Robert Finlayson "Robin" Cook was a British Labour Party politician who served as a Member of Parliament (MP) from 1974 until his death in 2005 and served in the Cabinet as Foreign Secretary from 1997 until 2001 when he was replaced by Jack Straw. He then served as Leader of the House of Commons from 2001 until 2003.
Charles Leslie Falconer,Baron Falconer of Thoroton,is a British Labour peer and barrister who served as Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State for Justice under Prime Minister Tony Blair from 2003 to 2007.
William Thomas Rodgers,Baron Rodgers of Quarry Bank,,is a British politician and life peer. As a Labour Party member of Parliament,he served as Secretary of State for Transport from 1976 to 1979,and was one of the "Gang of Four" of senior Labour politicians who defected to form the Social Democratic Party (SDP). He subsequently helped to lead the SDP into the merger that formed the Liberal Democrats in 1988,and later served as the party's leader in the House of Lords between 1997 and 2001.
Michael Andrew Foster Jude Kerr,13th Marquess of Lothian,Baron Kerr of Monteviot,,commonly known as Michael Ancram,is a Scottish politician and peer who served as Deputy Leader of the Conservative Party from 2001 to 2005. He was formerly styled Earl of Ancram until he inherited the marquessate in 2004.
John Anderson Cunningham,Baron Cunningham of Felling,PC,DL is a British politician who was a Labour Member of Parliament for over 30 years,serving for Whitehaven from 1970 to 1983 and then Copeland until the 2005 general election,and had served in the Cabinet of Tony Blair.
Derek Foster,Baron Foster of Bishop Auckland,was a British Labour politician who served as Member of Parliament for Bishop Auckland,in County Durham,from 1979 to 2005.
Douglas Martin Hogg,3rd Viscount Hailsham,Baron Hailsham of Kettlethorpe,is a British politician and barrister. A member of the Conservative Party,he served in John Major’s second government as Minister of Agriculture,Fisheries and Food from 1995 to 1997,and was a Member of Parliament (MP) from 1979 to 2010.
Winifred Ann Taylor,Baroness Taylor of Bolton,is a British politician and life peer who served in the Cabinet of the United Kingdom from 1997 to 2001. A member of the Labour Party,she was Member of Parliament (MP) for Bolton West from 1974 to 1983,and Dewsbury from 1987 to 2005.
Sir Thomas Anthony Cunningham is a British politician who served as member of parliament (MP) for Workington from 2001 to 2015. A member of the Labour Party,he was Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for Cumbria and Lancashire North from 1994 to 1999.
Alastair Robertson Goodlad,Baron Goodlad,,is a British politician who served as Chief Whip of the parliamentary Conservative Party from 1995 to 1997,and British High Commissioner to Australia from 2000 to 2005. He was Member of Parliament (MP) for Northwich and later for Eddisbury from 1974 to 1999. Goodlad sat in the House of Lords as a life peer from 2005 to 2024.
John Healey is a British politician serving as Shadow Secretary of State for Defence since 2020. He previously served in Prime Minister Tony Blair's cabinet as Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Adult Skills from 1997 to 2001,as Economic Secretary to the Treasury from 2002 to 2005,Financial Secretary to the Treasury from 2005 to 2007,and under Gordon Brown's cabinet as Minister of State for Local Government from 2007 to 2009 and as Minister of State for Housing and Planning from 2009 to 2010. A member of the Labour Party,Healey has served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Wentworth and Dearne,formerly Wentworth,since 1997.
Eric Anthony Martlew is a British Labour Party politician who served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Carlisle from 1987 to 2010.
Richard James Baker is a Scottish Labour politician and former member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) for the North East Scotland region.
In British politics,a Lib–Lab pact is a working arrangement between the Liberal Democrats and the Labour Party.
David Wright Miliband is the president and chief executive officer (CEO) of the International Rescue Committee and a British Labour Party former politician. He was the Foreign Secretary from 2007 to 2010 and the Member of Parliament (MP) for South Shields in North East England from 2001 to 2013. He and his brother,Ed,were the first siblings to sit in the Cabinet simultaneously since Lord Edward and Oliver Stanley in 1938. He was a candidate for Labour Party leadership in 2010,following the departure of Gordon Brown,but was defeated by his brother and subsequently left politics.
John Matthew Patrick Hutton,Baron Hutton of Furness,is a British politician who served in several offices in the Cabinet of the United Kingdom. He was Work and Pensions Secretary from 2005 to 2007,Business Secretary from 2007 to 2008,and Defence Secretary from 2008 to 2009. A member of the Labour Party,Hutton served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Barrow and Furness from 1992 to 2010.
The Commons members of the Parliamentary Labour Party (PLP) elected 19 members of the Shadow Cabinet from among their number in 2010. This follows the Labour Party's defeat at the 2010 general election,after which the party formed the Official Opposition in the United Kingdom.
The Colne Valley by-election was a Parliamentary by-election held on 18 July 1907. The constituency returned one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons of the United Kingdom,elected by the first past the post voting system.
The 2001 Dissolution Honours List was gazetted on 2 June 2001 prior to the General Election of the same year by the Prime Minister,Tony Blair.
The third Blair ministry lasted from May 2005 to June 2007. The election on 5 May 2005 saw Labour win a historic third successive term in power,though their majority now stood at 66 seats –compared to 167 four years earlier –and they failed to gain any new seats. Blair had already declared that the new term in parliament would be his last.
