#mp by election 2020

[blessedmoonsoul]

screaming at dems doing sensible things for once in their lives.....im flabbergasted

[fandomtrumpshate]

Defeating Tr*mp and the Republican party: how you can help

So as you've probably heard, there is a presidential election coming up in the US this November. You may even be experiencing some concern about the outcome of that election -- given both the high stakes and the active efforts by Republicans to suppress the vote -- and wondering what more you can do to stave off the possibility of a literal fascist takeover of the United States.

The good news is: you're not helpless. There are wonderful organizations out there -- staffed by knowledgeable, talented people with their feet already on the ground -- and they could use your help.

Here are a few of them:

VoteBeat offers deeply-researched local reporting about elections, which is both valuable and rare in the current news environment. A spinoff of ChalkBeat, it was founded and is run by journalists from ProPublica.

Spread the Vote is an organization that works on the ground to help every eligible voter secure the documentation and the access they need to make their voices heard. In particular, StV runs a program called Vote by Mail in Jail to help ensure that incarcerated persons also have access to these rights.

VoteRiders, like StV, works to ensure that every American has the opportunity to vote. In particular, they provide financial and practical support to trans people so that they can get hold of the documentation they need and can vote safely and confidently.

FairVote advocates for ranked-choice voting, a system in wide use outside the US which far more effectively captures the will of the electorate. (we don't have an individual feature page for them, but FV was one of FTH's supported orgs in 2020.)

(This is just a short starter list of amazing organizations, pulled from FTH's supported orgs list in past years; there are plenty of others. Please feel free to add them in reblogs!)

Ways you can help

Donate to one (or more!) of these organizations. These are all fairly small operations, even if their goals and their impact is large; they could use the help!

Volunteer your time. Many of these organizations rely on volunteers to make their day-to-day operations work. Sometimes it's necessary to do this volunteering in person, but often there is a remote option for volunteering if that's what works for you.

Run a fanworks auction to raise money. FTH recently rolled out a full and detailed playbook, sharing all of our organizational materials and step-by-step guides for how to use them and adapt them to your needs. This is a great moment to put that to work! Whether you want to raise money for one of the organizations listed above, or for some other nonprofit, or even for a progressive local candidate that could use the support (FTH doesn't do individual candidates, but you shouldn't let that stop you!) you can make a real difference while also helping to put more fanworks into the world.

[mydaddywiki]

Alex Salmond

Physique: Average Build Height: 5'8" (1.73m)

Alexander Elliot Anderson Salmond (31 December 1954 – 12 October 2024; aged 69) was a Scottish politician, economist and television host who served as First Minister of Scotland from 2007 to 2014, the first Scottish nationalist to hold the position. He was the Leader of the Scottish National Party (SNP) on two occasions, from 1990 to 2000 and from 2004 to 2014. He then served as leader of the Alba Party from 2021 until his death in 2024.

Born in Linlithgow, West Lothian, Scotland, Salmond was educated at Linlithgow Primary School, before attending Linlithgow Academy from 1966 to 1972. He studied at Edinburgh College of Commerce from 1972 to 1973, gaining an HNC in Business Studies, and was then accepted by the University of St Andrews, where he studied Economics and Medieval History. After Salmond graduated, he worked as an economist in the Scottish Office, and later, the Royal Bank of Scotland. He was elected to the British House of Commons in 1987, serving as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Banff and Buchan from 1987 to 2010.

Lets see… In August 2018, Salmond resigned from the party to fight allegations of sexual misconduct which he denied. In January 2019, he was charged with 14 offences, including attempted rape and sexual assault, but was later acquitted of all charges after trial in March 2020. Not the handsomest man in the world, but clearly others would have sex with him as Salmond admitted had an extramarital “sexual liaison” with one of the complainers. That's surprising as he kinda pings and was married to an older Moira McGlashan (17 years his senior) and they have no children. And they closely protected their private lives. Beard cough, cough Beard.

Anyway, Salmond's main interests outside of work and politics are golf, horse racing, football and reading. He takes an interest in Scottish cultural life, as well as watching Star Trek and listening to country music. Wait he's a Trekkie. Now I want to fuck him more. Sadly, Salmond died on 12 October 2024, at the age of 69 of a heart attack.

