Charlotte Jean Scott Atkins is a British Labour Party politician who was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Staffordshire Moorlands from 1997 until 2010.
Sir Wayne David is a Welsh politician who served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Caerphilly from 2001 to 2024. A member of the Labour Party,he was Leader of the European Parliamentary Labour Party from 1994 to 1998. As a Member of the European Parliament,he represented South Wales from 1989 to 1994 and South Wales Central from 1994 to 1999.
Joseph William Ashton was a British Labour Party politician who was the MP for Bassetlaw from 1968 to 2001. He took his seat in by-election,winning with a majority of just 1.72%;in his last election before retiring,he won it by a majority of 36.4%.
Graham Eric Stringer is a British Labour politician who served as Member of Parliament for Blackley and Broughton,previously Manchester Blackley,from 1997 until 2024. He was Leader of Manchester City Council from 1984 to 1996 and also served as chair of Manchester Airport from 1996 to 1997.
Robert Andrew Stunell,Baron Stunell,was a British Liberal Democrat politician who served as Member of Parliament for Hazel Grove from 1997 until he stood down in 2015,and then a member of the House of Lords from 2015.
Michael Thomas Hall is a British Labour Party politician who was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Weaver Vale from 1997 to 2010.
Blackley is an area of Manchester,England. Historically in Lancashire,it is approximately 5 miles (8.0 km) north of Manchester city centre,on the River Irk.
Ashton-under-Lyne is a constituency in Greater Manchester that was created in 1832. It has been represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament by Angela Rayner of the Labour Party since 2015. Rayner currently serves as Deputy Prime Minister and Secretary of State for Levelling Up,Housing and Communities in the cabinet of Keir Starmer,and was elected as Deputy Leader of the Labour Party in 2020.
Manchester Central is a parliamentary constituency in Greater Manchester created in 1974. The seat has been represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom since 2012 by Lucy Powell of the Labour Party and Co-operative Party. Powell currently serves as Leader of the House of Commons and Lord President of the Council.
Manchester Gorton was a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament. It was the safest Labour seat in Greater Manchester by numerical majority and one of the safest in the country.
Andrew John Gwynne is a British Labour politician who served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Denton and Reddish from 2005 until the seat was abolished in 2024,and as the first MP for the new Gorton and Denton constituency since 2024. He was Shadow Minister for Social Care from 2023 to the 2024 election. He is the son of the late broadcaster and pundit John Gwynne.
Mohammed Afzal Khan,is a British Labour Party politician who served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Manchester Gorton from 2017 until 2024.
The City of Manchester forms part of the metropolitan county of Greater Manchester,which had its county council abolished in 1986. Manchester consists of several districts,but these districts do not represent a tier of government.
On 13 January 2011,a by-election was held for the UK House of Commons constituency of Oldham East and Saddleworth. Labour Party candidate Debbie Abrahams held the seat for her party with an increased majority over the Liberal Democrats,succeeding Phil Woolas,whose victory in the 2010 general election had been declared void because he had knowingly made false statements attacking his Liberal Democrat opponent's personal character.
Michael Joseph Patrick Kane is a British Labour politician who has served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Wythenshawe and Sale East since 2014.
James Ignatius O'Rourke McMahon is a British politician who has served as a Minister of State in the Department for Levelling Up,Housing and Communities since July 2024. A member of the Labour and Co-operative parties,he has served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Oldham West and Royton since 2015 and as the Chair of the Co-operative Party since 2020.
Angela Rayner is a British politician who has served as Deputy Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and Secretary of State for Housing,Communities and Local Government since July 2024. She has been Deputy Leader of the Labour Party since 2020 and Member of Parliament (MP) for Ashton-under-Lyne since 2015. Ideologically she identifies as a socialist and as being part of Labour's soft left,and has made a political point of her working-class roots.
Elizabeth Anne McInnes is a British politician who served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Heywood and Middleton from 2014 to 2019. A member of the Labour Party,she was a Shadow Minister for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs from 2016 to 2019 and Communities and Local Government from 2015 to 2016.
Seema Louise Ghiassi Kennedy is a British Conservative Party politician who served as a Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State at both the Department of Health and Social Care and the Home Office in 2019. She was the Member of Parliament (MP) for South Ribble in Lancashire from 2015 to 2019,and also served as the Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Prime Minister from 2017 to 2019. She was the first female MP of Iranian heritage to take a seat in the House of Commons.
