Nigel Keith Anthony Standish Vaz is a British Labour Party politician who served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Leicester East for 32 years,from 1987 to 2019. He was the British Parliament's longest-serving British Asian MP.
John Selwyn Gummer,Baron Deben,is a British Conservative Party politician,formerly the Member of Parliament (MP) for Suffolk Coastal and now a member of the House of Lords. He was Conservative Party Chairman from 1983 to 1985 and held various government posts including Secretary of State for the Environment from 1993 to 1997.
Gregory Leonard George Barker,Baron Barker of Battle,is a British Conservative Party politician and life peer. In May 2010 he was appointed Minister of State for Energy and Climate Change,a role in which he served until 2014. At the following year's general election he stood down as MP for Bexhill and Battle and was appointed to the House of Lords.
James Dolan Cunningham is a Labour Party politician in the United Kingdom. He served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Coventry South from 1992 to 2019.
Nigel Martin Evans is a British politician serving as the Member of Parliament (MP) for the Ribble Valley constituency in Lancashire since 1992. A member of the Conservative Party,he was Joint Executive Secretary of the 1922 Committee from 2017 to 2019. He served as First Deputy Chairman of Ways and Means,one of the Speaker's three deputies,from 2010 to 2013. He was elected as Second Deputy Chairman of Ways and Means in 2020.
Michael O'Brien KC is a British lawyer and former Labour Party politician who was Member of Parliament (MP) for North Warwickshire from 1992 to 2010,serving in a number of ministerial posts.
A by-election was held for the United Kingdom Parliament seat of Leicester South on 15 July 2004. It was triggered by the death of Labour Party Member of Parliament (MP) Jim Marshall,who died on 27 May 2004,shortly before the local and European elections in June. The by-election was won by Parmjit Singh Gill of the Liberal Democrats,over-turning a Labour majority of 13,243 votes at the 2001 general election.
Sir Peter Alfred Soulsby is a British Labour Party politician serving as Mayor of Leicester since 2011. He was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Leicester South from 2005 until he resigned his seat in April 2011,in order to contest the new post of mayor. He served as Leader of Leicester City Council from 1981 to 1994 and from 1996 to 1999.
Leicester South is a constituency,recreated in 1974,represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2011 by Jonathan Ashworth of the Labour Co-op Party. A previous version of the seat existed between 1918 and 1950. Except for a 2004 by-election when it was won by the Liberal Democrats,Leicester South has been held by the Labour Party since 1987.
James Patrick Dowd is a former British Labour Party politician,who was a Member of Parliament (MP) from 1992 to 2017,first for Lewisham West and following 2010 for Lewisham West and Penge. He stood down at the 2017 general election,following the announcement of Prime Minister Theresa May's snap election in June 2017.
North Warwickshire is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2015 by Craig Tracey,a Conservative.
Jamieson Ronald "Jamie" Reed is a British former politician who served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Copeland from 2005 to 2017. A member of the Labour Party,he was a Shadow Environment,Food and Rural Affairs Minister from 2010 to 2011 and a Shadow Health Minister from 2011 to 2015.
Sir James Philip Duddridge,is a British politician and former banker. A member of the Conservative Party,he has served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Rochford and Southend East since 2005. Duddridge previously held several ministerial positions under prime ministers David Cameron,Boris Johnson and Liz Truss.
Janice "Jan" Meek FRGS is a British adventurer and ocean rower. In 1997 she took part in the first ever Atlantic Rowing Race,the Port St Charles Barbados Atlantic Rowing Race. Meek successfully crossed the Atlantic Ocean unsupported in 23-foot (7.0 m) wooden rowing boat in 101 days with her son Daniel Byles. She currently holds four Guinness World Records.
Richard (Rich) Profit is an English mountaineer,sailor,a former British Army officer and polar adventurer. In 2007 he took part in the Polar Race with the mother and son pair Janice Meek and Daniel Byles,successfully walking and skiing 350 nautical miles from Resolute,Nunavut to the Magnetic North Pole in 20 days and 5 hours,helping to set two Guinness World Records. He is married with two sons.
Stephen Paul Barclay is a British politician who has served as Secretary of State for Health and Social Care since October 2022 under Rishi Sunak,having previously held the position from July to September 2022 under Boris Johnson. He served as Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union from 2018 to 2020,Chief Secretary to the Treasury from 2020 to 2021,Minister for the Cabinet Office and Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster from 2021 to 2022,and Downing Street Chief of Staff from February to July 2022. A member of the Conservative Party,he has been Member of Parliament (MP) for North East Cambridgeshire since 2010.
Andrew James Bridgen is a British politician and businessman who has served as Member of Parliament (MP) for North West Leicestershire since 2010. He was a member of the Conservative Party until his expulsion in April 2023,having had the whip suspended in January after criticising the efficacy of COVID-19 vaccines and comparing their implementation to the Holocaust. He is a member of the Reclaim Party.
Mark Julian Francis Pawsey is a British politician who has served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Rugby since the 2010 general election. He is a member of the Conservative Party.
Jonathan Michael Graham Ashworth is a British politician serving as Shadow Secretary of State for Work and Pensions since 2021. A member of the Labour and Co-operative parties,he has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Leicester South since 2011.
Craig Paul Tracey is a British Conservative Party politician,who has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for North Warwickshire since his election in 2015. Originally from the North East,Tracey settled in North Warwickshire in 1997. After serving as a parish councillor he was selected as the Conservative Party's parliamentary candidate for North Warwickshire in 2014. He unexpectedly increased the Conservative majority in the constituency despite not being the favourite to win. A former member of the Business,Innovation and Skills Select Committee,Tracey has served as co-chair of the All Party Parliamentary Group for Insurance and Financial Services since July 2016.
