Ranil Wickremesinghe is a Sri Lankan politician who is the 8th and current president of Sri Lanka. He also holds several ministerial positions,including the Minister of Finance,Minister of Defence,Minister of Technology and Minister of Women,Child Affairs and Social Empowerment.
Withington is a suburb of Manchester,Greater Manchester,England. Historically part of Lancashire,it lies 4 miles (6.4 km) from Manchester city centre,about 0.4 miles (0.6 km) south of Fallowfield,0.5 miles (0.8 km) north-east of Didsbury and 1 mile (1.6 km) east of Chorlton-cum-Hardy. Withington has a population of just over 14,000 people,reducing at the 2011 census to 13,422.
Robert Edward Sheldon,Baron Sheldon PC was a British Labour Party politician and life peer who served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Ashton under Lyne from 1964 to 2001.
Mahinda Rajapaksa is a Sri Lankan politician. He served as the President of Sri Lanka from 2005 to 2015;the Prime Minister of Sri Lanka from 2004 to 2005,2018,and 2019 to 2022;the Leader of the Opposition from 2002 to 2004 and 2018 to 2019,and the Minister of Finance from 2005 to 2015 and 2019 to 2021. He has been a Member of Parliament (MP) for Kurunegala since 2015.
Manchester Withington is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2015 by Jeff Smith of Labour. Of the 30 seats with the highest percentage of winning majority in 2017,the seat ranks 25th with a 55.7% margin,and is the only one of the twenty nine of these seats won by the Labour Party in which the second-placed candidate was a Liberal Democrat,rather than Conservative. This is despite being a Conservative seat right up to 1987,then becoming relatively safely Labour,then Liberal Democrat from 2005 to 2015 before they lost on a large swing in 2015,after which Smith substantially increased his majority.
The Christie NHS Foundation Trust in Withington,Manchester,manages the Christie Hospital,one of the largest cancer treatment centres of its type in Europe. The Christie became an NHS Foundation Trust in 2007 and is also an international leader in cancer research and development,home to the Paterson Institute for Cancer Research.
Jeff Smith is a British Labour Party politician serving as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Manchester Withington since 2015,and the Shadow Minister for Sport,Tourism,Heritage and Music since 4 December 2021. A former Manchester City Councillor,he served as a senior opposition whip in Parliament from 2015 to 2021,and Shadow Minister for Local Government from May to 4 December 2021.
John Robert Louis Lee,Baron Lee of Trafford,DL is a British Liberal Democrat politician,who has sat as a life peer since 2006.
His Excellency Mahinda Buddhadasa Samarasinghe,is a former MP and the current Ambassador of Sri Lanka to the United States of America,Mexico and High Commissioner to Trinidad and Tobago. He was formerly a member of Parliament under Gotabaya Rajapaksa's Government,and the Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna chief organiser for the Panadura Electorate in the Kalutara District.
Abdul Rauff Hibbathul Hakeem is a Sri Lankan politician and current member of parliament,representing the Kandy electorate since 2010. Hakeem is the leader of the Sri Lanka Muslim Congress (SLMC),and a member of the United National Front for Good Governance.
Dullas Daham Kumara Alahapperuma is a Sri Lankan politician and founder and current leader of the Freedom People's Congress. Alahapperuma is also a former Cabinet Minister of Information and Mass Media and a current Member of Parliament from the Matara District.
Basil Rajapaksa is a Sri Lankan-American politician. He is a former Minister of Finance and Member of Parliament for the national list.
The 14th Parliament of Sri Lanka was a meeting of the Parliament of Sri Lanka,with the membership determined by the results of the 2010 parliamentary election held on 8 and 20 April 2010. The parliament met for the first time on 22 April 2010 and was dissolved on 26 June 2015.
Karen Anne Bradley is a British Conservative Party politician who served as Secretary of State for Northern Ireland from 2018 to 2019,and has served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Staffordshire Moorlands since 2010.
The 13th Parliament of Sri Lanka was a meeting of the Parliament of Sri Lanka,with the membership determined by the results of the 2004 parliamentary election held on 2 April 2004. The parliament met for the first time on 22 April 2004 and was dissolved on 9 February 2010.
Sundaram Perumal Rajadurai is a Sri Lankan attorney-at-law,politician and former Member of Parliament.
Ramaiah Yogarajan is a Sri Lankan engineer,politician and former Member of Parliament.
Mahamood Lebbe Alim Mohamed Hizbullah is a Sri Lankan politician and state minister. He was a minor presidential candidate in the 2019 presidential elections.
Abdul Rauff Abdul Hafeez is a Sri Lankan politician and former Member of Parliament.
The 16th Parliament of Sri Lanka is the current Parliament of Sri Lanka,with the membership determined by the results of the 2020 parliamentary election held on 5 August 2020. According to the Constitution of Sri Lanka the maximum legislative term of the parliament is 5 years from the first meeting.
