in the December 2019 General Election. After Brexit,it was renamed Reform UK in 2021 and became an anti-lockdown party during the COVID-19 pandemic. In 2022,it began campaigning on broader right-wing populist themes during the cost-of-living crisis.
The 2022 Hillingdon London Borough Council election took place on 5 May 2022. All 53 members of Hillingdon London Borough Council were elected. The elections took place alongside local elections in the other London boroughs and elections to local authorities across the United Kingdom.
A by-election for the United Kingdom parliamentary constituency of Uxbridge and South Ruislip was held on 20 July 2023,following the resignation of former Prime Minister Boris Johnson as its member of Parliament (MP) on 12 June.
