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	Liberal Democrat MEPs in the European Parliament News Stories (Devizes Constituency Liberal Democrats)
		The European Parliament has given a positive signal to the Western Balkan countries by adopting a package of visa facilitation agreements which will give genuine travellers from the Balkans the right to travel more easily to Europe.
		The UK must learn from other EU Member States and support a Europe-wide code of practice if the fight against super bugs is to be won, according to a Liberal Democrat MEP.
		UK legislation implementing the controversial EU Directive on data retention, which allows details of phone calls to be kept for 12 months, came into force today.
	www.devizeslibdems.org.uk /news/external/2.html (679 words)

	Devizes (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Devizes is a town and civil parish in the English county of Wiltshire.
		Devizes is a civil parish, with an elected town council.
		Devizes is part of the Devizes parliamentary constituency, which is currently held by Conservative Michael Ancram.
	www.gettingfriends.co.uk /devizes_info.htm (793 words)

	U.K. Political Quiz Questions
		However, asked about a Glasgow rape case in January 1982, he told the press of the reason not to prosecute before informing parliament and was forced to resign.
		Joan Lestor MP (Lab, Eccles), while touring the Aspro factory in Slough (her then constituency was Eton and Slough).
		The borough was reduced to two MPs in 1983 and O'Halloran lost out to Islington Central MP John Grant; he subsequently resigned and sat in parliament as a "Labour Independent in support of the Parliamentary Labour Party".
	www.australianpolitics.com /uk/quiz.shtml (5131 words)

	UK: House of Commons Debate on Iraq - 3-6-02
		There is a compelling case for the UK at the least to send someone such as Lord Levy to Iraq to discuss security and inclusion, which relate to internal scrutiny.
		A debate and a vote on the subject are not constitutionally necessary—there are plenty of precedents to the contrary—or politically essential.
		We found out only later that she was a professional actress and that the whole stunt had been paid for as part of the war propaganda.
	www.iraqwatch.org /government/UK/Commons/uk-commons-030602.htm (10086 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Programmes \| BBC Parliament \| Prime Minister's Questions
		Michael Ancram (Devizes, Conservative) questioned government policy on Europe in the light of a European Socialists' document signed by the minister for Europe supporting increased powers to the EU on tax and other policies.
		Jim Sheridan (West Renfrewshire) raised the matter of redundancies in the UK in the light of moves abroad for cheap labour.
		The prime minister acknowledged the importance of the concern and said the secretary of state for health was attending to it.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/low/programmes/bbc_parliament/3790615.stm (956 words)

	Devizes - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Devizes
		Features include ancient earthworks and fragments of a Norman castle destroyed by Oliver Cromwell in 1645.
		Devizes lies at the mouth of the Vale of Pewsey.
		Nearby to the west of the town, the course of the Kennet and Avon Canal is interrupted with a series of 29 locks.
	encyclopedia.farlex.com /Devizes (213 words)

	The Zimbabwe Situation
		Michael Ancram (Devizes) (Con): I am grateful to the Foreign Secretary for giving way, but it is quite obvious that he has so little to say about what the Government are going to do in Zimbabwe that he is fabricating a case to which he can then try to provide an answer.
		We have urged the international community, and the UK in particular, to continue providing aid to the long-suffering people of Zimbabwe and to ensure, as far as possible, that it is not diverted for political ends, as will be the real danger with the parliamentary elections next spring.
		Many of my constituents are poor, and, through their taxes, they pay to feed millions of people in what was once the breadbasket of Africa.
	www.zimbabwesituation.com /jul4_2004.html (21270 words)

	Report with respect to the areas comprised in the constituencies of Basildon; Castle Point; Brigg and Cleethorpes; ...
		Report with respect to the areas comprised in the constituencies of Basildon; Castle Point; Brigg and Cleethorpes; Glanford and Scunthorpe; Bristol East; Woodspring; Kingswood; Wansdyke; Wells; Weston-Super-Mare; Devizes; Swindon; Huntingdon; Peterborough; Knowsley North; Knowsley South; Newcastle-under-Lyme; Stoke-on-Trent North; Stafford; Nuneaton; Rugby and Kenilworth; South Dorset and West Dorset.
		The enumeration date for the review was 22 June 1984 and, accordingly, the proposals are based on the number of parliamentary electors in each constituency on that date.
		As required by House of Commons (Redistribution of Seats) Acts, 1949 and 1958, the findings were distributed widely in the constituencies concerned and the public was invited to make comments on them.
	www.bopcris.ac.uk /bopall/ref19646.html (257 words)

	FCO: Straw on Threat from and Action Against Iraq - 3-12-02
		Friend the Prime Minister ensured that Parliament was recalled from recess not once but twice, and there were five separate debates—all in Government time—on Afghanistan between September and December.
		I strongly accept that we do not take military action without clear and compelling evidence—I have read out some of that—and take it only where it is clear that it is, as it were, the last resort.
		Michael Ancram (Devizes): The Foreign Secretary has already clearly shown that Saddam Hussein possesses a vast arsenal of weapons of mass destruction, and that he continues to develop such weapons.
	www.iraqwatch.org /government/UK/FCO/parliament-straw-031202.htm (2047 words)

