The House of Lords is the upper house of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. Like the lower house,the House of Commons,it meets in the Palace of Westminster in London,England. One of the oldest institutions in the world,its origins lie in the early 11th century and the emergence of bicameralism in the 13th century.
Peter Benjamin Mandelson,Baron Mandelson,is a British Labour Party politician who served as First Secretary of State from 2009 to 2010. He was President of the Board of Trade in 1998 and from 2008 to 2010. He is the president of international think tank Policy Network,honorary president of the Great Britain–China Centre,and chairman of strategic advisory firm Global Counsel. Mandelson is often referred to as a Blairite.
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 or independent 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.
David Patrick Paul Alton,Baron Alton of Liverpool,KCSG,KCMCO is a British-Irish politician,formerly a Member of Parliament for the Liberal Party and later Liberal Democrat who has sat as a crossbench member of the House of Lords since 1997 when he was made a life peer. Alton is also known for his human rights work including the co-founding of Jubilee Action,the children's charity,and serves as chair,patron or trustee of several charities and voluntary organisations.
John David Beckett Taylor,Baron Taylor of Warwick is a member of the House of Lords in the Parliament of the United Kingdom. In 1996,at the age of 44,he became one of the youngest people in the upper house.
David Maxim Triesman,Baron Triesman is a British politician,merchant banker and former trade union leader.
John Richard Attlee,3rd Earl Attlee,styled Viscount Prestwood between 1967 and 1991,is a British Conservative Party peer and member of the House of Lords. He is the grandson of Clement Attlee,the Labour Prime Minister,who was the first Earl Attlee.
Jonathan Adair Turner,Baron Turner of Ecchinswell is a British businessman and academic who was Chairman of the Financial Services Authority during the 2007–2008 financial crisis and the Great Recession,serving from September 2008 until its abolition in March 2013. He is a former chairman of the Pensions Commission and the Committee on Climate Change,as well as a former Director-General of the Confederation of British Industry. He has described himself in a BBC HARDtalk interview with Stephen Sackur as a 'technocrat'.
Shailesh Lakhman Vara is a Ugandan-British Conservative former politician who was the Member of Parliament (MP) for North West Cambridgeshire from 2005 until 2024. He also served as Secretary of State for Northern Ireland from July to September 2022.
Peter Forbes Ricketts,Baron Ricketts,is a retired British senior diplomat and a life peer. He has sat as a crossbencher in the House of Lords since 2016.
David Philip Pannick,Baron Pannick,is a British barrister and a crossbencher in the House of Lords. He practises mainly in the areas of public law and human rights. He has argued cases before the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom,the Appellate Committee of the House of Lords,the European Court of Justice,and the European Court of Human Rights.
Karan Faridoon Bilimoria,Baron Bilimoria,is a British Indian businessman,member of the House of Lords,and former Chancellor of the University of Birmingham.
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.
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.
David George Hamilton Frost,Baron Frost is a former British diplomat,civil servant and politician who served as a Minister of State at the Cabinet Office between March and December 2021. Frost was Chief Negotiator of Task Force Europe from January 2020 until his resignation in December 2021.
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.
Alun Craig Williams is a British politician who was Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Prime Minister from October 2022 until June 2024. A member of the Conservative Party,he was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Cardiff North from 2015 to 2017,when he was defeated for reelection by the Labour Party's Anna McMorrin. In 2019,Williams was elected as the MP for Montgomeryshire,but lost the seat in the 2024 general election.
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.
