The London Borough of Hounslow is a London borough in west London,England,forming part of Outer London. It was created in 1965 when three smaller borough councils amalgamated under the London Government Act 1963. It is governed by Hounslow London Borough Council.
Sir Thomas Anthony Cunningham is a British politician who served as member of parliament (MP) for Workington from 2001 to 2015. A member of the Labour Party,he was Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for Cumbria and Lancashire North from 1994 to 1999.
Spelthorne is a local government district with borough status in Surrey,England. Its council is based in Staines-upon-Thames;other settlements in the area include Ashford,Sunbury-on-Thames,Shepperton,Stanwell and Laleham. It is named after the medieval Spelthorne Hundred which had covered the area.
Claude Ajit Moraes is a British Labour Party politician and campaigner,who was a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for London between 1999 and the United Kingdom's withdrawal from the EU on 31 January 2020. He was Chair of the Civil Liberties,Justice and Home Affairs Committee,Deputy Leader of the European Parliamentary Labour Party and Vice-President of the Socialists and Democrats Group in the European Parliament.
William Francis Newton Dunn is a British politician who served as a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) from 1979 to 1994,1999 to 2014 and again from 2019 until the UK's withdrawal from the EU in 2020. He resigned from the Conservative Party in 2000 in protest of its euroscepticism and joined the Liberal Democrats.
Ashford is a town in Spelthorne,in Surrey,England,14 mi (23 km) west of central London. Its name derives from a crossing point of the River Ash,a distributary of the River Colne. Historically part of Middlesex,the town has been part of Surrey since 1965. Ashford consists of relatively low density low- and medium-rise buildings,none of them being high rise. If excluding apartments most houses are semi-detached. In 2011 it had a population of 27,382.
Stanwell is a village in the Spelthorne district,in Surrey,England. It is 16 miles (26 km) west of central London. A small corner of its land is used as industrial land for nearby Heathrow Airport. The rest of the village is made up of residential and recreational land. Historically part of the county of Middlesex,it has,like the rest of Spelthorne,been in Surrey since 1965. The village is to the south of the cargo-handling area of Heathrow Airport and to the east of the Staines Reservoirs. Stanwell is the northernmost settlement in Surrey,bordering Berkshire and Greater London.
Spelthorne is a constituency in Surrey represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2010 by Kwasi Kwarteng,a Conservative,who served as Chancellor of the Exchequer for 38 days in September and October 2022.
Uxbridge was a seat returning one Member of Parliament (MP) of the House of Commons of the UK Parliament from 1885 to 2010. Its MPs elected were:Conservative Party candidates for 107 years and Labour Party candidates for 18 years. The closing 40 years of the seat's history saw Conservative victory —in 1997 on a very marginal majority in relative terms.
South East England was a constituency of the European Parliament. It elected 10 Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) using the D'Hondt method of party-list proportional representation until the UK exit from the European Union on 31 January 2020.
Staines Rural District was a rural district of Middlesex in England from 1894 to 1930.
John Edward Tomlinson,Baron Tomlinson was a British Labour Co-operative politician. He served as a life peer in the House of Lords from 1998 until his death,and had previously been a Member of Parliament from 1974 to 1979,and a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) from 1984 to 1999.
The 2009 European Parliament election was the United Kingdom's component of the 2009 European Parliament election,the voting for which was held on Thursday 4 June 2009. The election was held concurrently with the 2009 local elections in England. In total,72 Members of the European Parliament were elected from the United Kingdom using proportional representation.
Stanwell Moor is a village and moor in the Borough of Spelthorne,approximately 17 miles (27 km) west of central London. Historically part of the county of Middlesex,it was transferred to Surrey in 1965. West of its generally narrow moor is the M25 London Orbital Motorway and the village is 1 mile (1.6 km) southwest of Heathrow Airport Terminal 5.
Spelthorne was a hundred of the historic county of Middlesex,England. It contained these parishes and settlements:
Spelthorne Borough Council in Surrey,England is elected every four years. Since the last boundary changes in 2003,39 councillors are elected from 13 wards.
Middlesex County Council under the Local Government Act 1888 had to be returned by local elections every three years. Its first election was in January 1889,the year the council first met. The last was in 1961 as the 1964 elections instead were –as to 83 of 87 divisions –for the larger,in-waiting Greater London Council –4 divisions went into other counties,on abolition. Three intra-war elections were never announced and formally cancelled but otherwise expected in 1916,1940 and 1943.
Seb Dance,born 1 December 1981,is a British Labour Party politician who served as a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for the London region from 2014 to 2020 and since January 2022 serves as Deputy Mayor of London for transport.
Wajid Iltaf Khan,Baron Khan of Burnley,is a British Labour Party politician who served as a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for North West England from 2017 to 2019 and as Mayor of Burnley from 2020 to 2021.
Reform UK is a right-wing populist political party in the United Kingdom. It was founded by Catherine Blaiklock with support from Nigel Farage in November 2018 as the Brexit Party,advocating hard Euroscepticism and a no-deal Brexit. It was a significant political force at the 2019 European Parliament election,but failed to win any seats at the 2019 general election. After the UK's withdrawal from the European Union (EU) on 31 January 2020,it was renamed to Reform UK,and it became primarily an anti-lockdown party during the COVID-19 pandemic. Since 2022,the party has campaigned on a broader platform,chiefly surrounding illegal migration and the government’s Net Zero energy policy.