[mulderscully]

i'm thinking about how casey mcquiston wrote rwrb as a way to cope with tr*mp bring elected and how that resonated with so many queer people and how popular that book got at the height of the pandemic when we really needed a book like that to make us laugh and imagine a world where 2020 wasn't.. Like That. and in that one way things have changed, in terms of the popularity of rwrb allowing publishers to see that queer romance is worth publishing and that queer people deserve happy endings too and how noticeable the change in romance is from 2019 to today. casey really did make history with that book; do you understand? they changed everything with that book.

[sadbitchfangirl]

my stomach hurts, like this is a different kind of heartbreak. millions of women & poc just lost their rights because this country full of stupid, uneducated/ignorant & racist ass imbeciles who would rather elect a felon, racist, rapist, and selfish reality show star instead of a POC woman who is MORE than qualified to run this country. Not to mention all the men in the black community voting tr*mp because they think he gave them the “stimulus check” in 2020 for the pandemic he failed to act on. Who in their right mind thinks he’s fit to be president after being impeached TWICE

[zoobus]

Rukchanok "Ice" Srinork, 28, had pleaded not guilty to posting tweets critical of the monarchy.

Ice's Move Forward party, which won this year's election, had urged reform of the lese-majeste laws.

But the unelected senate used this as the main reason for blocking the party's attempt to form a government.

Opposition to the lese-majeste laws was one of the issues which sparked mass protests in 2020, lasting several months. According to Thai Lawyers for Human Rights, around 260 charges have been filed under the lese-majeste law since 2020. Some 2,000 people have been prosecuted under a variety of laws for their involvement in the protests.

On Wednesday, Ice was found guilty of insulting the monarch by a Bangkok court for two posts made before she joined Move Forward - in the first, she criticised the country's handling of the pandemic, and the second was a repost of a tweet that was said to be critical of the monarchy.

Ice will lose her seat if she eventually goes to jail.

Several other leading figures in the Move Forward party are also facing lese-majeste charges - many of whom were activists who took part in the 2020 protests. Those protests were ignited by a controversial court decision in February 2020 which dissolved Future Forward, the previous incarnation of Move Forward and the first party to campaign on a programme of sweeping reform of Thailand's institutions.

Future Forward had done unexpectedly well in the 2019 election, mainly on the back of enthusiastic support from younger voters. This year, Move Forward stunned Thailand's establishment by doing even better, winning more seats than any other party thanks to victories like the one Ice won in Bang Bon.

After King Vajiralongkorn succeeded his father in 2016, use of the lese-majeste law was suspended for around two years, apparently at the monarch's request.

But the boldness of the 2020 protesters in demanding royal reform prompted the authorities to start using the law again, more extensively than at any other time in Thailand's history.

The lese-majeste law is notoriously broad, which makes mounting a legal defence very difficult.

It is regarded officially as a national security law, and it is extremely rare for judges to acquit defendants. Often the trials are held behind closed doors, with no independent observers. There is also huge pressure on defendants to plead guilty, regardless of the strength of the case against them - conviction is almost certain, and judges routinely halve the sentences of those who plead guilty.

Trials in Thailand often take many years to conclude, which means the lives of the young activists facing lese-majeste and many other charges in relation to the 2020 protests will be consumed for the foreseeable future by incessant court hearings.

This form of "judicial attrition" has proved very effective at snuffing out the protest movement. Protest leaders, some of whom face dozens of charges, simply have no time now to organise.

[oneshortdamnfuse]

All this talk of third party voters when voter turnout for both candidates was significantly lower than in 2020.

Tr*mp had less people vote for him this election than last by ~1 million.

Trump winning =/= Trump gaining popularity. He won by less votes than he got in 2020.

Kamala had less people vote for her than Biden this election by ~10+ million.

In 2020, we voted like our lives depended on it. This election, a lot of people didn't vote at all.

Which is much more concerning because the presidential race was not the only thing at stake.

e.g. Florida needed 60% to vote yes on abortion protections, but only got 57%.

[sonicenvy]

I feel like I've felt genuinely hopeful about the state of things in the last week, which has been a trip y'all. I watched the Harris/Walz rally from Philly earlier and it made me feel so hopeful for the future actually. The fact that people are coalescing around this ticket, and are ready to come out to vote against tr*mp and his pr*ject 2025 weirdos gives me hope. For a minute there I was like, have I stepped into a time machine back to 2008????

