Donald Michael Ellison Foster,Baron Foster of Bath,is a British politician and life peer who served as Government Deputy Chief Whip and Comptroller of the Household from 2013 to 2015. A member of the Liberal Democrats,he was Member of Parliament (MP) for Bath from 1992 to 2015.
Alan James Beith,Baron Beith,is a British Liberal Democrat politician who represented Berwick-upon-Tweed as its Member of Parliament (MP) from 1973 to 2015.
Adam Paterson Ingram is a British Labour Party politician,who was the Member of Parliament (MP) for East Kilbride,Strathaven and Lesmahagow from 1987 to 2010.
Malcolm Gray Bruce,Baron Bruce of Bennachie,is a British Liberal Democrat politician.
John Patrick Aubone Burnett,Baron Burnett is a British Liberal Democrat politician,a member of the House of Lords,and was a Member of Parliament for Torridge and West Devon between 1997 and 2005 general elections.
Brian Joseph Michael Cotter,Baron Cotter,was a British Liberal Democrat politician. He was Member of Parliament for Weston-super-Mare from 1997 to 2005,and subsequently a member of the House of Lords from 2006 until his death.
Nigel David Jones,Baron Jones of Cheltenham was a British Liberal Democrat politician who served as a Member of Parliament (MP) from 1992 to 2005,and as a member of the House of Lords from 2005 until his death in 2022.
Thomas McLaughlin McAvoy,Baron McAvoy,was a British Labour and Co-operative politician serving as a life peer in the House of Lords from 2010 until his death in 2024. He served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Glasgow Rutherglen from 1987 to 2005,and Rutherglen and Hamilton West from 2005 to 2010.
Matthew Owen John Taylor,Baron Taylor of Goss Moor is a British politician who has been a life peer in the House of Lords since 2010. A member of the Liberal Democrats,he previously served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Truro and St Austell in Cornwall from 1987 until he stood down at the 2010 general election. He was granted a life peerage and so became a member of the House of Lords on 16 July 2010.
Paul Archer Tyler,Baron Tyler,is a Liberal Democrat politician in the United Kingdom. He was a Member of Parliament (MP) from February to October 1974 and from 1992 to 2005,and sat in the House of Lords as a life peer until October 2021.
James Robert Wallace,Baron Wallace of Tankerness,is a Scottish politician serving as a Liberal Democrat life peer in the British House of Lords since 2007 and Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland from 2021 to 2022. He served as the Deputy First Minister of Scotland from 1999 to 2005,and during that time he served twice as acting First Minister,in 2000,in the aftermath of Donald Dewar's death and in 2001,following Henry McLeish's resignation. He was formerly Leader of the Scottish Liberal Democrats from 1992 to 2005 and Liberal Democrats in the House of Lords from 2013 to 2016.
Timothy John Robert Kirkhope,Baron Kirkhope of Harrogate is a British lawyer and politician who previously served as Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for Yorkshire and the Humber for the Conservative Party. After serving for ten years as Member of Parliament (MP) for Leeds North East,he was first elected to the European Parliament in 1999. Between December 2004 and November 2010 he was leader of the Conservative delegation for a total of six years. He was the chairman of the Conservative Friends of Israel's Europe grouping,the European Conservatives Spokesman on Justice and Home Affairs,and a member of the European Parliament's U.S Delegation. In 2016,he was created a life peer.
Cranhill is an inner city district and housing scheme in the north east of Glasgow,Scotland. Cranhill was developed from public funding in the early 1950s and was originally,chiefly composed of four-storey tenement blocks surrounding a patch of grassland,which became Cranhill Park. Later development saw the building of three tower blocks,surrounded by rows of terraced maisonettes. In more recent years,a number of semi-detached and detached homes have been built. The area also hosts some shops,two primary schools and nurseries,a community centre and the Cranhill water tower.
John Francis Hodgess Roper,Baron Roper PC was a British Liberal Democrat politician.
In the 2006 Liberal Democrats leadership election,Sir Menzies Campbell was elected to succeed Charles Kennedy as Leader of the Liberal Democrats,the third-largest political party in the United Kingdom.
George Yull Mackie,Baron Mackie of Benshie was a British Liberal and Liberal Democrat politician.
Trevor Arthur Smith,Baron Smith of Clifton,was a British politician,academic and member of the House of Lords. He was the Liberal Democrat spokesman in the House on Northern Ireland and constitutional affairs.
David Trevor Shutt,Baron Shutt of Greetland,was a British Liberal Democrat politician who served as Captain of the Yeomen of the Guard and Deputy Chief Whip in the House of Lords between May 2010 and May 2012.
Benjamin Russell Mackintosh Stoneham,Baron Stoneham of Droxford is a British peer,journalist,and Liberal Democrat politician. He is currently the Liberal Democrat Chief Whip in the House of Lords,having been elected to that position in October 2016.
On 3 September 2019,the British Conservative Party withdrew the whip from 21 of its MPs who had supported an emergency motion to allow the House of Commons to undertake proceedings on the European Union (Withdrawal) Bill on 4 September. In the hours after the vote,the Chief Whip Mark Spencer informed the rebel MPs that they were no longer entitled to sit as Conservatives. This led to the loss of the Conservative/DUP majority in the Commons.
