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| | 1922 Committee - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | In British politics, the 1922 Committee consists of all backbench Conservative Members of Parliament, though when the party is in opposition, frontbench MPs other than the party leader may also attend its meetings. | | | The 1922 Committee has a 12-member executive committee, the chairman of which must oversee any election of a new party leader, or any vote of confidence for the current one; such a vote can be triggered by 15 percent of Tory MPs writing a letter to the chairman asking for such a vote. | | | The committee was formed in 1923, but takes its name from the 1922 General Election. |
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| | Scotsman.com News - Politics - Tory rebels force IDS confidence vote |
| | It is understood that Mr Duncan Smith has agreed with Sir Michael that the confidence vote should be held at tomorrow’s meeting of the 1922 Committee immediately after the Conservative leader has spoken to backbench MPs. | | | However, Conservative Central Office was informed that 25 MPs had anonymously contacted Sir Michael, chairman of the 1922 Committee backbench committee. | | | The Conservative leader said he would fight the vote of confidence in his leadership. |
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| | Conservative Party (UK) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Conservative 1922 Committee will review the leadership, and in order for this to take place the chairman of the committee, Sir Michael Spicer must be presented with 25 letters proposing a vote. | | | Under the rules of the Conservative party, the back bench | | | At the same time a series of revelations about the private lives of various Conservative politicians also grabbed the headlines and both the media and the party's opponents made little attempt to clarify the distinction between financial conduct and private lives. |
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| | Conservative Party (UK) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Conservative 1922 Committee will review the leadership, and in order for this to take place the chairman of the committee, Sir Michael Spicer must be presented with 25 letters proposing a vote. | | | Despite a low turnout, the election resulted in a net gain of a single seat for the Conservative Party and William Hague's resignation as party leader. | | | In 1995, Major resigned as Leader of the Conservative Party in order to trigger a leadership election which he hoped would give him a renewed mandate, and quieten the Maastricht rebels (people such as |
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| | Conservative Party: Definition and Much More From Answers.com |
| | Under the rules of the Conservative party, the backbench Conservative 1922 Committee will review the leadership, and in order for this to take place the chairman of the committee, Sir Michael Spicer must be presented with 25 letters proposing a vote. | | | The name 'Conservative' was suggested by John Wilson Croker in the 1830s and later officially adopted, but the party is still often referred to as the 'Tory Party.' The Tories more often than not formed the government from the accession of King George III (in 1760) until the Great Reform Act of 1832. | | | The formal name is a vestige from the 1912 merger with the Liberal Unionist Party, and an echo of the party's defence (1886-1921) of the Union of Great Britain and Ireland and subsequent insistence on British sovereignty in Northern Ireland in opposition to Irish nationalist and republican aspirations. |
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| | Conservative Party (UK) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Conservative 1922 Committee will review the leadership, and in order for this to take place the chairman of the committee, Sir Michael Spicer must be presented with 25 letters proposing a vote. | | | Despite a low turnout, the election resulted in a net gain of a single seat for the Conservative Party and William Hague's resignation as party leader. | | | Under the rules of the Conservative party, the back bench |
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| | ICL - United Kingdom - "Constitution" |
| | The Conservative and Unionist Members' Committee (the 1922 Committee) consists of the backbench membership of the party in the House of Commons. | | | When the Conservative Party is in office, ministers attend its meetings by invitation and not by right. | | | (2) This right may not be invoked in the case of prosecutions genuinely arising from non-political crimes or from acts contrary to the purposes and principles of the United Nations. |
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| | Atlas Forum - Tory Crisis deepens... |
| | This is the dilemma for any Conservative MP spending this weekend agonising over whether to send a letter to the chairman of the 1922 committee demanding a vote of no confidence. | | | I came away from the Conservative conference two weeks ago thinking that IDS was in serious danger, but that it did not necessarily have to prove to be mortal. | | | Should he be removed, he will be the only Tory leader, bar the very special exception of Neville Chamberlain in 1940, not even to be permitted to fight and lose a general election before his party ditched him. |
