Great Offices of State simultaneously. Following the resignation of The Earl of Derby in 1868, Benjamin Disraeli became the first person of an ethnic minority to attain one of the Great Offices of State and the first person of Jewish heritage to become Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. Malcolm Rifkind and David Miliband later held the position of Foreign Secretary, with Michael Howard and Leon Brittan serving as Home Secretary and Nigel Lawson as Chancellor of the Exchequer. After Amber Rudd's resignation following the Windrush scandal, Sajid Javid became the first Muslim to hold the position of one of the Great Offices of
Politics of British Columbia conjunction with the 2009 general election but it also failed, garnering just over 39% of voter support. Politics of British Columbia The Politics of British Columbia involves not only the governance of British Columbia, Canada, and the various political factions that have held or vied for legislative power, but also a number of experiments or attempts at political and electoral reform. Prior to 1903, there were no political parties in British Columbia, other than at the federal level. Sir Richard McBride was the first Premier of British Columbia to declare a party affiliation (Conservative Party) and institute conventional party/caucus politics.