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However, the UK is not quite a two-party system as other parties have significant support. The Liberal Democrats were the third largest party until the 2015 general election when they were overtaken by the Scottish National Party in terms of seats and UK political party membership, and by the UK Independence Party (UKIP) in terms of votes.
David Lindon Lammy [3] was born on 19 July 1972 in Whittington Hospital in Archway to Guyanese parents David and Rosalind Lammy. [4] [5] [6] He and his four siblings were raised solely by his mother, after his father left the family when Lammy was 12 years old.
The Royal Air Force (RAF) is the air and space force of the United Kingdom, British Overseas Territories and Crown Dependencies. [7] It was formed towards the end of the First World War on 1 April 1918, becoming the second independent air force in the world after the Finnish Air Force [8] merging the Royal Flying Corps (RFC) and the Royal Naval Air Service (RNAS). [9]
Birmingham is the largest centre in the UK for employment in public administration, education and health; [184] and after Leeds the second-largest centre outside London for employment in financial and other business services. [185] The Gun Quarter is a district of the city that was, for many years, a centre of the world's gun-manufacturing ...
In Scotland, "baron" or "baroness" is a rank of the ancient nobility of the Baronage of Scotland, and a title of honour, and refers to the holder of a barony, formerly a feudal superiority (dominium directum) or prescriptive barony attached to land erected into a free barony by Crown Charter, this being the status of a minor baron, recognised by the crown as noble, but not a peer.
In March 2018 it was announced by the UK government that it was re-joining the Boxer programme, and in April 2018 it was announced that Boxer had been selected by the British Army to meet its Mechanised Infantry Vehicle (MIV) requirement. No details relating to quantity, cost, timeline or any contractual status were given.
Dick Caine, 78, Australian swimming coach and sex offender, lung and throat cancer. [3]Steve Hinds, 68, New Zealand rugby union player and official, and police officer, New Zealand Police Association president (1989–1995).