The Downing Street chief of staff is the most senior political appointee in the Office of the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom,acting as a senior aide to the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. The holder of the office retains a highly powerful,non-ministerial position within His Majesty's Government.
The Prime Minister's Resignation Honours in the United Kingdom are honours granted at the behest of an outgoing prime minister following their resignation. In such a list,a prime minister may ask the monarch to bestow peerages,or lesser honours,on any number of people of their choosing. In 1997,an additional 47 working peers were created at the behest of the three main parties.
Sir Thomas Whinfield Scholar is a British civil servant who served as Permanent Secretary to the Treasury from 2016 to 2022. He was previously the prime minister's adviser on European and global issues in the Cabinet Office from 2013 to 2016. He has been a director of the nationalised bank Northern Rock,and served as chief of staff for Gordon Brown.
The representation of women in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom has been an issue in the politics of the United Kingdom at numerous points in the 20th and 21st centuries. Originally debate centred on whether women should be allowed to vote and stand for election as Members of Parliament. The Parliament Act 1918 gave women over 21 the right to stand for election as a Member of Parliament. The United Kingdom has had three female Prime Ministers:Margaret Thatcher (1979–1990),Theresa May (2016–2019),and Liz Truss (2022). The publication of the book Women in the House by Elizabeth Vallance in 1979 highlighted the under-representation of women in Parliament. In more modern times concerns about the under-representation of women led the Labour Party to introduce and,decades later,abandon all-women short lists,something which was later held to breach discrimination laws.
Dame Thérèse Anne Coffey is a British former politician who served as Deputy Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from September to October 2022 under Liz Truss. She has also served as Environment Secretary,Health Secretary and Work and Pensions Secretary. A member of the Conservative Party,Coffey was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Suffolk Coastal from 2010 to 2024.
Mary Elizabeth Truss is a British politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and Leader of the Conservative Party from September to October 2022. On her fiftieth day in office,she stepped down amid a government crisis,making her the shortest-serving prime minister in British history. The member of Parliament (MP) for South West Norfolk from 2010 to 2024,Truss held various Cabinet positions under three prime ministers—David Cameron,Theresa May and Boris Johnson—lastly as foreign secretary from 2021 to 2022.
Ruth Elizabeth Hunt,Baroness Hunt of Bethnal Green is a Welsh administrator who was Chief Executive of UK-based lesbian,gay,bisexual and trans equality charity Stonewall,the largest LGBTQ equality body in Europe,from 2014 until her resignation in 2019.
Susan Frances Maria Williams,Baroness Williams of Trafford is a Conservative life peer who served as the Chief Whip of the House of Lords and Captain of the Honourable Corps of Gentlemen-at-Arms between 2022 and 2024. In March 2022 she was made a member of the Privy Council. She has been Opposition Chief Whip in the House of Lords since July 2024.
Simone Jari Finn,Baroness Finn,is a British-American businesswoman and Conservative politician who served as Downing Street Deputy Chief of Staff from February 2021 until the end of the second Johnson Ministry.
The 2019 Prime Minister's Resignation Honours are honours awarded following the July 2019 resignation of the Prime Minister,Theresa May. The life peerages and other honours were issued as two separate lists by the Cabinet Office on 10 September 2019,while the honours were gazetted as one list on 28 October 2019.
Joanna Carolyn Penn,Baroness Penn,known as JoJo Penn,is a British political advisor. She was a baroness-in-waiting from March 2020 to September 2022. From November 2023 to March 2024,she was Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Housing and Communities in the Department for Levelling Up,Housing and Communities.
Mohammad Saqib Bhatti is a British Conservative Party politician who has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Meriden and Solihull East,formerly Meriden,since the 2019 general election. He previously served as Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Tech and the Digital Economy from 2023 to 2024 and as the Vice Chairman of the Conservative Party for Business from 2022 to 2023.
Suzanne Webb is a British Conservative Party politician who served as the Parliamentary Private Secretary to Prime Minister Liz Truss from September to October 2022. She was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Stourbridge from 2019 to 2024.
A list of events relating to politics and government in the United Kingdom during 2022.
David Bruno John Canzini is a political advisor who worked for the former British prime minister,Liz Truss. He formerly worked in the office of Prime Minister Boris Johnson,assisting the Downing Street chief of staff,Steve Barclay,as his deputy.
The 2022 Prime Minister's Resignation Honours are honours awarded following the September 2022 resignation of the Prime Minister,Boris Johnson.
Mark Stephen Fullbrook is a British political strategist and lobbyist who was Downing Street Chief of Staff from September to October 2022.
Liam David Scott Booth-Smith,Baron Booth-Smith,is a British political adviser who served as Downing Street Chief of Staff under Prime Minister Rishi Sunak from October 2022 to July 2024. He previously served as Sunak's de facto chief of staff as head of the Joint Economic Unit during his chancellorship.
The 2022 Prime Minister's Resignation Honours were honours awarded following the resignation of Liz Truss as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom in October 2022. Her resignation honours list was released on 29 December 2023,alongside the 2024 New Year Honours. Opposition politicians criticised the list in light of Truss's brief tenure as prime minister,and had called on her successor Rishi Sunak to block its release. Truss said that she was "delighted these champions for the conservative causes of freedom,limited government and a proud and sovereign Britain have been suitably honoured". The list was gazetted on 7 February 2024.
Charlotte Kathryn Tranter Owen,Baroness Owen of Alderley Edge is a British life peer and former special adviser. She has been a Conservative member of the House of Lords since 2023,and was the youngest recipient of a life peerage at the time of her appointment.