For those of you who are not old enough to remember 2008, it was truly and wholly such a "you had to be there" moment. The hope, the optimism and the energy was off the charts because people were ready for a change that would dump dubya. I'm from Chicago (and I was living there in 2008), and the energy on the ground here was insane y'all, and I'm getting shades of that now.

So, like 2008 was the first presidential election that I was really aware of, and I think it fundamentally shaped something in me politically. I was 11 years old in 2008, and it was truly an unforgettable moment. My bff at the time's mom was a huge Obama supporter (she even drove to Iowa to canvas for Obama ahead of the Iowa Caucuses) and she had an election night watch party which we all were at. The energy there was palpable. The number of Obama/Biden signs in my neighborhood was off the charts, thick, thick on the ground. That night when it was announced that Obama had won, people immediately started blowing off fireworks. We were all partying out in the streets, filled with excitement and hope. There was a massive rally downtown with the Obamas that night. Fireworks kept going off all night. It was such a moment. So yeah, I'm getting shades of this now, and I like that so much.

In case y'all didn't know (or forgot) FLORIDA went blue in 08. Here's the map of the election btw, for those who don't know:

Anyways, the fact that there have been people rallying for Harris in republic*n strongholds (like THE VILLAGES) in FLORIDA is a promising sign. The fact that GEORGIA went blue in 2020 despite massive amounts of republic*n ratfuckery, is a sign of good things ahead.

But yeah, anyways, fellow Americans, check ya voter registrations and get out the vote!!!!!!!!!!

[chaithetics]

american anon. i am not white but i am usually white passing in most contexts. my most important question is about the direction of democracy there. (also i heard a lot of conservative Americans moved to NZ because they made up some fetishized version of it in their head and imagined it as a white haven or something; is that true?) but also yeah would be interested to hear about the current government's social policies.

Yes! That is true, a lot of Americans think this is some white utopia! And I've even seen some who moved here on tik tok say that racism doesn't exist here because you can actually see Māori when you go outside 🙃

We're in a cost of living crisis, unemployment is up, job ads are down, there are cuts in every industry, massive ones in education and the public sector, it's so crowded people with postgraduate degrees are struggling to get basic office jobs and even retail jobs, not even specialist roles to their degrees. House and renting market is insane. You would need a guaranteed job and supported financial system to financially do it here. It's not an environment you could come to right now and 'wing it'.

We have the highest incarceration rate of indigenous women in the world (yep! We're even beating the US there!), Māori are overrepresented in the justice system as prisoners, victims, and offenders. Māori have poorer health and education outcomes. Overpolicing exists and I even have stories of uncles and cousins who have experienced police violence in 'the modern era' like millenial family members.

Over four years (2020-2024) we had over 14,000 hate crimes reported to police. Between 2022-2024 more than a third of reported hate crimes targeted people of Asian descent. Between 2022-2023, Muslims reported 205 hate crimes, that's just over one every two days and Muslims don't even make up 1.5% of our population! Pasifika communities experience racism, our incoming Deputy Prime Minister, David Seymour made a joke on live radio about how he'd like to blow up the Ministry for Pacific Peoples (which IS a government agency and he was an MP then too) last year BEFORE the election and there were no repercussions. The current government has no interest in racism except enabling it, they've demolished a group that were investigating hate crimes and white supremacy, the Māori Health Authority which was established to promote better health outcomes for Māori, want freedom of speech laws to pass and make Universities have to agree to uphold freedom of speech policies to receive funding. They're changing the tertiary and primary education landscape with no thought for learners or educators. They're destroying the tertiary education sector and creating so many job losses that'll also have intergenerational losses for the students who won't get qualifications and training, especially in the trades sector. What they're planning to do, over 90% of our polytechs won't survive.

Gender affirming healthcare is extremely inaccessible here, some schools still don't allow students to use the bathroom or wear the uniform that matches their identity. NZ First want to make it illegal for trans women to use women facilities and for sports to be based on biological sex assigned at birth rather than gender identity and are disguising their transphobia as 'concern for women's safety and wellbeing' when every single man in their party voted against abortion law reform to decriminalise it a couple of years ago.

We're moving more to privatisation of prisons, more prisons being built, youth boot camps being set up for young people, especially Māori. One of the parties in government, NZ First, is very much interested in trying to make prison slave labour part of their punishment and accountability.