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| | Labour party. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05 |
| | As Labour was a minority in Parliament and depended on Liberal support, the enactment of legislation proved difficult, and the government’s domestic program of unemployment relief and housing differed little from that of its Conservative predecessor. | | | In 1918, Labour withdrew completely from the coalition, and in 1922 it became the second largest party in the House of Commons and thus the official opposition. | | | In the early 1930s the party passed antiwar resolutions and advocated collective security through the League of Nations, but it favored aid to the republican government in the Spanish civil war and eventually came to accept rearmament against the threat from Nazi Germany. |
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| | Ulster Unionist Party - Introduction |
| | This relationship was based, to a degree, upon the historical partnership of Unionists with Conservatives and Liberal Unionists during the Home Rule crisis, and after the formation of the Conservative and Unionist Party in 1922, it was natural to continue this relationship. | | | From 1886 Saunderson was leader of the Ulster and Irish Unionist MPs at Westminster, and in his capacity as leader of the Ulster Unionists, he nominated the first members of the Standing Committee of the Ulster Unionist Council in 1905. | | | Notwithstanding the fact that Ulster Unionists held the Conservative Whip during this period, the Unionist Party was able to assert its independence by producing its own policies as expressed in decisions of the Annual Conference, or more often in the decisions of the devolved legislature at Stormont. |
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| | Take Ionescu - Psychology Central |
| | Image:Take 1.jpg Take (or Tache) Ionescu (13 October 1858 – 2 June 1922) was a Romanian diplomat and politician. | | | A leading figure of the Conservative Party for many years, he tried in vain to stop the party's merger with the Junimea group (also known as the Constitutional Party). | | | He favoured Romania's entry into World War I against Germany and after the war he was the head of the Romanian National Committee at the Paris Peace Conference. |
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| | UK general election, 1997 - Free Encyclopedia |
| | Marcus Fox - chairman of the 1922 committee | | | The Labour Party led by Tony Blair defeated the incumbent Conservative Party, causing a major change to the political landscape of the United Kingdom. | | | The defeated Conservative candidate challenged the result on the grounds that errors by election officials (failures to stamp certain votes) had changed the result, forcing a by-election on 20 November which was won by the Liberal Democrats with a much larger majority. |
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| | All Facts and Opinions: Troubles for Iain |
| | It was shortly after lunchtime on Tuesday that it became apparent the necessary number of letters calling for a confidence vote had been sent to the chairman of the 1922 committee, Sir Michael Spicer. | | | As expected, the reign of British Conservative Party head Iain Duncan Smith may be coming to a close. | | | As leader, he has reduced Conservative Central Office to a dysfunctional shambles - it is from within Central Office that much of the whispering campaign against him has emanated. |
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| | Conservative Party Leaders |
| | If there are more than two candidates who seek the leadership, then the '1922 Committee' holds an eliminating ballot until only two are left (with new candidates not permitted to enter the race after the first ballot). | | | 7th July 1941 Elections for Conservative Party Leader: 1965 (Resignation of Douglas-Home): 1st Ballot 28th July 1965 Edward Heath 150 Reginald Maudling 133 Enoch Powell 15 (Maudling withdrew and endorsed Heath, who was then declared elected nem. | | | When the two names are known, a postal ballot of individual members of Conservative Associations is held, and the candidate with the most votes is declared elected. |
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| | Troubles mount for Hague as party chief quits |
| | The MP, a member of the executive of the 1922 Committee of Conservative backbenchers, has emerged as the most prominent critic of Mr Hague's decision to couple endorsement of his leadership with approval of reorganisation of the Tory Party. | | | The Conservative Central Office spokesman said that Mr Halewood, a former deputy editor of BBC Radio 4's Today programme, had gone to help out the party in the run-up to the general election and had stayed on afterwards to oversee the scaling down of the press operation. | | | WILLIAM Hague's troubles intensified last night after Francis Halewood, the party's acting director of communications, abruptly left his post. |
