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It seems that sergeant major no longer dislikes onions. From now on, he hates eating anchovies. And Sam’s horse will no longer be seen eating oats, because from this point forward, he must eat apples.
BREAKING: Trump signs order renaming Lake Ontario as 'Lake America' in the US trib.al/JRwznMQ
Farage got approx 63% of the vote, Count Binface 27%. The others all lost their deposits. The Monster Raving Loony Party put up three candidates, their leader Howling Laud Hope falling short of his colleague Nick The Incredible Flying Brick (28-18).
The Clacton by-election result.
Clacton by election: full result by votes:
1) Nigel Farage - 22,239
2) Count Binface - 9,455
3) John Stevens - 492
4) Tony Francis - 432
5) Pamela Walford - 371
6) Laurence Fox - 347
7) William Clouston - 256
8) Nick Pelas - 202
9) James Ransley - 192
10) Stephen Ingram - 159
11) Kai Stephens - 132
12) Attieh Fard - 126
13) Derrick Morris - 100
14) Martyn Obrien - 65
15) Martin Davies - 60
16) Robin Green - 59
17) Rees Cowne - 50
18) Adham Alkhatip - 49
19) Amy Morris - 46
20) Andy Erlam - 44
21) Joseph 77 - 42
22) Nick The Incredible Flying Brick - 28
23) Ketankumar Pipaliya - 21
24) Michael O'Keeffe - 19
25) Howling Laud Hope - 18
26) Tony Cane - 17
27) Daniel Pocock - 16
28) Baron Von Thunderclap - 15
29) Abi Hookway - 14
30) Marc Wilkinson - 11
31) Marcus White - 10
32) Gerry Smith - 9
33) Woke Trump Carrzee - 8
34) Glenn Cummings - 7
Olivia Blake MP has been appointed a parliamentary private secretary at the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government. Her mother, Judith Blake, a peer, has been appointed a minister (under-secretary) in the same department.
@MichaelLCrick are you aware, in the modern era, of any other occasion on which two family members have been appointed to the same department at the same time, one as a minister, one as a PPS?
@DPJHodges have you ever known, in the modern era, of a time where two family members served in the same department, one a PPS, another a minister?
On 28 July 1540, Henry VIII married Catherine Howard, his fifth wife, on the same day as Thomas Cromwell was executed. Catherine Howard would herself subsequently be executed (13 February 1542).
Tony Blair became Leader of the Labour Party and Leader of the Opposition on 21 July 1994. He was Prime Minister between 1997-2007. He won the party leadership election with 57% of the vote, ahead of John Prescott (24%) and Margaret Beckett (19%).
#OTD 1994. Tony Blair becomes Labour Leader.
He talks of building “a country with pride in itself because it has pride in its people”
“It works when every person who wants to, can get up in the morning with a job to look forward to”.
Andy Burnham and Neville Chamberlain are the only prime ministers to serve as the country’s most senior health minister.
Four prime ministers have also at some point served as Treasury chief secretary since the position was created in 1961: John Major, Liz Truss, Rishi Sunak and Andy Burnham. Truss was immediately succeeded by Sunak in both positions.
Andy Burnham is the only prime minister to have served as culture secretary (2008-2009), the position having been created as secretary of state for national heritage following the 1992 general election.
The first time two brothers have both served as foreign secretary - Ed Miliband has just been appointment. David Miliband served between 2007-2010.
Ed Miliband has been appointed as Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs @FCDOGovUK.
The second person with that surname to serve in the job in the last fifty years, John Healey becomes Chancellor of the Exchequer. His namesake Denis Healey served between 1974-1979.
John Healey has been appointed as Chancellor of the Exchequer @hmtreasury.
A member of the Benn family has served in the Cabinet, at some point, of every Labour Prime Minister in UK political history. Unless Hilary Benn makes a return to the Cabinet during Burnham’s time at Number 10, that lineage will end.
On this day, 18 July, in 1992, John Smith became Leader of the Labour Party and therefore also Leader of the Opposition. He served until his death on 12 May 1994. Between 1978-1979, he was Secretary of State for Trade.
Every US President from Andrew Johnson (1865-1869) to the present day has been alive at some point during the lifetime of Herbert Hoover (1929-1933).
Since Abraham Lincoln’s assassination in 1865, every President has been alive at the same time as Herbert Hoover.
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11 July 1804 was the date of the duel between incumbent Vice President Aaron Burr and ex-Treasury Secretary Alexander Hamilton, who died as a result of his injuries. Burr was later dropped as VP nominee and replaced with George Clinton, who served in that job between 1805-1812.