Education and healthcare is fucked with cuts and legislation. So many teachers and healthcare workers have moved to Australia. They've done cuts to make it harder for people to use childcare services, families are struggling whether they work or not. They're trying to force people to not work from home.

Our PM has said he won't touch the abortion legislation but he has said in the past that abortion is "tantamount to murder". Our incoming Deputy PM is the reason why it's legal for people to harass people at abortion and gynecological healthcare providers, because it's freedom of speech.

There are so many bills going through to kill the environment and just make money. It's damaging for the environment and Māori as the land is part of us and we are her privileged caretakers. There's too many bills there to name. There are some conflicts of interest that are getting involved with this.

Our cabinet is stupid, those ministers are only doing work that is a waste of time and money. It's people establishing unnecessary projects to waste taxpayers money and boost their ego and dissolving other ones for the same reason.

This country is a racist place. These are just vague brief points and I honestly just don't have the brain to type up more. It's four am, I want to not be stressed and sleep. I hope you're having a nice morning. And I do not want to hear something like "oh it's so much better than america though!/shut up and be grateful!" because it is a DISGUSTING time to be Māori here, we are being told that we do not matter and are second-grade citizens in our own country.

[lesbianrobin]

Not them implying you're voting for tr*mp when they're obviously a BT and a certain someone playing a character in that ship (it aint oliver) supported tr*mp back in the 2020 elections

DMCKSKXMSXJJEC PLSSSSS like ok i don't think it's necessarily fair to judge fictional characters by the actions of their actors or vice versa BUT! considering that tommy called chimney a chinese food delivery guy. i do have my suspicions as to his voting record

[capnsoapy]

congratulations to boris johnson for managing to resign in disgrace twice in nine months

(detailed explanation of Johnson's premiership below if you need to catch up)

After David Cameron resigned due to the Brexit referendum (2016), and Theresa May resigned after failing to enact Brexit (2019), Boris Johnson became the next UK Prime Minster.

Soon after, the COVID-19 pandemic began, and Johnson was in charge of the UK response. Lockdown laws were implemented, so meetings with others were highly restricted and it was an offence to do so; the exact rules changed frequently as the infection spread.

During this period (2020-2021), Boris Johnson held a number of work meetings and parties at Downing Street. When rumours of this circulated (Nov 2021), he repeatedly insisted in parliament that this was not true.

These claims were escalated from rumour with the publication of the "Sue Gray report"; an in-depth investigation into the so-called "Partygate" scandal, which resulted in (amongst other things) Boris Johnson being fined for breaking the law (May 2022).

When this news broke, a vote of no confidence was held in Johnson, and though it narrowly failed to oust him as Conservative leader (59-41), shortly afterwards a slew of Tory MPs began resigning in protest, threatening to collapse the government. His hand was forced, and he resigned as party leader (Jul 2022).

However, he continued as an MP, and so the inquiry continued over whether him lying to parliament should result in him being expelled from the house. During this inquiry, Johnson has claimed that any misleading was due to incompetence and ignorance, rather than intentionally lying (Mar 2023).

Boris Johnson received a copy of the inquiries findings, which recommended he be suspended and that a by-election be held to potentially replace him. After seeing the evidence and conclusions, Johnson immediately resigned (Jun 2023).

The full report will be published to the public shortly.

[workingclasshistory]

On this day, 15 January 1934, the popular UK tabloid the Daily Mail published an article called “Hurrah for the Blackshirts!” in support of Oswald Mosley's fascist movement. The article was written by Viscount Rothermere, who was an avid supporter of Italian fascist leader Benito Mussolini, as well as Adolf Hitler and his Nazi party. Rothermere declared in the paper that the election of Nazi MPs "represent[ed] the rebirth of Germany as a nation". After the Nazi seizure of power, when democracy was abolished and many socialists and communists were sent to the concentration camps, Rothermere praised how "Under Herr Hitler’s control, the youth of Germany is effectively organised against the corruption of Communism.” Rothermere corresponded personally with Hitler, and met with him several times, and wrote approvingly of how the Nazis had dealt with Jewish people: “Israelites of international attachments were insinuating themselves into key positions in the German administrative machine… It is from such abuses that Hitler has freed Germany.” Rothermere's family still own the Mail, which today continues to advocate far right politics. For example in recent years they have attacked the National Health Service for distributing HIV medication, falsely claimed that a terrorist bomber was an LGBT+ activist, falsely claimed that most people trying to claim sickness benefits were faking it, criticised the National Trust for acknowledging the existence of gay people, falsely claimed that 10,000 people were trying to claim sickness benefits because they were "too fat", mocked gay marriage, made countless false claims about Muslim immigrants and much more. Daily Mail columnist Melanie Phillips was repeatedly quoted in the manifesto of Norwegian neo-Nazi terrorist Anders Brevik who murdered 77 people. Today, the Mail is the top-selling newspaper in the UK. Learn about the fight against Mosley after WWII in our podcast: https://workingclasshistory.com/2020/02/17/e35-37-the-43-group/ https://www.facebook.com/workingclasshistory/photos/a.296224173896073/2186785314839940/?type=3

