Sentences with phrase «resign as a member of parliament»

With the greatest regret, I am thus resigning as a member of parliament,» she wrote to the prime minister.

He resigned as a Member of Parliament on 9 March 1920 by becoming Steward of the Chiltern Hundreds.

Ed Miliband, the Labour leader, speaking on BBC Radio Manchester, said: «I think he should now do the right thing and resign as a member of parliament because I don't think he can be a credible voice for his constituents having pleaded guilty to such as serious offence.»

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The year after she resigned, following 26 years as a Member of Parliament, just 24 women became MPs and took their seats in Parliament.

Technically Home, was PM while not a member of parliament between the time he resigned his peerage and when he was elected as an MP.

«The Council also resolved that regional chairpersons, regional secretaries, regional treasurers, constituency chairpersons, constituency secretaries and constituency treasurers, are also not eligible to contest as parliamentary candidates in constituencies where the party has sitting Members of Parliament, unless they resign three years before the national general elections.»

Resigning to fight a by - election was eccentric and showed disloyalty to David Cameron, and I didn't understand David Cameron's decision at first, but as the leader of the Conservatives he must demand loyalty from his members of parliament.

Jo Johnson Johnson ended his two - and - a-half years as universities minister defending Toby Young in parliament, hours before Young resigned as a board member of the new Office for Students.

He also served as Member of Parliament for Bimbilla on NDC's ticket, on two occasions, from 1993 to 1997 and 2001 to 2002 when he resigned to for the ECOWAS position.

The incumbents for these seats were originally members of political parties before either being suspended or resigning from their respective parties and subsequently sitting as independents for the remainder of the Parliament.