In resigning, was Hoyle resigning his job as an MP entirely, or just his position as Secretary of State? As someone unfamiliar with the UK parliamentary system, I wasn't certain if he lost his job entirely, or just lost his power in the party.
shareHe was still a regular MP... he just resigned from the elite cabinet post. That's why he spent his afternoons listening to complaints about paving stones and parking spaces.
shareWhat I don't get is: Are Aiden and Freya both serving as MPs? If so, how can that be? Aren't MPs required to live in the district they represent?
shareIt's usual for politicians to live in their constituencies in a Westminster democracy, but not required. If a politician doesn't live in their electorate, they usually live very near to it, so it's fair to assume that Aiden and Freya's electorates were very close to each other.
About 20 years ago there was a member of the Victorian State Parliament in Australia. His house was in his constituency, but when when the Electoral Commission adjusted the electorate boundaries of his seat in a regional city, his home was 100 metres outside the new boundary of his electorate. He continued to live in the same house and contested the next election for his old seat under the revised boundaries. No one thought the fact that he was living just outside the electorate was a problem and the candidate for the other mainstream party never made an issue of it.
People sometimes in the US rent a house and actually moved in if they win an election. One of the funny situations happened to George H. Blush. He rented a Houston hotel suite as his Texas residence but stayed in Maine or the White House.
However, the Republicans rented it only when he was in town, so the Democrats rented it and then threw a party for the news media. They told the news media they were partying in the President's Texas residence. After that the Republicans rented it full time until Bush built a house in a Houston suburb after leaving office.
I don't know everything. Neither does anyone else