Template:UK Parliament political groups
Appearance
Commons political groups | Lords political groups |
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HM Government
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HM Government
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Usage
[edit]This template outputs the lists of parliamentary political groups for transclusion in the infoboxes of Parliament of the United Kingdom, House of Commons of the United Kingdom and House of Lords, for ease of updating. Groups listed under "Other opposition" or "Other groups" should be sorted in descending order of size and then alphabetically, except that independent and non-affiliated members are placed at the bottom.
Syntax: {{UK Parliament political groups|Commons}}
or {{UK Parliament political groups|Lords}}
, as appropriate
Notes
[edit]- ^ Includes 43 MPs sponsored by the Co-operative Party, who are designated Labour and Co-operative.[1]
- ^ a b Green Party of England and Wales only. The Scottish and Northern Irish parties are not represented. The Scottish Greens are nationalist and republican and so do not sit in the House of Lords as a matter of principle.
- ^ MPs designated as independents may be elected as independents, leave the party for which they were elected, or be suspended from their party's whip. Six MPs were elected as independents in the 2024 general election, 5 have since joined the Independent Alliance.
- ^ The Lords Spiritual sit on the Government benches and are so depicted in the diagram above.
- ^ Including 14 Labour and Co-operative peers
References
[edit]- ^ "About: Members of Parliament". Co-operative Party. Retrieved 10 May 2024.