About Blyth


Blyth is a town and civil parish in southeast Northumberland, England. It lies on the coast, to the south of the River Blyth and is approximately 13 miles northeast of Newcastle upon Tyne. It has a population of about 37,339.

Richard Sharp: BBC chairman resigns over report into appointment

Richard Sharp: BBC chairman resigns over report into appointment
Apr 28,2023 5:10 am

... But he said with hindsight he should have disclosed his role in setting up a meeting between Cabinet Secretary Simon Case and Sam Blyth - a businessman who was offering the then PM financial help - to the appointments panel during the scrutiny process ahead of him taking up the senior role...

Richard Sharp: BBC chairman denies giving Boris Johnson financial advice

Richard Sharp: BBC chairman denies giving Boris Johnson financial advice
Feb 7,2023 7:31 am

... Mr Sharp confirmed he had introduced his friend Sam Blyth to Cabinet Secretary Simon Case in late 2020, which was shortly before his appointment at the BBC...

Richard Sharp: Boris Johnson was told to stop asking for loan advice

Richard Sharp: Boris Johnson was told to stop asking for loan advice
Jan 28,2023 5:51 pm

... That offer came from his wealthy Canadian friend Sam Blyth - also a distant cousin of Mr Johnson...

Why would Boris Johnson need an £800,000 loan?

Why would Boris Johnson need an £800,000 loan?
Jan 24,2023 1:51 pm

... Sam Blyth - a multimillionaire Canadian businessman and distant cousin of Mr Johnson - is reported to have raised the idea of acting as a guarantor for the loan...

Richard Sharp: Appointment of BBC chairman done correctly - government

Richard Sharp: Appointment of BBC chairman done correctly - government
Jan 22,2023 8:01 pm

... It says multimillionaire Canadian businessman Sam Blyth - a distant cousin of Mr Johnson - raised with Mr Sharp the idea of acting as Mr Johnson s guarantor for a loan...

Probe urged over claims BBC chair helped Johnson secure loan

Probe urged over claims BBC chair helped Johnson secure loan
Jan 21,2023 6:31 pm

... The Sunday Times reports Mr Sharp introduced multimillionaire Canadian businessman Sam Blyth - who had proposed to act as the then-PM s guarantor for the loan - to Simon Case, the then-cabinet secretary who was head of the civil service...

General election 2019: Animated tour in 10 stops

General election 2019: Animated tour in 10 stops
Feb 16,2020 9:13 am

... The third seat to declare, Blyth Valley, had been Labour for nearly 70 years and was predicted to stay that way...

Blyth Valley: A constituency that changed its mind

Blyth Valley: A constituency that changed its mind
Feb 16,2020 9:12 am

...Once, you would have got long odds on the first Conservative election win coming from Blyth Valley in Northumberland...

General election 2019: Animated tour in 10 stops

Feb 16,2020 9:12 am

Scroll to take a Guided Tour of the UK's results to find out how Boris Johnson gained the largest Conservative majority since the 1980s, while Labour took its lowest number of seats since 1935.

Find out how the UK voted Conservatives: 365 Labour: 203 SNP: 48 Lib Dems: 11 DUP: 8 Sinn Fein : 7 Plaid Cymru : 4 SDLP: 2 Green: 1 Alliance Party: 1 Scroll to find out how the UK voted Animation enabled

(1/10) The Conservatives won 365 seats, giving Boris Johnson a majority of 80. Their 44% share of the vote was the highest since Margaret Thatcher came to power in 1979. So how did this happen?

(2/10) Right at the beginning of The Night it was clear something unusual had happened. The third seat to declare, Blyth Valley, had been Labour for nearly 70 years and was predicted to stay that way. Labour lost Here by 712 votes.

Blyth Valley results Conservatives 43% Labour 41% Brexit 8% Lib Dems 5% Green 3%

(3/10) This story was repeated again and again, as Labour's " Red Wall" in the North crumbled. Labour's vote share reduced by 13% in the North East and 10% in Yorkshire & Humber . Many of these seats voted strongly to leave the EU.

(4/10) Many northern Conservative wins were due more to a reduced Labour vote than a large boost for the Tories. However, in Wakefield , which had been Labour since 1932, the Tories won a majority of over 3,000.

Wakefield results Conservatives 47% Labour 40% Brexit 6% Lib Dems 4% Yorkshire Party 2% Independent 1%

(5/10) By around 02:00 GMT the Conservatives started to win seats in Wales, taking six from Labour in total. Plaid Cymru held on to their four seats, but a Remain pact with The Greens and Liberal Democrats failed to create a Breakthrough .

(6/10) The Liberal Democrats had hoped to win back seats in The South West that they lost to the Tories in 2015. Despite increasing their share of the vote by 3%, the Lib Dems failed to win any new seats Here .

(7/10) Jo Swinson , the Liberal Democrat leader, narrowly lost her seat of East Dunbartonshire in Scotland to the Scottish National Party , who had a Good Night .

East Dunbartonshire results SNP 37% Lib Dems 37% Conservatives 14% Labour 9% Green 2% Independent 0%

(8/10) The SNP won 14 seats overall, from the Liberal Democrats , Tories and Labour. They now have 48 seats, up 13 from 2017 and only slightly down from their 2015 Landslide .

(9/10) In Northern Ireland the DUP, who had backed the Conservatives since 2017, lost two of their seats, including their Westminster leader Nigel Dodds . The SDLP picked up two and The Alliance Party won One .

(10/10) Across the UK Labour suffered 60 losses. Their only gain was Putney in London, but Kensington, which they'd won in 2017, went back to the Conservatives. Despite breaking even in London, a largely Remain voting area, Labour's vote share still declined by 6%.

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By Will Dahlgreen, Irene de La Torre Arenas and Becky Rush .



Source of news: bbc.com

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