parliamentary

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Veteran UK Labour politician Andy Burnham emphatically won a crunch by-election on Friday, securing a parliamentary seat and clearing the way for a widely expected leadership challenge against beleaguered Prime Minister Keir Starmer.

From Barron's • Jun. 19, 2026

Steenhuisen, 50, has been a key figure in the DA since 2014 when he was appointed the party's parliamentary leader.

From BBC • Jun. 17, 2026

A senior US administration official, however, said Trump, Vice President JD Vance and Iran's parliamentary speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf had already signed the text electronically.

From Barron's • Jun. 16, 2026

In the general election of October 1964, Hattersley won the seat as Labour scraped back into power with a parliamentary majority of just four.

From BBC • Jun. 14, 2026

Being in high school, she knew something of parliamentary procedure, and thought it might be a good idea to have the chairman represent the common people.

From "Cheaper by the Dozen" by Frank B. Gilbreth Jr. and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey