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[1] [2] In addition, six prime ministers were unable to enact important policy and therefore resigned, two prime ministers were unable to obtain supply from the House of Representatives, one prime minister was unable to obtain supply in the Senate and was dismissed by the Governor General, one prime minister never had the confidence of the ...
This is a list of successful votes of no confidence in British governments led by prime ministers of the former Kingdom of Great Britain and the current United Kingdom. The first motion of no confidence to defeat a ministry was in 1742 against the Whig government of Robert Walpole, who is generally regarded as the de facto first prime minister.
Boris Johnson's government from July 2019 until the general election in December was defeated on 12 divisions in the House of Commons. It lost its working majority on its first sitting day of Parliament and was defeated on its very first division. Johnson became the first Prime Minister this happened to since Lord Rosebery in 1894. [123]
Prime Minister's Special Envoy for Freedom of Religion or Belief [34] 2010: 1983: Sarah Russell: Labour: Kensington and Bayswater [n 6] Felicity Buchan [35] [36] Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Housing and Homelessness: 2019: 2019 Joe Powell: Labour: Swindon South: Robert Buckland [37] [38] Chair of the Northern Ireland Affairs ...
The Prime Minister said he took “full responsibility” for the scandal. – June 6. ... Labour’s motion is defeated by 230 votes to 326, majority 96, but there is speculation that Chief Whip ...
Prime Minister: Dirk Jan de Geer Netherlands: Prime Minister Nazi Germany: 15 May 1940 Occupation of the Netherlands: Prime Minister Jan de Geer and Queen Wilhelmina lead the Dutch government in exile in London and would be restored at the end of the war. [37] [38] Wilhelmina: Queen: Hubert Pierlot Belgium: Prime Minister Nazi Germany: 24 May 1940
United Kingdom general elections (elections for the House of Commons) have occurred in the United Kingdom since the first in 1802.The members of the 1801–1802 Parliament had been elected to the former Parliament of Great Britain and Parliament of Ireland, before being co-opted to serve in the first Parliament of the United Kingdom, so that Parliament is not included in the table below.
List of prime ministers defeated by votes of no confidence; B. 2017 British Columbian government formation; C. 2008–2009 Canadian parliamentary dispute; M. Matter ...