1922 committee

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That as the 1922 Committee (English: 1922 Committee ) known Conservative Private Members' Committee designates a Founded in 1923 parliamentary association of members of the British House of Commons , on the one hand the Conservative Party members and also to the backbenchers count.

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The influential 1922 committee has a chairman and an executive committee of 18 members. The name is derived from the general election of 1922 ; the 1922 committee was originally set up as a kind of informal aid organization for the newly elected members of parliament. After the following general election, membership was gradually expanded and from 1926 membership was open to all backbenchers of the Tories . The 1922 Committee meets once a week during parliamentary sessions to discuss current political issues and upcoming parliamentary matters on an informal and confidential basis. It reflects the mood of the backbenchers and is a decisive power factor within the party. The 1922 committee traditionally plays an important role within the Tories in votes of confidence and in the election of a new chairman . It is also an important power factor within the conservative party in day-to-day politics. In July 1990, the backbenchers of the 1922 committee forced Minister Nicholas Ridley to resign , despite the opposition of Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher . In the course of an interview in the British magazine The Spectator, he said that the European Economic and Monetary Union was a German scam with the aim of gaining control over Europe. In 2003, the backbenchers forced the resignation of party chairman Iain Duncan Smith .

Since 2005 the chairman of the 1922 committee has overseen the election of a new party chairman. Candidates declare their candidacy to him after being nominated by two other Members of Parliament; the chairman also oversees the election in a fixed mode. In order to initiate a successful vote of no confidence, at least 15% of all Conservative MPs must send a letter to the chairman of the 1922 committee expressing their distrust of the party chairman. According to this, the party chairman must unite the votes of more than 50% of all members of the lower house in a secret ballot, otherwise a new election of the party chairman is scheduled.

Since May 2010, front benchers are also allowed to take part in the meetings; Prime Minister David Cameron's initiative to give front benchers a vote within the committee previously caused heated controversy.

In mid-May 2019, the 1922 committee forced the early withdrawal of Prime Minister Theresa May , who had to agree to work with the then chairman of the committee, Sir Graham Brady , and the conservative chairman Brandon Lewis, to work out a specific timetable for her orderly withdrawal by the end of June 2019 .

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  1. ↑ Simon Ball: The Guardsmen: Harold Macmillan, Three Friends and the World They Made . Harper Perennial, London 2004, p. 104.
  2. ↑ Political Notes, " The Times , December 22, 1926, p. 12.
  3. ↑ 1922 Committee. BBC , October 15, 2009, accessed January 1, 2016 .
  4. ↑ 1922 Committee. BBC , October 15, 2009, accessed January 1, 2016 .
  5. ↑ No confidence vote in Theresa May: Rules for a challenge. BBC, December 12, 2018, accessed December 12, 2018 .
  6. ^ 1922 Committee: David Cameron wins vote on rule change. BBC, May 20, 2010, accessed December 31, 2015 .
  7. ^ How the 'men in gray suits' called time on Theresa May's premiership. Daily Telegraph, May 17, 2019, accessed May 17, 2019 .
  8. ↑ Conservative Party: New PM to be in post by end of July. BBC, May 24, 2019, accessed the same day. (English)