Westminster has its own fair share of nepo babies - in the current parliament, elected in 2019, 49 MPs are listed as being related to other current or former members. That amounts to one MP in thirteen, 7.5% of the total membership of 650.
Since 2010 the House of Commons library has been keeping a list of MPs related to other current or former membersIn the current parliament, elected in 2019, 49 MPs are listed. That amounts to one MP in 13, 7.5% of the total membership of 650.It does not count those who may have close relatives in the House of Lords, or first cousins in either house.
The most intricate nexus of family connections centres on John Cryer, currently chair of the parliamentary Labour Party. He is the son of two Labour MPs - Bob and Ann Cryer - married to another one, Ellie Reeves, who in turn is the sister of the shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves. For the DUP Ian Paisley Junior bears the name of his father, a former MP, MLA, MEP and husband of a peer. Scotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon is married to Peter Murrell CEO of the SNP.
Charges of nepotism are taken more seriously than such narcissism of small differences. Ian Wooldridge, the author of The Aristocracy Of Talent: How Meritocracy Made The Modern World,Amol Rajan is a Cambridge graduate In the 18th and 19th Centuries British prime ministers came more often than not from the hereditary House of Lords rather than the elected Commons. Many prominent families also had control in constituencies effectively appointing family members as MPs.
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