The name Ginger Group was also used to refer to a group of Conservative MPs who, in 1917 opposed Prime Minister Robert Borden's use of the Military Service Act to introduce conscription during the Conscription Crisis of 1917.

It was run and guarded by personnel from the United States Military Police ( MPs ).

Sam Rainsy went into self-exile on 3 February 2005, citing fear of arrest after a vote in the National Assembly removed parliamentary immunity from himself and fellow SRP MPs Chea Poch and Cheam Channy On that same day, Parliamentarian Cheam Channy was arrested, and detained in the Cambodian Military Prison.

Canadian MPs wore red-topped caps and were armed with. 38 revolvers carried in a holster on the left hip together with white pattern 1937 web belt, brace and brace attachment in the same manner as the British Corps of Military Police ( CMP ).

Formerly, full color SSI were also worn on the " full color " ( white letters on black or dark blue material ) Military Police brassard, worn by MPs while wearing the green " Class A " service uniform or while wearing subdued field uniforms ( BDU or DCU ) in a garrison environment.

Ex-officio members of the Court include all the MPs of Sheffield, the Bishops of Sheffield and Hallam, and the Chief Constable of South Yorkshire Police.

In June 2009 the Police at Scotland Yard and the Crown Prosecution Service issued a statement regarding MPs ' expenses, which stated that they had not found evidence of criminal activity and that it was ' highly unlikely ' that MPs would face charges.

He defended the paper against a number of high-profile defamation suits, including from the Police Federation and the Conservative MPs, Neil Hamilton and Jonathan Aitken.

Some of the members of the squad went on to become privy councillors, law lords, judges, MPs, a commissioner of the Metropolitan Police Sir Robert Mark, and actors – including David Niven, who remarked in a letter, " these were wonderful days which I would not have missed for anything.

Following the 7 July London bombings, comments made by Naseem criticizing the security services and Metropolitan Police were widely criticized by politicians including MPs Khalid Mahmood and Shadow Home Secretary David Davis.

Over two-thirds of the members, and all the serving MPs, of the Liberal Party joined this party, led first jointly by Steel and the SDP leader Robert Maclennan, and later by Paddy Ashdown ( 1988 – 99 ), Charles Kennedy ( 1999 – 2006 ), Sir Menzies Campbell ( 2006 – 07 ) and Nick Clegg ( incumbent ).

There were long-running claims of corruption and administrative decay within Labour at local level ( the North-East of England was to become a cause célèbre ), and concerns that experienced and able Labour MPs could be deselected ( i. e., lose the Labour Party nomination ) by those wanting to put into a safe seat their friends, family or members of their own Labour faction.

* The Legislative Council: essentially the rubber-stamp Parliament, it was made up of People Commissioners ( known elsewhere as MPs ), who were sometimes elected, as individual members of the party, and always on the party platform.

A diplomatic row with China erupted on 5 May 2005, when President Chen Shui-bian of Taiwan arrived for a private visit and was welcomed at a private function at Suva's Sheraton Resort by Vice-President Ratu Joni Madraiwiwi, Ratu Ovini Bokini ( Chairman of the Great Council of Chiefs ), Senate President Taito Waqavakatoga and several other Senators and MPs, and several judges including Chief Justice Daniel Fatiaki.

Major won by 218 votes to Redwood's 89 ( with 12 spoiled ballots, eight ' active ' abstentions and two MPs abstaining ), enough to win in the first round, but only three more than the target he had privately set himself.

At the 2005 federal election, the Left Party became the fourth-largest party in the Bundestag, with 54 Members of Parliament ( MPs ) ( full list ), ahead of the Greens ( 51 ) but behind the Free Democrats ( 61 ).

Former prime ministers retain the prefix The Right Honourable for the remainder of their lives ; should they remain sitting MPs, they may be referred as The Right Honourable Member for Electoral district ( Canada ) | riding < nowiki ></ nowiki > or by their portfolio title ( if appointed to one ), as in The Right Honourable Minister of National Defence.

In 1838, Charists issued the People's Charter demanding manhood suffrage, equal sized election districts, voting by ballots, payment of MPs ( so poor men could serve ), annual Parliaments, and abolition of property requirements.

The use of the system means that MPs are sometimes elected from individual constituencies with a plurality ( receiving more votes than any other candidate, but not an absolute majority of 50 percent plus one vote ), due to three or more candidates receiving a significant share of the vote.

After more speeches against the Bill during early 1969 and with left-wing Labour MPs against Lords reform as well ( they wanted its abolition ), Harold Wilson announced on 17 April that the Bill was being rescinded.

This policy was controversial with the public and even some of her own Members of Parliament ( MPs ) ( as well as former Conservative prime ministers Harold Macmillanand Edward Heath ), but her success in the Falklands war led to a recovery in her popularity which contributed to the Conservative victory in the 1983 general election.

In March, at about the same time as Lyons led his group of defectors from the right of the Labor Party across the floor, 5 left-wing NSW Labor MPs, supporters of New South Wales Premier Jack Lang, also split from the official Labor Party over the government's economic policies ( for Lyons they had been too radical, for the Langites they were not radical enough ), forming a " Lang Labor " group on the cross-benches and costing the government its majority in the House of Representatives.

Other represented parties are the Portuguese Communist Party ( 16 MPs ), the Green Party ( 2MPs ) and the Leftist Bloc ( 8MPs ) all to the left of the governing coalition.

