Widdecombe joined John Major's government as Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Social Security in 1990.

This act was unpopular with the right wing of the Conservative Party, most notably Lord Cranborne ( later the Marquess of Salisbury ), who resigned from the government and spoke against the bill, accusing Disraeli of " a political betrayal which has no parallel in our Parliamentary annals.

The Parliamentary government had its way but it became clear that the division was not between Catholics and Protestants, but between Puritans and those who valued the Elizabethan settlement.

Constitutional nationalism enjoyed its greatest success in the 1880s and 1890s when the Irish Parliamentary Party under Charles Stewart Parnell succeeded in having two Home Rule bills introduced by the Liberal government of William Ewart Gladstone, though both failed.

Politics in India ( Hindi: भ ा रत ी य र ा जन ी त ि) takes place within the framework of a federal Westminster-style Parliamentary democratic constitutional republic, in which the President of India is head of state and the Prime Minister of India is the head of government.

Some ministers wanted St. Laurent to stay on and offer to form a minority government, following the logic that the popular vote had supported them and even though their Parliamentary minority was smaller than the Conservatives, the Liberals ' more recent governmental experience would make them a more effective minority.

Following the victory of the Left ( 41 % vs. 12 % of the subsequent party ) in the Parliamentary Election in 2001, on 19 October 2001, President Aleksander Kwaśniewski appointed Miller Prime Minister and obliged to nominate the government.

Cabinet is the most senior policy-making body and is led by the Prime Minister, who is also, by convention, the Parliamentary leader of the governing party or coalition, and is known as the head of government.

* Parliamentary republic — a republic, like India, Poland, with an elected head of state, but where the head of state and head of government are kept separate with the Head of government retaining most executive powers, or a head of state akin to a head of government, elected by a Parliament.

Later Parliamentary inquiries showed that members of the government intelligence services were involved in the instigation and manipulation of both the protesters and the miners, and in June 1994 a Bucharest court found two former Securitate officers guilty of ransacking and stealing $ 100, 000 from the house of a leading opposition politician.

His father was imprisoned during the 1926 General Strike for his involvement in a riot and later became Member of Parliament for Pontypool, Parliamentary Private Secretary to Clement Attlee, and briefly a minister in the 1945 Labour government.

At the 2011 Scottish Parliamentary election, the SNP won a landslide victory and became the first party to form a majority government in the Scottish Parliament since its resumption in 1999.

The inclusion of an Islamist party committed to secular government ( Islamic Renaissance Party ) and several other parties in the Parliamentary elections represented an improvement in the Tajik people's right to choose their government.

This provoked a wave of hostility to Walpole because many saw such an act as unconstitutional — that members of Parliament were being dismissed for their freedom of speech in attacking the government, something protected by Parliamentary privilege.

He declared in the Commons on 19 December that naval rearmament would commit the government to expenditure over a number of years and thus would subvert " the principle of annual account, annual proposition, annual approval by the House of Commons, which ... is the only way of maintaining regularity, and that regularity is the only talisman which will secure Parliamentary control ".

To his surprise, he was immediately appointed to the government as Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Works.

An Ombudsman ( Parliamentary Commissioner ) was appointed in 1967 to consider complaints against government departments and to impose remedies, while censorship of plays by the Lord Chamberlain was abolished ( 1969 ).

According to the journalist Paul Routledge, Donald Bruce, a former MP and Parliamentary Private Secretary and adviser to Bevan, had told him that Bevan's shift on the disarmament issue was the result of discussions with the Soviet government where they advised him to push for British retention of nuclear weapons so they could possibly be used as a bargaining chip in negotiations with the United States.

As from early 2008 the Australian government led by Kevin Rudd began what it called a " new approach " to relations between Australia and the Pacific, appointing a Parliamentary Secretary for Pacific Island Affairs, Duncan Kerr.

; Type of government: Parliamentary democracy with a constitutional monarchy.

The Governor appoints a number of senior government positions including the Puisne Judges, Police Commissioner, the Auditor General and the Parliamentary Registrar.

While the Canadian Parliamentary Channel's name was soon changed to Cable Public Affairs Channel to reflect the greater diversity of programming and the cable industry's ownership of the service, the original ownership structure continues today ; accordingly the largest shareholders are Canadian media giants such as Rogers Communications ( 41. 4 %), Shaw Communications ( 25. 05 %), Vidéotron ( 21. 71 %), Cogeco ( 6. 7 %), Bragg Communications ( EastLink / Persona ) ( 3. 76 %) and three other cable companies owning a combined equity of 1. 37 %.

Interestingly, today Bank Street officially ends at Wellington Street and the portion of the street running closest to the actual riverbank is federal Crown land for the Parliamentary Precinct of the Parliament of Canada.

