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Alan Meale
Alan Meale, Labour MP for Mansfield
Alan Reid
Alan Reid, Liberal Democrat MP for Argyll and Bute - politics.co.uk
Alasdair McDonnell
Alasdair McDonnell, Social Democratic & Labour Party MP for Belfast South
Albert Owen
Albert Owen, Labour MP for Ynys Mon
Alcohol duties
Most products containing alcohol are subject to a series of excise duties: either spirits duty, wine and made wine duty, beer duty or cider and perry duty. These duties are collected by Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs and are levied on manufacturers and importers.
Aldous, Peter
Peter Aldous, Conservative MP for Waveney
Alex Salmond – Profile
Alex Salmond, SNP MP for Gordon
Ali, Rushanara
Rushanara Ali, Labour MP for Bethnal Green & Bow
Alison Seabeck
Alison Seabeck, MP for Plymouth, Moor View, Labour
Alistair Burt
Alistair Burt, Conservative MP for North East Bedfordshire
Alistair Campbell – Profile
Shortly after his victory in the 1994 Labour Party leadership election, Tony Blair appointed Alastair Campbell as his Press Secretary. Among his many contributions during the period 1994-1997, Campbell was said to have coined the name ‘New Labour’; drafted the speech that led to the symbolic rewriting of Clause IV in the Labour Party constitution;...
Alistair Carmichael
Alistair Carmichael, Liberal Democrat MP for Orkney and Shetland
Alistair Darling – Profile
Overview Born on November 28, 1953, in London, Alistair Darling is the son of a Conservative voting engineer and the great-nephew of a Conservative MP. Despite this background, Darling went on to become a Labour MP in Edinburgh from 1987 to 2015. His most prominent role in government was as Gordon Brown’s Chancellor of the...
All-Party Groups
Numerous all-party groups (APGs) are set up in Parliament, each having its own terms of reference. They allow for MPs to promote the interests of certain subjects or countries (eg motorcycling or the USA) and have ad hoc cross-party membership. APGs are registered and regulated by House authorities.
Allan, Lucy
Lucy Allan, Conservative MP for Telford
Allegra Stratton – Profile
Downing Street Press Secretary Allegra Stratton assumed her new role as Downing Street Press Secretary on 8 October 2020, and is steadily becoming a household name as the face of Downing Street. Following the perceived success of the daily televised press conferences that marked the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic, Johnson decided to make...
Alliance party
The Alliance party describes itself as a non-sectarian party which advocates co-operation between nationalist and unionist communities and is aligned with the Liberal Democrats. The Alliance party has been involved in Northern Irish politics since the early 1970s but it has never really been able to shrug off its small party status. Its most well-known...
Alun Michael
Cardiff South and Penarth, Labour
Amber Rudd – Profile
Amber Rudd, Conservative MP for Hastings and Rye