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Former Conservative Party deputy chairman and Ashfield MP Lee Anderson defects to Reform UK, becoming the party's first member of parliament. Anderson was suspended by the Conservatives after claiming that London mayor Sadiq Khan was "controlled" by radical Islamists.
2024-03-11

Prime Minister Boris Johnson self-isolates after meeting with Ashfield MP Lee Anderson, who later tested positive for COVID-19.
2020-11-15

Former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom David Cameron resigns as MP for Witney, triggering a by-election.
2016-09-12

Britain is reviewing the powers of the House of Lords after the unelected peers stalled legislation yesterday that would have eliminated some tax allowances for the nation’s poor. Senior Conservatives say the upper chamber of Parliament stepped out of their usual roles as technical overseers of legislation. However, Conservative MP David Davis warned that such a move was “bully politics” that would “disgust” the public.
2015-10-27

In a landslide victory, Prime Minister Victor Ponta's ruling Social Liberal Union wins nearly 60% of votes in Romania's parliamentary election, with a projected 66-67% of MP mandates.
2012-12-10

British MP John Hemming uses parliamentary privilege to identify a married footballer named on Twitter as having an injunction over an alleged affair as being Ryan Giggs.
2011-05-23

The Liberal Party of Canada announces it will introduce a motion to the Canadian House of Commons that calls on MPs to support a committee report finding the Conservative government in contempt of Parliament. The finding was in response to the government allegedly not supplying sufficient information on costs of crime bills, purchasing F-35 fighter jets for the Canadian Forces, and corporate tax cuts.
2011-03-23

Salum Khalfani Bar'wani of the opposition Civic United Front party is elected as a Member of Parliament, the first albino to serve elective office in Tanzania.
2010-11-2

Papua New Guinea Deputy Prime Minister Puka Temu joins with opposition MPs in an attempt to bring down the government of Prime Minister Michael Somare.
2010-07-19

British Labour MP Stephen Timms, a former treasury minister, is stabbed in the abdomen by a woman in east London.
2010-05-14