Alan James Beith,Baron Beith,is a British Liberal Democrat politician who represented Berwick-upon-Tweed as its Member of Parliament (MP) from 1973 to 2015.
John Haggitt Charles Patten,Baron Patten,is a British politician. He was formerly Conservative Member of Parliament for Oxford and subsequently for Oxford West and Abingdon.
Andrew Henry George is a British Liberal Democrat politician. He was the Member of Parliament (MP) for the constituency of St Ives in Cornwall from 1997 to 2015,when he was defeated by the Conservatives' Derek Thomas. He was the vice-chairman of the All Party Parliamentary Housing and Planning Group in the 2010 parliament. He currently serves as a Cornwall Councillor for Ludgvan,Madron,Gulval and Heamoor,having been elected in the 2021 local elections.
Eric Reginald Lubbock,4th Baron Avebury,was an English politician and human rights campaigner. He served as the Liberal Member of Parliament for Orpington from 1962 to 1970. He then served in the House of Lords,having inherited the title of Baron Avebury in 1971,until his death. In 1999,when most hereditary peers were removed from the House of Lords,he was elected by his fellow Liberal Democrats to remain. When he died,he was the longest serving Liberal Democrat peer.
Dick Taverne,Baron Taverne,is a British politician and life peer who served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Lincoln from 1962 to 1974. A member of the Liberal Democrats,he was a Labour MP until his deselection in 1972,following which he resigned his seat and won the subsequent by-election in 1973 as a Democratic Labour candidate.
Oxford East is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament by Anneliese Dodds of the Labour Party,who also serves as party chair.
Oxford West and Abingdon is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2017 by Layla Moran,a Liberal Democrat.
Lorely Jane Burt,Baroness Burt of Solihull is a British politician,who was the Liberal Democrat Member of Parliament for Solihull from 2005 to 2015. She received a life peerage in the 2015 Dissolution Honours. She is a patron of Humanists UK.
Witney is a county constituency in Oxfordshire represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom since 2016 by Robert Courts of the Conservative Party. It elects one Member of Parliament by the first-past-the-post system of election,and was created for the 1983 general election.
Martin Charles Horwood is a British Liberal Democrat politician who represented South West England in the European Parliament from 2019 to 2020. He previously served as the Member of Parliament for Cheltenham from 2005 to 2015.
William Howard Goodhart,Baron Goodhart,was a British Liberal Democrat politician,a leading property and human rights lawyer,and a member of the House of Lords.
Julian Leon Huppert is a Liberal Democrat politician in the United Kingdom. He was the Member of Parliament for Cambridge from 2010 to 2015.
Layla Michelle Moran is a British Liberal Democrat politician serving as the Liberal Democrat Spokesperson for Foreign Affairs and International Development since 2020,and serving as the Member of Parliament for Oxford West and Abingdon since 2017.
The Animal Protection Party (APP) was a political party founded in England in 2006 to represent an animal rights perspective. It stood four candidates in the 2010 general election. The party de-registered in 2016.
Phillip James Lee is a British doctor and politician who served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Bracknell from 2010 until 2019. A former member of the Conservative Party,which he left in 2019 to join the Liberal Democrats,he unsuccessfully stood for the neighbouring Wokingham constituency in the 2019 general election.
Nicola Claire Blackwood,Baroness Blackwood of North Oxford is a British politician of the Conservative Party. Baroness Blackwood was a Member of Parliament (MP) for Oxford West and Abingdon from 2010 to 2017. She has also been known by her married name Nicola Blackwood-Bate since 2016.
On 20 October 2016,a by-election was held in the UK parliamentary constituency of Witney. It took place on the same day as the Batley and Spen by-election. They were the fifth and sixth by-elections of the 56th UK Parliament.
The 2019 Liberal Democrats leadership election was held following the announcement of the resignation of Vince Cable as leader on 24 May 2019,after just under two years as leader of the Liberal Democrats in the United Kingdom. The two candidates to succeed Cable were Ed Davey and Jo Swinson.
Daisy Cooper is a British Liberal Democrat politician who has served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for St Albans since 2019. She has served as the Deputy Leader of the Liberal Democrats since 2020,and as the Liberal Democrat spokesperson for Health,Wellbeing and Social Care since 2021.
