No confidence vote against TM as party leader

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"Number of ministers in the House of Lords
In Theresa May’s June 2017 administration, there was just one Cabinet Minister in the House of Lords (the Leader of the House of Lords).

25 out of the total 118 (21%) ministers in government were in the House of Lords.

This compares to 23% at the start of the 2015 Cameron administration and 20% at the start of the 2010 Coalition Government."
 
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Term of appointment: 1 July 2013 to 30 June 2021
At the request of the Chancellor, the Governor has agreed to serve until 31 January 2020.

Mark Carney is the Governor of the Bank of England and Chair of the Monetary Policy Committee, Financial Policy Committee and the Prudential Regulation Committee. His appointment as Governor was approved by Her Majesty the Queen on 26 November 2012. The Governor joined the Bank on 1 July 2013.

In addition to his duties as Governor of the Bank of England, he serves as First Vice-Chair of the European Systemic Risk Board, a member of the Group of Thirty and the Foundation Board of the World Economic Forum.

Mark Carney was born in Fort Smith, Northwest Territories, Canada in 1965. He received a bachelor’s degree in Economics from Harvard University in 1988. He went on to receive a master’s degree in Economics in 1993 and a doctorate in Economics in 1995, both from Oxford University.

After a thirteen-year career with Goldman Sachs in its London, Tokyo, New York and Toronto offices, Mark Carney was appointed Deputy Governor of the Bank of Canada in August 2003. In November 2004, he left the Bank of Canada to become Senior Associate Deputy Minister of Finance. He held this position until his appointment as Governor of the Bank of Canada on 1 February 2008. Mark Carney served as Governor of the Bank of Canada and Chairman of its Board of Directors until 1 June 2013.


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Jeremy Corbyn seems to think the EU has a democracy deficit:

The United Kingdom European Communities membership referendum, also known as the Referendum on the European Community (Common Market), the Common Market referendum and EEC membership referendum took place on 5 June 1975 in the United Kingdom to gauge support for the country's continued membership of the European ...
 
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Lord Chief Justice
The current Lord Chief Justice, The Right Honourable The Lord Burnett of Maldon is the Head of the Judiciary of England and Wales and the President of the Courts of England and Wales. The latter role began on 3 April 2006 when the Lord Chancellor’s judicial functions were transferred to the Lord Chief Justice under the Constitutional Reform Act 2005.
 
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  • The Lord Ashton of Hyde – Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Department for Culture, Media and Sport
  • The Lord Bates – Minister of State for International Development (unpaid)
  • The Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth – Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Department for Communities and Local Government and the Wales Office
  • The Lord Callanan – Minister of State at the Department for Exiting the European Union
  • The Lord Henley – Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for at the Department for Business, Innovation and Industrial Strategy
  • The Baroness Sugg – Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Department for Transport
 
If you look carefully, you'll observe that the top tier of the UK's ruling classes are frequently not elected to their positions.
 
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