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Before the election of the first federal leader of the party (the Liberal Democrats having a federal structure in their internal party organisation), the leaders of the two parties which merged to form the Liberal Democrats, the Liberal Party and the Social Democratic Party (SDP), served as joint interim leaders: David Steel and Bob Maclennan ...
Scottish Liberal Democrat leader Jim Wallace became deputy first minister of the new Scottish Executive, a position he held until his resignation as party leader in 2005. Wallace served briefly as acting first minister following the death in office of Donald Dewar in 2000 and the resignation of Henry McLeish in 2001.
Name In 2024 election Bath: Wera Hobhouse: Seat held Bicester and Woodstock: Calum Miller: Won new seat Brecon, Radnor and Cwm Tawe: David Chadwick: Defeated incumbent, Fay Jones: Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross: Jamie Stone: Seat held (Notional gain) Carshalton and Wallington: Bobby Dean: Defeated incumbent, Elliot Colburn: Cheadle: Tom ...
Leader Party Leader's seat Number of seats [1] Leader since Keir Starmer: Labour Party: Holborn and St Pancras: 402 4 April 2020: Kemi Badenoch: Conservative Party: North West Essex: 121 2 November 2024: Ed Davey: Liberal Democrats: Kingston and Surbiton: 72 27 August 2020: Stephen Flynn: Scottish National Party: Aberdeen South: 9 6 December ...
The 2020 Liberal Democrats leadership election was held in August 2020, after Jo Swinson, the previous leader of the Liberal Democrats, lost her seat in the 2019 general election. It was initially set to be held in July 2020, but due to the COVID-19 pandemic it was delayed by six weeks, having been at first postponed until May 2021.
The question has loomed over Democrats and their allies since Donald Trump was elected to a second term: Do party leaders and liberal, pro-democracy activists have the juice to launch a passionate ...
Eleven Liberal Democrat members of Parliament (MPs) were elected to the House of Commons of the United Kingdom at the 2019 general election. [1] Four more were subsequently elected at parliamentary by-elections in Chesham and Amersham, North Shropshire, Tiverton and Honiton and Somerton and Frome bringing the total to 15.
Democrats, who will elect their committee leaders next week behind closed doors, are closely watching the high-profile race to be the Oversight Committee’s top Democrat as a litmus test about ...