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Impeachment is a process in which the Parliament of the United Kingdom may prosecute and try individuals, normally holders of public office, for high treason or other crimes and misdemeanours. First used to try William Latimer, 4th Baron Latimer during the English Good Parliament of 1376, it was a rare mechanism whereby Parliament was able to ...
In the United States, impeachment is the first of two stages; an official may be impeached by a majority vote of the House, but conviction and removal from office in the Senate requires "the concurrence of two thirds of the members present". [ 76] Impeachment is analogous to an indictment.
Impeachment is an arcane parliamentary procedure which has never been successfully levelled towards a prime minister or a Cabinet minister: [notes 7] the last individual to be impeached was Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville in 1806, and the last serious attempt was an unsuccessful 2004 effort by Price and ten other MPs to impeach then-prime ...
Thatcher (1979–1990) During her 11 years in office, Margaret Thatcher 's government suffered four House of Commons defeats. 15 December 1982 – A motion disapproving of a change in immigration rules was passed 290–272. [ 66] 19 July 1983 – An amendment motion on setting MPs' salaries was defeated 160-233.
This is a list of United Kingdom general elections (elections for the UK House of Commons) since the first in 1802.The members of the 1801–1802 Parliament had been elected to the former Parliament of Great Britain and Parliament of Ireland, before being co-opted to serve in the first Parliament of the United Kingdom, so that Parliament is not included in the table below.
v. t. e. Whilst the House of Lords of the United Kingdom is the upper chamber of Parliament and has government ministers, for many centuries it had a judicial function. It functioned as a court of first instance for the trials of peers and for impeachments, and as a court of last resort in the United Kingdom and prior, the Kingdom of Great ...
England. Northern Ireland. Scotland. Wales. Other countries. v. t. e. This article lists successive British governments, also referred to as ministries, from the creation of the Kingdom of Great Britain in 1707, continuing through the duration of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland from 1801 to 1922, and since then dealing with ...
William Howard, 1st Viscount Stafford. Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Strafford. Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Strafford (1672–1739) John de la Pole, 2nd Duke of Suffolk. William de la Pole, 1st Duke of Suffolk. Categories: Impeached officials. British politicians. Impeachment in the United Kingdom.