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19 hours ago · Credit: PA. Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer is expected to hold the first meeting of his new Cabinet as he prepares for a Nato summit next week. His newly appointed ministers will look to start ...
19 hours ago · Notes: F Also Father of the House (not necessarily contemporaneous with seniority) 1 Died in office 2 Retired 3 Defeated when seeking re-election Longest-lived MP. Although his alleged birth year predates parish registers and civil birth registration, William Badger, who was member for Winchester in the 1597 parliament of England, is supported by a History of Parliament biographer to have been ...
19 hours ago · Three-star reserve officers and the chief of the National Guard Bureau testify before the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Defense on 17 April 2018. There are currently 160 active-duty three-star officers in the uniformed services of the United States: 51 in the Army, 19 in the Marine Corps, 37 in the Navy, 42 in the Air Force, five in the ...
19 hours ago · Background Sir Henry Pottinger, the 1st Governor of Hong Kong. It was not uncommon for British officials to be given translation of their names in history. Before getting a new translation, the name of the very first Hong Kong colonial governor, Henry Pottinger, was originally translated as 煲 顛 茶 or Bōu Dīn Chàh in Cantonese which phonetically rhymes with his family name Pottinger ...
19 hours ago · 5 July. Results of the 2024 United Kingdom general election : Sir Keir Starmer becomes the new Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, following a landslide victory for Labour in the general election. [585] [586] The Conservatives are reduced to just 121 seats, the lowest number of MPs in their 190-year history.