[wild-wombytch]

Hana-Rawhiti Maipi-Clarke, representing Te Pāti Māori, was appointed New Zealand's youngest MP at 21 (since James Stuart-Wortley, who was elected in the country's first general election in 1853 when he was aged 20 years and 7 months).

During her maiden speech in December 2023, Maipi-Clarke criticised the National-led coalition government, claiming that it had "attacked my whole world from every corner." She identified health, the environment, water, land, natural resources and children as key areas of disagreement with the Government. She performed a haka for said maiden speech :

Maipi-Clarke has ancestry in Ngāpuhi, Ngāti Porou, Te Āti Awa, and Ngāi Tahu. The broadcaster Potaka Maipi is her father. She is the grand-niece of Māori language activist Hana Te Hemara. Taitimu Maipi, whose activism contributed to the removal of the Captain Hamilton statue in 2020, is her grandfather. Wi Katene, the first Māori MP to be appointed to the Executive Council, was her great-great-great-great-grandfather

[mariacallous]

In case you're wondering "Ms. Callous, who is Andriy Derkach?"

[360degreesasthecrowflies]

"Rosie Duffield’s unwillingness to attend any event where she will be asked questions is entirely in keeping with my experiences of her, having worked as her constituency assistant in 2020. I found that trying to get her to commit to meetings (even those on Zoom during the pandemic) was excruciatingly difficult, as was trying to get her to attend to routine constituency work and in the six months I worked for her I think I can count the number of emails she responded to on one hand. This leads me to believe that Rosie Duffield is trying to insulate herself both from scrutiny and hard work, rather than any threat."

Context for those unaware: Rosie Duffield is a well-known TERF seeking re-election in the UK July 2024 election.

Duffield has frequently posted on her social media that because she is 'scared of her safety because of her views' she chooses to avoid any opportunity to speak with the residents of the area that she is paid to represent. She boasts about not answering her emails and when ever she is criticised, claims it is abuse.

In my opinion she should not be allowed to stand for re-election as a Labour MP.

[themalhambird]

UK ELECTION 2024: WHO'S LEADING THE FOUR MAJOR PARTIES?

The Conservatives currently have a majority in Parliament and form the Government. The Labour Party, with the second highest number of seats, leads the opposition. The SNP (Scottish National Party) are the second largest opposition party, and the Liberal Democrats are the third. Who's leading them?

This is, as far as possible, a non-partisan guide. The information is chiefly summarised or otherwise pulled directly from the candidate's respective Wikipedia pages. Any other sources will also be linked.

Click below to keep reading, and all that jazz.

Rishi Sunak, Leader of the Conservative Party. Current Prime Minister; Member for Richmond.

Rishi Sunak was born in Hampshire in 1980. His father is a GP for the NHS and his mother was a pharmacist who owned her own pharmacy. Sunak became head boy during his time as a day pupil at Winchester College, and worked as a waiter in a restaurant during summer holiday. He read philosophy, politics and business at Lincoln College, Oxford, and during the course of his degree undertook an internship at Conservative Campaign Headquarters. 

Sunak’s pre-Westminster career was in banking. He worked as an analyst for Goldman-Sachs before moving to work for a hedgefund management firm. He later became a partner in this firm, , and spent a couple of years as Director of an Investment firm owned by his father in law: In 2009 he married Akshata Murthy, an heiress; business woman; fashion designer; and venture capitalist in her own right. The couple have two daughters, aged 13 and 11. 

