Nigel Martin Evans is a British politician serving as the Member of Parliament (MP) for the Ribble Valley constituency in Lancashire since 1992. A member of the Conservative Party,he was Joint Executive Secretary of the 1922 Committee from 2017 to 2019. He served as First Deputy Chairman of Ways and Means,one of the Speaker's three deputies,from 2010 to 2013. He was elected as Second Deputy Chairman of Ways and Means in 2020.
Sir Roger James Gale is a British politician who has served as the member of Parliament (MP) for North Thanet since 1983. He had a career in journalism and broadcasting from 1964,around the same time as he joined the Conservative Party,until 1983. He was knighted in 2012. He was a prominent and vocal critic of Boris Johnson during his leadership of the Conservative Party.
Dominic Charles Roberts Grieve is a British barrister and former politician who served as Shadow Home Secretary from 2008 to 2009 and Attorney General for England and Wales from 2010 to 2014. He served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Beaconsfield from 1997 to 2019 and was the Chair of the Intelligence and Security Committee from 2015 to 2019.
Sir Jeremy Paul Wright is a British lawyer and politician who served as Attorney General for England and Wales from 2014 to 2018 and as Secretary of State for Digital,Culture,Media and Sport from 2018 to 2019. A member of the Conservative Party,he has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Kenilworth and Southam,previously Rugby and Kenilworth,since the 2005 general election.
David Gordon Mundell,is a Scottish politician and solicitor who served as Secretary of State for Scotland from 2015 to 2019. A member of the Scottish Conservative Party,he has served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Dumfriesshire,Clydesdale and Tweeddale since 2005. Mundell was the first openly gay Conservative cabinet minister,formally coming out in 2016.
Caroline Elizabeth Johnson is a British Conservative Party politician and consultant paediatrician who served as Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Mental Health and Public Health from September to October 2022. She has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Sleaford and North Hykeham since the 2016 by-election.
Matthew James Offord is a British Conservative Party politician who has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Hendon since 2010. He was previously a member of the Association of European Parliamentarians with Africa Governing Council.
Simon Anthony Hart is a British politician serving as the Chief Whip of the House of Commons and Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasury since October 2022. He previously served as Secretary of State for Wales in the Johnson government from 2019 to 2022. A member of the Conservative Party,he has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Carmarthen West and South Pembrokeshire since 2010.
John Zak Woodcock,Baron Walney is a British politician and life peer who acts as the government’s independent adviser on political violence and disruption. He formerly served as a Labour and then independent Member of Parliament (MP) for Barrow and Furness from 2010 to 2019. He has sat as a crossbencher in the House of Lords since 2021,previously sitting as a non-affiliated peer.
Helen Olivia Bicknell Whately is a British politician serving as Minister of State for Social Care since October 2022,and previously from 2020 to 2021. She also served as Exchequer Secretary to the Treasury from 2021 to 2022. A member of the Conservative Party,she has been Member of Parliament (MP) for Faversham and Mid Kent since 2015.
The 2019 United Kingdom general election was held on Thursday 12 December 2019 to elect members of the House of Commons. The Conservative Party won a landslide victory with a majority of 80 seats,a net gain of 48,on 43.6% of the popular vote,the highest percentage for any party since the 1979 general election.
A by-election for the House of Commons constituency of Sleaford and North Hykeham in Lincolnshire,England,was held on 8 December 2016. It was triggered by the resignation of the Conservative member of parliament (MP) Stephen Phillips,who left Parliament on 4 November 2016 due to policy differences with the Conservative government led by the prime minister,Theresa May,over Brexit –the British withdrawal from the European Union (EU). The Conservatives nominated Caroline Johnson,a paediatrician,to replace Phillips;she won the by-election with more than 50 per cent of the vote,a sizable majority. The Conservatives' vote share fell slightly compared to the result at the previous general election in 2015.
Sir Simon Richard Clarke is a British politician who has been Member of Parliament (MP) for Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland since 2017. A member of the Conservative Party,he briefly served as Secretary of State for Levelling Up,Housing and Communities from September to October 2022 and Chief Secretary to the Treasury from 2021 to 2022.
A by-election was held in the UK Parliament constituency of Brecon and Radnorshire on 1 August 2019 after Chris Davies,who had held the seat for the Conservatives since the 2015 general election,was unseated by a recall petition. The by-election was won by Jane Dodds of the Liberal Democrats.
Boris Johnson's tenure as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom began on 24 July 2019 when he accepted an invitation from Queen Elizabeth II to form a government,succeeding Theresa May,and ended on 6 September 2022 upon his resignation. As prime minister,Johnson served simultaneously as First Lord of the Treasury and Minister for the Civil Service. He also served as Minister for the Union,a position created by him to be held by the prime minister. Johnson's premiership was dominated by Brexit,the COVID-19 pandemic,the Russian invasion of Ukraine,and the cost of living crisis. His tenure was also characterised by several political controversies and scandals,being viewed as the most scandalous premiership of modern times by historians and biographers.
On 3 September 2019,the British Conservative Party withdrew the whip from 21 of its MPs who had supported an emergency motion to allow the House of Commons to undertake proceedings on the European Union (Withdrawal) Bill on 4 September. In the hours after the vote,the Chief Whip Mark Spencer informed the rebel MPs that they were no longer entitled to sit as Conservatives. This led to the loss of the Conservative/DUP majority in the Commons.
Mark Peter Fletcher is a British politician serving as the member of Parliament (MP) for Bolsover since 2019. He is a member of the Conservative Party.
The second Johnson ministry began on 16 December 2019,three days after Boris Johnson's audience with Queen Elizabeth II where she invited him to form a new administration following the 2019 general election. The Conservative Party was returned to power with a majority of 80 seats in the House of Commons. Initially the ministers were largely identical to those at the end of the first Johnson ministry,but changed significantly in cabinet reshuffles in February 2020 and September 2021.
Mark Simon Eastwood is a British Conservative Party politician who was elected as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Dewsbury in the 2019 general election.