In March 2007, Bridget Prentice, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State in the Ministry of Justice, stated in a Commons written answer that " there are no valid Cornish stannary organisations in existence " and that there " are no treaties today that apply to Cornwall only ".

Tiong's younger brother Tiong Thai King has been the Member of Parliament of the Lanang Parliamentary Constituency in Sibu since 1995 till today.

What is existing is Parliamentary Bill No. 1200 ( equivalent to that of a Senate or House Bill today ) which is the proposed law / bill creating the said municipality which upon approval, has become BP 171.

Canon Trotman further presumed that the figure of the Virgin may have been taken from its niche in the porch by the Parliamentary troops, but adds forcefully, " Even they could scarcely have done more havoc with the church than the hand of the so-called restorer in 1860 who, while substituting the pitch pine seats ... for the old carefully locked pews and capacious gallery, effaced at the same time much that should have been interesting to us today.

At the 6 May 2010 UK Parliamentary Election Dornoch was part of and continues to be part of the Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross Constituency.

A friendly rivalry, however, continues to this day between Conservative and Liberal members, who consider themselves “ Clios ” and “ Whigs ”, respectively, and take their places on opposite sides of the Senate chamber, to adversarially continue the nearly two and a half century ’ s tradition of Parliamentary Debate.

Under the delimitation exercise carried out all over the nation Mhow is now in the Dhar Parliamentary constituency though it continues to be in Indore district for administrative purposes.

Although the metropolitan county council was abolished in 1986, the county area continues to exist, for Parliamentary representation, in mapping, and especially for statistical purposes.

( Parliamentary custom dictates that the parliamentary day continues until the House is adjourned.

Further, they opposed the creation of an electoral college to elect the leader of the Party, who had previously been elected by members of the Parliamentary Labour Party – in particular, the arrangement of block voting by constituency parties and trade unions, with the total votes of a constituency party or trade union being given to a candidate based on a first-past-the-post within that CLP or union, or changed at the discretion of delegates ( similar to primary elections in the United States ).

It acted as the Parliamentary Court, had the right to control ' citizens ' books ', and had similar legislative rights as did the Chamber of Deputies.

University maces are employed in a manner similar to Parliamentary maces.

Even the Parliamentary forces in the time of Charles I and Oliver Cromwell were governed, not by an act of the legislature, but by articles of war similar to those issued by the king and authorized by an ordinance of the Lords and Commons, exercising in that respect the sovereign prerogative.

Smith's biographer, Mark Stuart, claimed that Smith could have won Labour a Parliamentary victory in 1997 on a similar scale to that achieved by Tony Blair because of the combination of the Black Wednesday debacle and ongoing Conservative divisions over Europe between 1992 and 1997 ; however, Stuart argues that the lack of a Blair effect would have meant that the Conservative Party would have held slightly over 200 seats in the House of Commons, leaving the Conservatives in a position similar to that of Labour in 1983 than to the actual Conservative result in 1997.

While not a " democrat " in any modern sense ( no one in his society was ), Massinger's political sympathies, insofar as we can determine them from his works, might have placed him in a predicament similar to that of the head of the house he revered, the Earl of Pembroke — who found that he could not support King Charles in the English Civil War, and became one of the few noblemen to back the Parliamentary side.

* Ireland: A Minister of State is junior to a Minister of a Department of State ( portfolio minister ) and of similar standing to a Parliamentary Secretary-see Ministers of State in Ireland.

When the Tribes were created the divisions were geographical, similar to modern Parliamentary constituencies.

With both backbenchers and frontbenchers able to attend meetings, the 1922 Committee now encompasses all sitting Conservative members of the House of Commons, although frontbench members attend by invitation and cannot participate in elections and is similar to the Parliamentary Labour Party.

The DAP went on to win 13 Parliamentary seats and 31 State Assembly seats, with 11. 9 % of all valid votes that were cast in the election ; the Parti Gerakan Rakyat Malaysia ( Gerakan ) which campaigned on a similar platform also made major gains.

In India, the Government of India ( Allocation of Business ) Rules, 1961 under Article 77 ( 3 ) of the Constitution of India created the Ministry of Parliamentary Affairs which performs a similar role.

A similar format, with 7 minute speeched and Points-of-Information, is known as the Asian Parliamentary Format and is used by the United Asian Debating Championships

The Parliamentary constituency of Wansdyke covering a similar but not identical area was replaced at the 2010 general election, when it was split and merged into the North East Somerset and Kingswood constituencies.

It is known by similar terms such as the Conference of European Community Affairs Committees and under the Treaty of Lisbon COSAC's name is listed as the " conference of Parliamentary Committees for Union Affairs ".