	Chippenham (UK Parliament constituency) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Chippenham will be a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.
		There was a constituency named after the town of Chippenham from 1885 to 1983, when the name of that constituency was changed to North Wiltshire.
		This new constituency of Chippenham will be fought for the first time at the UK General Election of 2009 or 2010.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Chippenham_(UK_Parliament_constituency) (366 words)

	MP for a day? (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The election was held on 5 th July 1945, but the result was delayed until the 26 th to allow the votes from servicemen overseas to be counted.
		Mrs Margo MacDonald was elected SNP Member of the Scottish Parliament for the Lothians on 6 th May 1999.
		She was elected as an Independent Member of the Scottish Parliament for the Lothians in 2003.
	www.alba.org.uk /westminster/shortest.html (398 words)

	UK Parliament - House of Commons
		One of the main issues at Lancaster house was land reform, and the agreement set out a clear pathway, based on justice and the rule of law, for land ownership in Zimbabwe to be extended.
		and learned Member for Devizes is listening—the idea that the United Kingdom, as the former colonial power, and in the absence of an African consensus to get to grips with a problem that stares it in the face, can take action beyond that which we are already taking is pie in the sky.
		That raises expectations beyond the point at which they can be fulfilled, but worse still, it feeds the Mugabe propaganda that we still hanker after exercising some kind of imperialist, colonialist power there, or that we still have it.
	www.zimbabwedemocracytrust.org /outcomes/details?contentId=1930 (8180 words)

	UKIP - Devizes Constituency Association
		The UK Independence Party is committed to withdrawing Britain from the European Union.
		The UK Independence Party is the fourth largest political party in the UK.
		We currently have 10 members of the European Parliament who use their positions exclusively to expose the true nature of the EU and to campaign for British withdrawal.
	www.ukip-devizes.org.uk (269 words)

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		Brandon 3 Residents and Tenants Association, UK >191.
		Church in Society, Dioceses of Canterbury and Rochester, UK >309.
		Devizes and Marlborough Friends of the Earth, UK >405.
	home.earthlink.net /~jascourt/signatories.txt (5213 words)

	Lyneham Village Online - General Election 2005
		The votes are in, and the count has finished, Congratulations to James Gray on holding the North Wiltshire Constituency.
		Speaking just before the local results were announced, James Gray was extremely proud of the electorate and pleased to have served the constituency.
		As the results were announced in the early hours of this morning, Mr Gray received a massive 26,282 votes from North Wiltshire and will continue to represent the area in Parliament.
	www.lynehamvillage.com /community/council/election/genelec05reslts.html (604 words)

	Anthony Hurd - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		He was first elected to the Newbury constituency in the 1945 general election and won each successive election in Newbury until standing down before the 1964 general election.
		On August 24, 1964 he was granted a life peerage with the title Baron Hurd, of Newbury in the Royal County of Berkshire which allowed him to take up a seat in the House of Lords.
		His father, Sir Percy Hurd, was also an MP for Devizes; his son, Douglas Hurd, was the MP for Mid-Oxfordshire and also a former Foreign Secretary.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Anthony_Hurd (206 words)

	Wansdyke (UK Parliament constituency) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Wansdyke is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.
		The constituency covers the part of Bath and North East Somerset that is not in the Bath constituency.
		At the next general election 2009/2010 much of this constituency will change to North East Somerset (UK Parliament constituency).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Wansdyke_(UK_Parliament_constituency) (162 words)

	Election May 23 2001 \| Gallery \| Guardian Unlimited
		Model and Daily Star front page staple Jordan, who will be standing in the general election as an independent candidate in the Stretford and Urmston constituency of Greater Manchester under her real name, Katie Price.
		Writer and broadcaster Sir Ludovic Kennedy, who has announced that he is to stand for parliament in a bid to legalise voluntary euthanasia.
		The 81-year-old has registered as an independent candidate for his home constituency of Devizes in Wiltshire, the seat being defended by Conservative party chairman Michael Ancram.
	www.guardian.co.uk /gall/0,8542,495313,00.html (301 words)

	The 2005 General Election page : Swindon Stop the War Coalition
		Swindon North constituency - Labour hold with a majority of 2,571, with 43.1% of the vote but only 26.6% of the electorate.
		Profiles of candidates standing in Wiltshire constituencies (Devizes, Salisbury, Swindon North, Swindon South, Westbury and Wiltshire North), courtesy of Newsquest, publishers of the Evening Advertiser: http://www.thisiswiltshire.co.uk/wiltshire/electio...
		Includes a scrollable, zoom-in, zoom-out, interactive map of constituencies listing the candidates in each at http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/vote2005/flash_map/...
	www.swindonstopwar.org.uk /2005election.htm (1059 words)