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| | If there are more than two candidates who seek the leadership, then the '1922 Committee' holds an eliminating ballot until only two are left (with new candidates not permitted to enter the race after the first ballot). | | | 9th October 1966 Elections for Conservative Party Leader: 1965 (Resignation of Douglas-Home): 1st Ballot 28th July 1965 Edward Heath 150 Reginald Maudling 133 Enoch Powell 15 (Maudling withdrew and endorsed Heath, who was then declared elected nem. | | | When the two names are known, a postal ballot of individual members of Conservative Associations is held, and the candidate with the most votes is declared elected. |
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| | If there are more than two candidates who seek the leadership, then the '1922 Committee' holds an eliminating ballot until only two are left (with new candidates not permitted to enter the race after the first ballot). | | | 9th October 1966 Elections for Conservative Party Leader: 1965 (Resignation of Douglas-Home): 1st Ballot 28th July 1965 Edward Heath 150 Reginald Maudling 133 Enoch Powell 15 (Maudling withdrew and endorsed Heath, who was then declared elected nem. | | | When the two names are known, a postal ballot of individual members of Conservative Associations is held, and the candidate with the most votes is declared elected. |
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| | Conservative Party Leaders |
| | If there are more than two candidates who seek the leadership, then the '1922 Committee' holds an eliminating ballot until only two are left (with new candidates not permitted to enter the race after the first ballot). | | | An incumbent Leader may be challenged if 15% of the Parliamentary Party send in a letter expressing no confidence; if this happens, a vote of confidence is held in the current Leader. | | | 9th October 1966 Elections for Conservative Party Leader: 1965 (Resignation of Douglas-Home): 1st Ballot 28th July 1965 Edward Heath 150 Reginald Maudling 133 Enoch Powell 15 (Maudling withdrew and endorsed Heath, who was then declared elected nem. |
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| | BBC NEWS UK UK Politics Conservative Party Leadership Election |
| | As well as the resignation or death of the leader, there can now be a leadership election if 15% of Conservative MPs trigger a vote of no confidence by signing a letter to the chairman of the 1922 Backbench Committee. | | | After the Conservatives' catastrophic defeat in the 1997 General Election, William Hague was elected leader under the existing rules. | | | When in 1975 the party became disillusioned with Sir Edwarth Heath, who refused to resign despite electoral defeats, the rules were changed to allow an annual challenge to the leader. |
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| | Chairman of the Conservative Parliamentary Party, Chairman of The 1922 Committee and member of the Board of the Conservative Party. | | | Former Government Whip, Minister for Social Security and Vice-Chairman of the Conservative Party. | | | Conservative MPs have voiced their support in advance of Torch's gala dinner. |
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| | BBC NEWS UK UK Politics Conservative Party Leadership Election |
| | As well as the resignation or death of the leader, there can now be a leadership election if 15% of Conservative MPs trigger a vote of no confidence by signing a letter to the chairman of the 1922 Backbench Committee. | | | After the Conservatives' catastrophic defeat in the 1997 General Election, William Hague was elected leader under the existing rules. | | | When in 1975 the party became disillusioned with Sir Edwarth Heath, who refused to resign despite electoral defeats, the rules were changed to allow an annual challenge to the leader. |
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| | The Conservative Party (UK) |
| | Under the rules of the Conservative party, the back bench Conservative 1922 Committee will review the leadership, and in order for this to take place the chairman of the committee, Sir Michael Spicer must be presented with 25 letters proposing a vote. | | | In 1922 Andrew Bonar Law returned to frontline politics but he felt that in the circumstances of the Carlton Club Meeting he could not accept the King's commission to form a government until he had been confirmed as "Leader of the Conservative Party". | | | The formal name is a vestige from the 1912 merger with the Liberal Unionist Party, and an echo of the party's defence (1886-1921) of the union of Great Britain and Ireland and subsequent insistence on British sovereignty in Northern Ireland in opposition to Irish nationalist and republican aspirations. |
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| | BBC Politics 97 |
