John Prescott to stand down as MP
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Former Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott announces he is to stand down as an MP at the next general election.
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Tony Blair stands down as prime minister after a decade in office Wednesday, amid rampant speculation that he will be made an international envoy to the Middle East.
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Former Prime Minister Alain Juppe said Thursday he will resign his parliamentary seat before his October retrial in a party financing scandal.
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Ian Paisley Jnr resigns from his position as a junior minister in the Northern Ireland Assembly.
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Sir John Bourn, the guardian of the public purse, who was criticised over his expenses bills, to step down.
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The Commons speaker's media chief resigns after urging the Tories to attack Labour MPs over their expenses claims.
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Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott has been diagnosed with pneumonia and has been moved to the high-dependency unit of the hospital where he is a patient, his office said Tuesday.
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BusinessWeek Online - The nearly 10-year reign of British Prime Minister Tony Blair is coming to an end. The longtime leader of the Labour Party has been publicly humiliated by members of his own party and government. On Sept. 6, eight junior figures in his government resigned. "It is with the greatest sadness that I have to say that I no longer believe that your remaining in office is in the interest of either the party or the country," wrote one, Tom Watson, a non-Cabinet-level defense minister.
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British Prime Minister Tony Blair will   step down on July 26 after quitting as Labor Party leader on   May 31 next year, the Sun newspaper reports in its Wednesday   edition.
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Roger Alton, editor of the Observer for almost a decade, yesterday announced he would step down at the end of the year.
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Tony Blair steps down as prime minister and MP to take up new job as special Middle East envoy.
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ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Chaudhry Shujaat has resigned from his office and the federal cabinet has also been dissolved. The national assembly will elect the leader of the house on Friday while the new prime minister will take oath on Saturday.
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Pakistan's President Pervez Musharraf plans to stand down as army head, says a ruling party official.
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Deputy Prime Minister Mary Harney said on Thursday she would resign as leader of Ireland's business friendly Progressive Democrats party, the junior partner in Prime Minister Bertie Ahern's coalition ...
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The government of Latvia resigns after parliament rejects a draft budget for the coming year.
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British Prime Minister Tony Blair will   step down from office on May 4, 2007, Sky television said on   Thursday, citing senior Labour Party members.
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Outgoing PM to resign from parliament today as Brown engineers first victory over Cameron.