	Wiltshire Liberal Democrats
		Lib Dems in the Chippenham Constituency Back Green Tax Plans
		Duncan Hames and Liberal Democrats in Chippenham, Bradford-on-Avon, Corsham and Melksham have welcomed plans that will make Britain a zero carbon country by the middle of the century.
		The European Parliament has announced that from 30th July there will be a cap on the amount phone operators can charge for using your phone to call home from the continent.
	www.wiltshirelibdems.org.uk (572 words)

	The Henry Jackson Society:Would-Be Fascist World Rule
		The other leading members of the Henry Jackson Society UK similarly convey the idea that this project is being promoted by the upper echelons of what is historically known as the "Club of the Isles," the heart of the Anglo-Dutch financier oligarchy.
		Labour Member of Parliament for Rotherdam, and was Minister of State for Europe at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office until the 2005 ministerial reshuffle.
		In 1996 he was returned to the Northern Ireland forum for Political Dialogue for the constituency of Upper Bann (1996-98), and led his party into the multi-party negotiations which commenced in June 1996.
	www.larouchepub.com /other/2006/3333uk_scoop_soc.html (4370 words)

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		To me it makes no sense - they're still exactly the same person as before, and their extra duties mean they'll have to neglect their constituency.
		Probably because of a party leader's hugely increased public visibility, both in the media in general and at (or addressing) the Despatch Box in the Commons.
		MPs have staff for the more routine matters and to pass up to the MP anything requiring his/her personal attention, so I suspect that only minimal changes need to be made to that arrangement when an MP becomes party leader.
	www.ureader.co.uk /message/629750.aspx (1556 words)

	BLS 408 Twentieth Century Britain
		The region he is responsible for is South West, his constituency is the Devizes and he is a sitting MP in the House of Commons.
		Of the nine groups that rule in the European Parliament, Pauline Green is the Head of the Party of the European Socialist Group.
		As a member of the European Parliament from the United Kingdom, Prime Minister Tony Blair chose her as his choice for Mayor of London.
	courses.washington.edu /britain/names.htm (3251 words)

	Wiltshire County Council \| Members of Parliament
		You are here: Wiltshire County Council > Home > Council and Democracy > Members of parliament - MPs and MEPs - general information > Members of Parliament
		Wiltshire is divided into 6 constituencies, each of which returns one Member of Parliament.
		If you are unsure of which constituency you live in then use the House of Commons Constituency Locata
	www.wiltshire.gov.uk /members-of-parliament.htm (90 words)

	Political Opinions - All The Views, Straight To You (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Posted Friday 08th of December 2006 11:45 AM Yes, I know that I have been banging on about UKIP a bit over the last few days, but this is simply too amusing—and in keeping with the feelings of many Tories on the blogosphere—to ignore.
		He was constituency chairman to William Hague, when he was in the Cabinet and the party’s leader.
		In an answer to a Parliamentary Question, Julie has learned that there are 183 women in prison in the UK who have Welsh addresses.
	www.politicalopinions.co.uk /page/search/tag/parliamentary (2424 words)

	Voting Record — Michael Ancram MP, Devizes — The Public Whip
		Votes in parliament for which this MP's vote differed from the majority vote of their party (Rebel), or in which this MP was a teller (Teller), or both (Rebel Teller).
		This chart shows the percentage agreement between this MP and each of the policies in the database, according to their voting record.
		This is measured from 0% agreement (never voted the same) to 100% (always voted the same).
	www.publicwhip.org.uk /mp.php?mpc=Devizes (208 words)

	The SSP - is the adventure in its death agonies?
		Aye comrades, I'm a member of the SSP and it was a shit result, but don't forget that this is westminster where there was never any chance of Socialists winning a seat and everyone knew it.
		The Scottish parliament is far more favourable ground for us - Labour can't give us the old shite about "if you don't vote Labour the Tories will eat your kids etc", and the PR system is a far more fair way of electing representatives than the Westminster dominance with only a minority support.
		The commission revealed that 70 political parties throughout the UK had failed to meet the accounts deadline.
	discussion.newyouth.com /index.php?topic=1643.msg15996 (2500 words)

	Devizes (UK Parliament constituency) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Devizes shown within Wiltshire, and Wiltshire shown within England
		This United Kingdom constituency article is a stub.
		This page was last modified 19:32, 8 December 2006.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Devizes_(UK_Parliament_constituency) (134 words)

	Members of Parliament 2005 -
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	www.psr.keele.ac.uk /area/uk/mps.htm (159 words)

	Boris Johnson (UK) - Conservative MPs - List of Websites
		Home :: About Boris :: Constituency :: Photos :: Conservative MPs :: Buy Boris :: Forum :: Contact
		Boris Johnson - journalist, columnist and Member of Parliament for Henley on Thames.
		A full list of all MPs' websites can be found here.
	www.boris-johnson.com /conservative_mps.php (126 words)

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