Jennifer Helen Jones,Baroness Jones of Moulsecoomb,is a British politician who served as Deputy Mayor of London from 2003 to 2004. A member of the Green Party of England and Wales,she was until September 2019 the sole Green Party member in the House of Lords.
Angela Evans Smith,Baroness Smith of Basildon is a British politician and life peer serving as Leader of the House of Lords and Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal since 2024. A member of the Labour and Co-operative Parties,she was Member of Parliament (MP) for Basildon from 1997 to 2010.
Mary Teresa Goudie,Baroness Goudie is a British politician and life peer,currently sitting for the Labour Party. In 1998,she was made a life peer as Baroness Goudie,of Roundwood in the London Borough of Brent. She is on the board of Vital Voices and is involved in promoting gender equity with both the G8 and G20.
Manzila Pola Uddin,Baroness Uddin is a British non-affiliated life peer and community activist of Bangladeshi descent. In 2009 she was included on The Guardian's Muslim Women Power List for Britain. She previously sat for Labour when,in 2012,Uddin was required to repay £125,349,the largest amount in the United Kingdom parliamentary expenses scandal.
Angela Theodora Billingham,Baroness Billingham is a British Labour politician.
Local government elections took place in London,and some other parts of the United Kingdom on Thursday 4 May 2006. Polling stations were open between 7am and 10pm.
Lewisham London Borough Council is the local authority for the London Borough of Lewisham,in London,United Kingdom. Elections are held every four years using a plurality bloc vote electoral system for the councillors and the supplementary vote electoral system for the elected mayor.
Rachel Trixie Anne Gardner,Baroness Gardner of Parkes,was an Australian-born British dentist and Conservative member of the House of Lords,in which she served for over 40 years. She was the first Australian woman to have been elevated to the peerage,and was the senior life peer in the House of Lords at the time of her death.
Janet Anne Royall,Baroness Royall of Blaisdon,,is a British Labour Co-operative Party politician. She was Leader of the House of Lords and Lord President of the Council. She is the principal of Somerville College,Oxford.
Meral Hussein Ece,Baroness Hussein-Ece,is a British Liberal Democrat member of the House of Lords. She is the first woman of Turkish Cypriot origin to be a member of either house of Parliament after she was appointed a Liberal Democrat working peer on 28 May 2010. She was the Liberal Democrat Spokeswoman for Equalities from 2015 until 2016,under leader Tim Farron.
Roy Francis Kennedy,Baron Kennedy of Southwark,is a British politician and life peer serving as Chief Whip of the House of Lords since 2024. He is a member of the Labour and Co-operative Parties.
Lewisham London Borough Council,also known as Lewisham Council,is the local authority for the London Borough of Lewisham in Greater London,England. It is a London borough council,one of 32 in London. The council has been under Labour majority control since 2010. It has been led by a directly elected mayor since 2002. The council meets at Lewisham Town Hall in the Catford area of the borough.
Ed Miliband became Leader of the Labour Party and Leader of the Opposition upon being elected to the former post on 25 September 2010. The election was triggered by Gordon Brown's resignation following the party's fall from power at the 2010 general election,which yielded a Conservative–Liberal Democrat Coalition. Miliband appointed his first Shadow Cabinet in October 2010,following the Labour Party Shadow Cabinet elections. These elections were the last such elections before they were abolished in 2011.
Anna Mary Healy,Baroness Healy of Primrose Hill is a British Labour politician and member of the House of Lords.
Natalie Jessica Evans,Baroness Evans of Bowes Park,,is a British politician and member of the House of Lords. A member of the Conservative Party,she was made a life peer in 2014 and from 2016 to 2022 was Leader of the House of Lords. She was the first Leader of the House of Lords to serve under two different prime ministers since Lord Shepherd in 1974,and the longest serving Lords leader since 1951.
Harriet Harman's second Shadow Cabinet was formed by Harriet Harman in 2015 during her second period as Acting Leader of the Labour Party. She assumed this role after Ed Miliband resigned as party leader and announced she would continue until a new leader was elected on 12 September 2015. Miliband's resignation followed the party's defeat at the 2015 general election.
The Climate and Nature Bill,formerly promoted as the Climate and Ecology Bill,is a private member's bill before the Parliament of the United Kingdom aimed at tackling the climate crisis and environmental disaster.
Sharon Jane Taylor,Baroness Taylor of Stevenage,,is a British politician and life peer who has served as a Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State in the Ministry of Housing,Communities and Local Government and a Baroness-in-Waiting since July 2024. She was a member of Stevenage Borough Council in Hertfordshire from 1997 to 2024,and served as the leader of the council from 2006 to 2022.