| | In the last leadership election in 1995, the then Chairman of the 1922 Committee, Sir Marcus Fox, also ruled that two Conservative MPs not in receipt of the Whip - Dame Janet Fookes (Deputy Speaker) and Michael Morris (Chairman of Ways and Means) could vote if they wished. | | | The Chairman of the 1922 Committee will again presumably have discretion over whether Alan Haselhurst (Chairman of Ways and Means) and Michael Lord (Deputy Chairman of Ways and Means) are entitled to vote. | | | The rules say all MPs in receipt of the Conservative whip can vote. |
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| | Michael Spicer -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article |
| | He is (A person who has conservative ideas or opinions) Conservative backbencher, and is chairman of the (Click link for more info and facts about 1922 committee) 1922 committee. | | | Sir Michael William Hardy Spicer (born January 22, 1943) is the (The people of Great Britain) British (An elected member of the British Parliament: a member of the House of Commons) member of Parliament for West (A savory sauce of vinegar and soy sauce and spices) Worcestershire. | | | Michael Spicer -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article |
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| | Guardian Sir Antony Buck |
| | Having thus excluded himself during her long reign, he served as chairman of the Conservative MPs' defence committee and on the executive of their backbench 1922 committee, as well as the parliamentary commission for the ombudsman and on the Commons liaison committee. | | | Smiling Sir Antony Buck QC, who has died aged 74, was, for 31 years, the Conservative MP for Colchester (1961-83) and Colchester North (1983-92), and a former navy minister. | | | His first promotion, in 1963, was as PPS to Sir John Hobson, the attorney general, then implicated in hiding John Profumo's lies. |
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| | The Nobel Peace Prize 1901-2000 |
| | In the 1920s, Venstre's domination of the Nobel Committee continued even after the death of Jørgen Løvland and despite the choice of Conservative law professor Fredrik Stang (1922-1941) as the new chairman of the committee and the inclusion of Labor party historian Halvdan Koht in 1919. | | | Old-timers Hans Jakob Horst and Bernhard Hanssen served on the committee from 1901 to 1931 and from 1913 to 1939, respectively. | | | Encouraged by the end of the Cold War, the committee was also prepared to intervene even more frequently than before in regional conflicts around the world in the hope that the Nobel Peace Prize could not only award deeds done, but also provide an added incentive for peace. |
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| | Tories will not censor MPs' election addresses |
| | But Sir Marcus told the weekly meeting of the 1922 committee last night that he had "looked into the matter" of Central Office interference and Dr Mawhinney had asked him "to make the position absolutely clear". | | | Brian Mawhinney, party chairman, sought to dispel growing discontent among Euro-sceptics by asking Sir Marcus Fox, chairman of the 1922 Committee of backbenchers, to inform MPs that they could say what they liked in their personal statements. | | | TORY MPs were told last night that their election addresses would not be censored by Conservative Central Office to make sure they were in line with the leadership over the single currency. |
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| | Politics Former Tory fixer dies at 74 |
| | Sir Marcus Fox, the Yorkshire businessman who rose from a bank clerk to chairman of the Conservative backbench 1922 committee, has died at 74, party officials announced yesterday. | | | As MP for Shipley he ousted the Old Etonian Sir Cranley Onslow as chairman of the 1922 committee, and was sometimes accused of being John Major's stooge as he battled to keep his party together during what Iain Duncan Smith last night called "difficult and turbulent times". | | | He became an MP in 1970, a government whip under Ted Heath and, briefly, a junior environment minister after 1979. |
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| | MARSHMAN S. WATTSON: An Inventory of His Records Relating to Pierce Butler's Supreme Court Appointment |
| | Records relating to Pierce Butler's appointment to the U.S. Supreme Court, 1917-1922. | | | A typed (394 pp.) transcript (marked "confidential") of the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee hearings on the matter of the appointment of Pierce Butler to the U.S. Supreme Court. | | | Pierce Butler (1866-1939) began his career as a St. Paul (Minn.) attorney, most of it spent in the general practice of law (1888-1922). |
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| | BBC NEWS Politics Duncan Smith faces leadership vote |
| | It was shortly after lunchtime on Tuesday that it became apparent the necessary number of letters calling for a confidence vote had been sent to the chairman of the 1922 committee, Sir Michael Spicer. | | | About an hour before the voting begins Mr Duncan Smith is to address a special meeting of the 1922 Committee, which is made up of Tory backbench MPs. | | | Iain Duncan Smith says he will fight a vote of confidence in his leadership of the Conservative Party. |
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