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.
The Social Market Foundation (SMF) is an independent British political public policy think-tank based in Westminster,London. It is one of the 'Top 12 Think Tanks in Britain' and was named 'UK Think Tank of the Year' by Prospect in 2012. Its purpose is to "advance the education of the public in the economic,social and political sciences" and to "champion ideas that marry a pro-market orientation with concern for social justice". Policy ideas are based on the concept of the social market economy.
Meghnad Jagdishchandra Desai,Baron Desai is an Indian-born naturalised British economist and former Labour politician. He stood unsuccessfully for the position of Lord Speaker in the House of Lords in 2011. He has been awarded the Padma Bhushan,the third highest civilian award in the Republic of India,in 2008. He is a Professor Emeritus of the London School of Economics.
Robert Jacob Alexander Skidelsky,Baron Skidelsky,is a British economic historian. He is the author of a three-volume,award-winning biography of British economist John Maynard Keynes (1883–1946). Skidelsky read history at Jesus College,Oxford,and is Emeritus Professor of Political Economy at the University of Warwick,England.
John Ambrose Cope,Baron Cope of Berkeley,PC is a Conservative Party politician in the United Kingdom.
Arthur William James Anthony Greenwood,Baron Greenwood of Rossendale,was a prominent British Labour Party politician in the 1950s and 1960s.
John Edward Tomlinson,Baron Tomlinson was a British Labour Co-operative politician. He served as a life peer in the House of Lords from 1998 until his death,and had previously been a Member of Parliament from 1974 to 1979,and a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) from 1984 to 1999.
John Robert Louis Lee,Baron Lee of Trafford,DL is a British Liberal Democrat politician,who has sat as a life peer since 2006.
Thomas Murray Elder,Baron Elder,was a British Labour politician and member of the House of Lords. A childhood friend of Gordon Brown,he served as the general secretary of the Scottish Labour Party,the chief of staff to Labour leader John Smith,and a special adviser to Donald Dewar at the Scottish Office.
Bernard Donoughue,Baron Donoughue is a British Labour Party politician,academic,businessman and author.
Godfrey Elton,1st Baron Elton,was a British historian,academic and Labour Party politician. Having served in the British Army during the First World War,he was elected a fellow of The Queen's College,Oxford in 1919 and appointed a lecturer in modern history by the University of Oxford. In 1934,he entered the House of Lords,having been made a peer by Ramsay MacDonald. He stepped down from his university posts in 1939 and became secretary of the Rhodes Trust.
Andrew Adonis,Baron Adonis,is a British Labour Party politician and journalist who served in HM Government for five years in the Blair ministry and the Brown ministry.
David Edward Lea,Baron Lea of Crondall,OBE is a British former trade unionist and Labour politician.
Roger John Liddle,Baron Liddle is a British political adviser and consultant who is principally known for being Special Adviser on European matters to the former Prime Minister Tony Blair,and President of the European Commission,JoséManuel Barroso. He also worked together with Peter Mandelson on books outlining the political philosophy of the Labour Party under Blair's leadership. He is the co-chair of the international think tank Policy Network and was Pro-Chancellor of the University of Lancaster until 2020.
Parry Andrew Mitchell,Baron Mitchell is a British businessman and Labour member of the House of Lords. On 10 May 2000,Mitchell was created a life peer as Baron Mitchell,of Hampstead in the London Borough of Camden,and introduced in the House of Lords on 24 May 2000. He sat on the Labour benches until he resigned from the party in September 2016. He rejoined the party in June 2020.
Geoffrey Robert James Borwick,5th Baron Borwick,is a British businessman,hereditary peer and member of the House of Lords.
Stewart Martin Wood,Baron Wood of Anfield is a Labour life peer in the House of Lords. He is currently a Visiting Fellow at the Blavatnik School of Government at the University of Oxford and a Senior Adviser to policy,economics and public affairs firm Bradshaw Advisory.
John Henry Harris,Baron Harris of Greenwich,was an English journalist,political aide and politician. After serving as a local councillor and political advisor and aide to a number of Labour politicians including Roy Jenkins,he was created a life peer in order to become Minister of State for Home Affairs in the Wilson and Callaghan governments between 1974 and 1979. He became a founder member of the Social Democrats,becoming the Liberal Democrats Chief Whip in the House of Lords between 1994 and 2001.
Alison Mary Suttie,Baroness Suttie is a British Liberal Democrat politician. She was appointed a life peer in the House of Lords in September 2013. A party whip,she is a member of the Liberal Democrat foreign affairs team. She is also a trustee on the board of IPPR.
Andrew James Dunlop,Baron Dunlop is a British politician and life peer. From May 2015 to June 2017,he was the Under-Secretary of State for Scotland and Northern Ireland. He sits in the House of Lords on the Conservative benches.