Sunak first became an MP in 2015. He campaigned in favour of Brexit in 2016. He became Chancellor of the Exchequer in 2020  whilst Boris Johnson was Prime Minister, and shot to popularity after the COVID furlough scheme was implemented. His Eat Out to Help Out scheme, which was designed to boost the hospitality sector during COVID  by offering a 50% discount on eligible meals, is thought to have contributed massively to the need for a second COVID lockdown. In April 2022 Sunak was issued with a fixed penalty notice by Police as part of the investigation into Downing Street breaches of their own COVID rules (this is commonly referred to as The Party Gate Scandal). 

Sunak became Prime Minister in October 2022 after his predecessor, Liz Truss, crashed and burned rather spectacularly. 

Kier Starmer K.C., Leader of the Labour Party. Current Leader of the Opposition. Member for Holbourn and St. Pancress.

Kier Starmer was born in Southwark, 1962, and raised in Surrey- the second of four children. His father was a tool maker; his mother was a nurse. Both were active in the Labour Party and Starmer was named after Labour’s first leader, Keir Hardie. As a teenager, Starmer was a member of the Labour Party Young Socialists. Starmer was the first member of his family to attend university, studying Law at the University of Leeds and graduating with first class honours. He completed his Post-Graduate studies at Oxford, during which time he served as the editor of a Trotskyiest radical magazine, Socialist Alternatives. 

Starmer’s  pre-Westminster career was in law. He became a barrister in 1987, undertaking legal aid work, including pro bono cases: he was instructed by Arthur Scargill during the Miners’ Strike of the Thatcher years.

Starmer worked primarily on Human Rights issues, including defending people facing the death penalty. He was appointed Queen’s Counsel in 2002 and became joint head of the Doughty Street Chambers that same year. He was Human Rights Advisor to the Northern Ireland Policing Board, and he marched and wrote legal opinions against the Iraq War. 

Starmer became head of the Crown Prosecution Service and Director of Public Prosecutions in 2008 and served in the position until 2013. Noteworthy incidents during his tenure include:

In 2009, Conservative MP David Davies calling for Starmer to be dismissed after Starmer  vocally opposed the Conservative Government’s proposal to repeal the Human Rights Act 1998 

In 2010, Starmer prosecuting MPs and a Member of the House of Lords for false accounting in the aftermath of the Parliamentary Expenses Scandal. 

In 2013, Starmer published a study demonstrating that false reports of rape are rare, and started an enquiry into the reduction of rape and domestic violence reports being made to the police. 

Starmer was knighted for services to law and criminal justice in 2014 and became a Labour MP in 2015. He was opposed to Brexit and  advocated for a second referendum. He replaced Jeremy Corbyn as leader of Labour Party in 2019, when Corbyn stepped down after Labour suffered their worst electoral defeat in roughly 80 years. 

In 2007 Starmer married Victoria Alexander, who was previously a solicitor and is now an Occupational Health Worker for the NHS. The pair have a 15 year old son and a 13 year old daughter. 

Stephen Flynn, Leader of the Scottish National Party* in the House of Commons. Member for Aberdeen South.

*Perhaps obviously, The Scottish National Party only stands candidates in Scotland. Flynn is therefore unlikely to be the next Leader of the Opposition, though the SNP will probably remain a major voting bloc in Westminster.

Stephen Flynn was born in Dundee in 1988. He studied History and Politics at the University of Dundee. He was elected to Aberdeen City Council in 2015, leading the SNP group in the Council. He was elected to Parliament in 2019. He replaced Ian Blackford as Leader of the Scottish National Party in the House of Commons in December 2023. 

Ed Davey, Leader of the Liberal Democrats. Member for Kingston and Surbiton.

Ed Davey was born in Nottingham  in 1965. By the time he was fifteen he had lost both his parents and was being raised by his maternal grandparents. He studied Philosophy, Politics, and Economics at Oxford. In 1989 he became an economics researcher for the Liberal Democrats, and was elected to Parliament in 1997. During the coalition Government he served as Undersecretary of State for Business (2010-2012), and Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change (2012-2015). He lost his seat in 2015, a disastrous election in general for the Lib Dems, but was knighted the same year for political and public services. He regained his seat in 2017 and became leader of the Liberal Democrats in 2019. He married Emily Gasson, also a Liberal Democrat Politician, in 2007. The couple have one son. 

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Additions to this post are welcome, but please stick to facts and not personal opinion. Provide sources where possible. Do NOT attack or otherwise insult anybody mentioned in this post based on physical appearance or other similar traits. The UK election will be on July 4th 2024. You can register to vote here.