Kenneth Harry Clarke,Baron Clarke of Nottingham,,is a British politician who served as Home Secretary from 1992 to 1993 and Chancellor of the Exchequer from 1993 to 1997. A member of the Conservative Party,he was Member of Parliament (MP) for Rushcliffe from 1970 to 2019 and was Father of the House of Commons between 2017 and 2019. The President of the Tory Reform Group since 1997,he is a one-nation conservative who identifies with economically and socially liberal views.
David Anthony Llewellyn Owen,Baron Owen,is a British politician and physician who served as Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs as a Labour Party MP under James Callaghan from 1977 to 1979,and later led the Social Democratic Party (SDP). He was a Member of Parliament for 26 years,from 1966 to 1992.
A crossbencher is a minor party member of some legislatures,such as the British House of Lords and the Parliament of Australia. They take their name from the crossbenches,between and perpendicular to the government and opposition benches,where crossbenchers sit in the chamber.
Gisela Stuart,Baroness Stuart of Edgbaston is a British-German politician and life peer who served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Birmingham Edgbaston from 1997 to 2017. A former member of the Labour Party,she now sits as a crossbencher in the House of Lords.
Patrick Allen McLoughlin,Baron McLoughlin,is a British politician. A member of the Conservative Party,he first became the Member of Parliament (MP) for West Derbyshire following the 1986 by-election. The constituency became the Derbyshire Dales for the 2010 general election;McLoughlin remained the seat's MP until 2019.
Gareth Richard Thomas is a British Labour politician who has served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Harrow West since 1997. He is currently Shadow Minister for Trade on the Opposition frontbench. Thomas served as Minister of State for International Development and Minister of State for Trade,Investment and Consumer Affairs between 2008 and 2010. He was the Chair of the Co-operative Party from 2001 until 2019,and stands for election as a Labour and Co-operative candidate.
John David Beckett Taylor,Baron Taylor of Warwick is a member of the House of Lords in the Parliament of the United Kingdom. His full title is "The Lord Taylor of Warwick". In 1996,at the age of 44,he became one of the youngest people in the upper house.
Daniel Robert Kawczynski is a British Conservative Party politician.
Shailesh Lakhman Vara is a Ugandan-British politician,who served as Secretary of State for Northern Ireland from July to September 2022. A member of the Conservative Party,he has served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for North West Cambridgeshire since 2005.
Syed Salah Kamall,Baron Kamall is a British politician and academic,who from September to October 2022 served in HM Government as Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State at the Department for Digital,Culture,Media and Sport. He was previously Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Innovation at the Department of Health and Social Care (2021–22).
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. He served as Secretary of State for Transport from 2009 to 2010,and as Chairman of the National Infrastructure Commission from 2015 to 2017. He was Chair of the European Movement,from March 2021 until December 2022 having previously served as Vice-Chairman from 2019 to 2021. He is currently a columnist for The New European.
Anthony Paul Bamford,Baron Bamford,,is a British billionaire businessman who is the chairman of J.C. Bamford Excavators Limited (JCB). He succeeded his father,Joseph Cyril Bamford,as chairman and managing director of the company in 1975,at the age of 30. He was knighted in 1990. Bamford has appeared in the Sunday Times Rich List,and in 2021 his net worth was estimated at US$9.48 billion. Bamford is a car collector whose collection includes two examples of the rare Ferrari 250 GTO,valued upwards of $70 million each.
Jonathan Peter Marland,Baron Marland is a British businessman and politician,having served as Prime Minister's Trade Envoy,Minister for Energy and Climate Change and Business,Innovation and Skills,and Treasurer of the Conservative Party.
Joseph Edmund Johnson,Baron Johnson of Marylebone,is a British politician and peer who was Minister of State for Universities,Science,Research and Innovation from 2015 to 2018,and from July to September 2019. A member of the Conservative Party,he was Member of Parliament (MP) for Orpington from 2010 to 2019. He currently sits in the House of Lords. His older brother,Boris Johnson,was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom between 2019 and 2022.
Nosheena Shaheen Mobarik,Baroness Mobarik is a British Conservative politician and Life Peer. She served as a Member of European Parliament for Scotland from 2017 to 2020.
Vote Leave was a campaigning organisation that supported a "Leave" vote in the 2016 United Kingdom European Union membership referendum. On 13 April 2016 it was designated by the Electoral Commission as the official campaign in favour of leaving the European Union in the Referendum.
The Institute for Free Trade (IFT) is a private,not-for-profit,research foundation based in central London. It aims to make "the intellectual and moral case for free trade" and sees Brexit as an "opportunity to revitalise the world trading system".
On 28 August 2019,the Parliament of the United Kingdom was ordered to be prorogued by Queen Elizabeth II on the advice of the Conservative prime minister,Boris Johnson –this advice was later ruled unlawful. The prorogation,or suspension,of Parliament was to be effective from some point between 9 and 12 September 2019 and would last until the State Opening of Parliament on 14 October 2019. As a consequence,Parliament was suspended between 10 September and 24 September 2019. Since Parliament was to be prorogued for five weeks and reconvene just 17 days before the United Kingdom's scheduled departure from the European Union on 31 October 2019,the move was seen by many opposition politicians and political commentators as a controversial and unconstitutional attempt by the prime minister to avoid parliamentary scrutiny of the Government's Brexit plans in the final weeks leading up to Brexit. Johnson and his Government defended the prorogation of Parliament as a routine political process that ordinarily follows the selection of a new prime minister and would allow the Government to refocus on a legislative agenda.
The United Kingdom Internal Market Act 2020 is an act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom passed in December 2020. Its purpose is to prevent internal trade barriers within the UK,and to restrict the legislative powers of the devolved administrations in economic matters. It is one of several pieces of legislation concerning trade that were passed following the European Union membership referendum,as after Brexit the UK is no longer directly subject to EU law.
