Alex Chalk

Alex Chalk, 2019

Alexander John Gervase Chalk, KC (* 8. August 1976 in London) ist ein britischer Politiker und war von April 2023 bis Juli 2024 Lordkanzler sowie Justizminister des Vereinigten Königreichs. Am 21. April 2023 übernahm er nach dem Rücktritt von Dominic Raab beider Ämter,[1] die er bis zur britischen Unterhauswahl 2024 innehatte. 2015 wurde er zum Abgeordneten von Cheltenham gewählt. Zuvor war Chalk Generalstaatsanwalt für England und Wales, Staatsminister für Gefängnisse und Bewährung sowie parlamentarischer Unterstaatssekretär für Justiz. Im Oktober 2022 wurde Chalk zum Staatsminister für Verteidigungsbeschaffung im Verteidigungsministerium ernannt.

Einzelnachweise

  1. Reuters: UK lawmaker Alex Chalk replaces Raab as justice minister. In: Reuters. 21. April 2023 (reuters.com [abgerufen am 23. April 2023]).

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Royal Coat of Arms of the United Kingdom (HM Government).svg
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Royal Coat of Arms of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland in the style used by the Government of Queen Elizabeth II from 1952 to 2022 (as used in all places except Scotland).
Quarterly, First and Fourth Gules three lions passant guardant in pale Or armed and langued Azure (for England), Second quarter Or a lion rampant within a double tressure flory counter-flory Gules (for Scotland), Third quarter Azure a harp Or stringed Argent (for Ireland), the whole surrounded by the Garter; for a Crest, the imperial crown Proper; for Supporters, dexter a lion rampant guardant Or crowned as the Crest, sinister a unicorn Argent armed, crined and unguled Proper, gorged with a coronet Or composed of crosses patée and fleurs de lys a chain affixed thereto passing between the forelegs and reflexed over the back also Or; Motto 'Dieu et mon Droit’ ('God and my Right') below the shield.
  • PINCHES, J.H & R.V., The Royal Heraldry of England, 1974, Heraldry Today.
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Official portrait of Alex Chalk MP
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Royal Coat of Arms of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland in the style used by the Government of Queen Elizabeth II from 1952 to 2022 (as used in all places except Scotland).
Quarterly, First and Fourth Gules three lions passant guardant in pale Or armed and langued Azure (for England), Second quarter Or a lion rampant within a double tressure flory counter-flory Gules (for Scotland), Third quarter Azure a harp Or stringed Argent (for Ireland), the whole surrounded by the Garter; for a Crest, the imperial crown Proper; for Supporters, dexter a lion rampant guardant Or crowned as the Crest, sinister a unicorn Argent armed, crined and unguled Proper, gorged with a coronet Or composed of crosses patée and fleurs de lys a chain affixed thereto passing between the forelegs and reflexed over the back also Or; Motto 'Dieu et mon Droit’ ('God and my Right') below the shield.
  • PINCHES, J.H & R.V., The Royal Heraldry of England, 1974, Heraldry Today.