The exception to this sequence are the Business Questions ( Questions to the Leader of House of Commons ), in which questions are submitted about Parliamentary procedure, as well as any issue that MPs might want to raise to the government.

The salaries of the MPs are decided by the Riksdag Pay Committee ( Riksdagens arvodesnämnd ), a government agency under the parliament.

Wallingford used to return two Members of Parliament ( cut to one in 1832 and none in 1885 ), and had some well-known MPs ( often not resident ) including:

In 2005, the issue of voting along party lines was brought up when two Barisan National Members of Parliament ( MPs ), Bung Moktar Radin and Mohamed Aziz, supported a motion by Opposition leader Lim Kit Siang of the Democratic Action Party ( DAP ) to refer International Trade and Industry Ministry secretary Sidek Hassan to the Committee of Privileges.

In 2008, the Sabah Progressive Party ( SAPP ), consisting of two MPs, announced it would leave Barisan Nasional to sit on the crossbenches of Parliament.

By 1905 relatively few Unionist MPs were still free traders ( the young Winston Churchill crossed over to the Liberals in 1904 when threatened with deselection at Oldham ), but Balfour's long balancing act had drained his authority within the government.

The Conservatives were defeated by the Liberals at the general election the following January ( in terms of MPs, a Liberal landslide ), with Balfour himself losing his seat at Manchester East to Thomas Gardner Horridge, a prominent solicitor and king's counsel.

These included all MPs elected to sit for Belfast city, Counties Down, Antrim, Armagh, and Londonderry ( as opposed to Londonderry City ), two out of three MPs for County Tyrone and one out of two MPs for County Fermanagh.

Due to a growing isolation of the Republika Srpska after the peace was signed, she severed her ties with the SDS and formed Srpski narodni savez ( Serbian People's Alliance of the Republika Srpska ), and nominated Milorad Dodik, the then member of the National Assembly of the Republika Srpska whose SNSD party had only two MPs, for Prime Minister.

Another general election was called in 1951, and the Liberals were left with just six MPs in parliament ; all but one of them were aided by the fact that the Conservatives refrained from fielding candidates in those constituencies.

Conservative Future is aided in its aims by Members of Parliament ( MPs ) and Prospective Parliamentary Candidates ( PPCs ) with visits to branches.

( As a side effect, this provision means that MPs seeking to resign from parliament can get around the age-old prohibition on resignation by obtaining a low-salary sinecure in the pay of the Crown ; while several offices have been used for this purpose, two are currently in use.

Politicians in the party win a place in parliament by being on the Party List, which is drawn up before the elections and enumerates, in order, the party's preferred MPs.

The Act split all county constituencies ( which were represented by multiple MPs ) in to single-member constituencies, roughly corresponding to population patterns.

The agreement lasted from 1977 to 1978, but proved mostly fruitless, for two reasons: the Liberals ' key demand of proportional representation was rejected by most Labour MPs, whilst the contacts between Liberal spokespersons and Labour ministers often proved detrimental, such as between finance spokesperson John Pardoe and Chancellor of the Exchequer Denis Healey, who were mutually antagonistic.

However, they were later overtaken in the polls by the Conservatives and at the 1983 general election the Conservatives triumphed by a landslide, with Labour once again forming the opposition, while the SDP-Liberal Alliance came close to Labour in terms of votes ( a share of more than 25 %) although it only had 23 MPs compared to Labour's 209.

* United Kingdom Parliamentary expenses scandal following the disclosure of widespread actual and alleged misuse of the permitted allowances and expenses claimed by Members of Parliament and attempts by MPs and peers to exempt themselves from Freedom of Information legislation.

* On 29 May 2010 Chief Secretary to the Treasury David Laws resigned from the Cabinet and was referred to the Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards after the Daily Telegraph newspaper published details of Laws claiming around £ 40, 000 in expenses on a second home owned by a secret gay partner between 2004 and 2009 whilst House of Commons rules have prevented MPs from claiming second home expenses on properties owned by a partner since 2006.

However, a similar resolution was defeated by thirty-three votes in the House of Commons on December 15, 1927 when the MPs William Joynson-Hicks and Rosslyn Mitchell " reached and inflamed all the latent Protestant prejudices in the House " and argued strongly against it on the grounds that the proposed book was " papistical " and was a restoration of the Roman Mass and implied the doctrine of Transubstantiation.

According to historian Christopher Moore, coalition governments in Canada became much less possible in 1919 when the leaders of parties were no longer chosen by elected MPs, but instead began to be chosen by party members.

It was addressed by Labour MPs Jon Trickett, Emily Thornberry, John McDonnell ( politician ) | John McDonnell, Michael Meacher, Diane Abbott and Jeremy Corbyn, and Elfyn Llwyd of Plaid Cymru and Angus MacNeil of the Scottish National Party.

It was selected by the Rump, and most of its members were MPs.

This court decision resulted from a complaint by the Government of Prince Edward Island after that province's number of MPs was proposed to change from 4 to 3, accounting for its declining proportion of the national population at that time.

When PEI entered Confederation in 1873, it was accorded 6 MPs and 4 Senators ; however this was reduced to 4 MPs by the early twentieth century.

In the aftermath of the 1989 budget, which saw a fillibuster by Liberal Senators in attempt to kill legislation creating the Goods and Services Tax, Prime Minister Brian Mulroney " stacked " the Senate by creating additional seats in several provinces across Canada, including New Brunswick ; however, there was no attempt by these provinces to increase the number of MPs to reflect this change in Senate representation.