August Carew-Grey, The Baron Calder
The Right Honourable The Baron Calder CB CMG LVO CM MP LLB | |
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 Portrait commissioned by the Library of Parliament Hill. | |
| Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for the Home Office | |
| Assumed office 23 May 2024 | |
| Prime Minister | The Viscount Sidmouth |
Augustus Edward Xeres Carew-Grey, The Baron Calder CB CMG LVO CM MP LLB (joined 4 June 2022), is a statesman, parliamentarian, and Unionist politician who currently serves as the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for the Home Office, Chairman of the Unionist Party, and Member of Parliament for County Clare. He previously served as Prime Minister of Great Britain, First Secretary of State, and in a variety of high-ranking Cabinet positions. He is also a former Chief of the Air Staff.
First joining the region in 2022 as the result of a regional merger with the Empire of Great Britain and recieving the peerage of the Earldom of Stirling, August Stuart-Windsor, and later known as August Lleyton until his adoption into the Carew-Grey Family, became one of the most prominent and controversial politicians in the regions history. Joining the British Royalist Party and serving in the Cabinets of both the First Premiership of the Duke of Somerset and then as Foreign Secretary during the Premiership of the Baron Exeter, he became party leader of the rebranded Liberal Progressive Party, securing a majority at the April 2023 General Election. However, he failed the Address-in-Reply (the only person to do so) and ultimately with no successor chosen a new election was called: Lleyton remained in Parliament throughout the term and remained with the LPP as it merged with the British Constitutionalist Party, serving once again as Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs and as First Secretary of State during the Premiership of the Duchess of Edinburgh. He later left the BCP to join the Independent Slate alongside other notable political figures such as William Somerset, 2nd Viscount Douglas and Elio Somerset, 1st Viscount Salisbury. With the former, he eventually founded the Heron Party and for the second term, secured a 3/5 Parliamentary majority at the September 2023 General Election. This time, Lleyton was confirmed during the Address-in-Reply and served as the 26th Prime Minister of Great Britain. Following the end of the term he found himself out of Parliament for an entire session since the beginning of 2023, losing his seat to Liberal Democrat candidate Owain Forsyte. However, he would return for the 30th Session of Parliament as a backbench MP, before resigning and ultimately leaving the region. Upon his return to the region in May 2023, he quickly joined the Unionist Party and became the MP for County Clare, as well as serving as Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for the Home Office. He is the proposed First Secretary of State in the Cabinet of the Baroness Wilton, his mother, provided the Unionist secure a majority at the July 2024 General Election.