Nigel Keith Anthony Standish Vaz is a British politician who served as the Labour Party Member of Parliament (MP) for Leicester East for 32 years,from 1987 to 2019. He is the UK Parliament's longest-serving British Asian MP.
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.
Sir Gregory Knight is a British politician,author and musician. He served as the Conservative MP for East Yorkshire from 2001 to 2024,having previously served as the MP for Derby North from 1983 to 1997. He also served as a minister in the governments of Margaret Thatcher,John Major and David Cameron.
Nigel Martin Evans is a former British Conservative Party politician who served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Ribble Valley in Lancashire from 1992 until 2024. 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.
Laurence Anthony Robertson is a British politician who served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Tewkesbury from 1997 to 2024. A member of the Conservative Party,he chaired the Northern Ireland Affairs Committee for seven years,from 2010 to 2017.
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 from 2024 by Shockat Adam.
Sir Jeremy Paul Wright is a British lawyer and politician who served as Attorney General for England and Wales from 2014 to 2018 and as Secretary of State for Digital,Culture,Media and Sport from 2018 to 2019. A member of the Conservative Party,he has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Kenilworth and Southam,previously Rugby and Kenilworth,since the 2005 general election and has served as Shadow Attorney General since July 2024.
Adam Mensah Osei Afriyie is a British politician who served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Windsor from 2005 to 2024. He is a member of the Conservative Party.
Rosalind Elizabeth Adriana Savage MBE FRGS MP,known as Roz Savage,is an English ocean rower,environmental advocate,writer,speaker and politician. She was elected as a Liberal Democrat MP for the new South Cotswolds constituency at the 2024 general election.
Janice "Jan" Meek FRGS is a British adventurer and ocean rower. In 1997,she took part in the first Atlantic Rowing Race,the Port St. Charles Barbados Atlantic Rowing Race. Meek successfully crossed the Atlantic Ocean unsupported in a 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.
Andrew James Bridgen is a former British politician who served as Member of Parliament (MP) for North West Leicestershire from 2010 until 2024. 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 claiming that a cardiologist told him it constitutes "the biggest crime against humanity since the Holocaust". He joined the Reclaim Party in May 2023 but resigned from the party in December 2023.
Robert Henry Halfon is a British Conservative Party politician and was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Harlow from 2010 to 2024.
Mark Julian Francis Pawsey is a British politician who served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Rugby from the 2010 general election until stepping down at the 2024 general election. He is a member of the Conservative Party.
Jonathan Michael Graham Ashworth is a British former Labour and Co-op politician who was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Leicester South from 2011 to 2024. He had served as Shadow Paymaster General from September 2023. Having lost his seat at the 2024 general election,he was appointed chief executive of the Labour Together thinktank.
Timothy Colin Smith is an Australian former politician,who served as the member for Kew from 2014 to 2022 in the Victorian Legislative Assembly. He is a member of the Liberal Party.
Craig Paul Tracey is a British Conservative Party politician,who was the Member of Parliament (MP) for North Warwickshire from 2015 until his defeat in 2024,and Deputy Chairman of the Conservative Party since February 2024. 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.
Andrew John Carter JP is a British Conservative Party politician who was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Warrington South from 2019 to 2024.
