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.
Stephen John Byers is a British Labour Party politician who was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Wallsend between 1992 and 1997,and North Tyneside from 1997 to 2010. He served in the Cabinet from 1998 to 2002,and was implicated in the MP expenses scandal and retired from politics in 2010.
Alan Milburn is a British politician who was Member of Parliament (MP) for Darlington from 1992 to 2010. A member of the Labour Party,he served for five years in the Cabinet,first as Chief Secretary to the Treasury from 1998 to 1999,and subsequently as Secretary of State for Health until 2003,when he resigned. He briefly rejoined the Cabinet as Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster in order to manage Labour's 2005 re-election campaign. He did not seek re-election in the 2010 election. Milburn was chair of the Social Mobility Commission from 2012 to 2017. Since 2015,he has been Chancellor of Lancaster University.
In British politics,Blairism is the political ideology of Tony Blair,the former leader of the Labour Party and Prime Minister between 1997 and 2007,and those that support him,known as Blairites. It entered the New Penguin English Dictionary in 2000. Elements of the ideology include investment in public services,expansionary efforts in education to encourage social mobility,and increased actions in terms of mass surveillance alongside a ramping up of law enforcement powers,both of these latter changes advocated in the context of fighting organized crime and terrorism. Blairites have additionally been known for their contrast with the traditional support for socialism by those believing in left-wing politics,with Blair himself and others speaking out against the nationalisation of major industries and against also heavy regulations of business operations. On foreign policy,Blairism is supportive of close relations with the United States and liberal interventionism,including advocacy for both the Iraq war and the War in Afghanistan (2001–2021).
Nicholas Hugh Brown,known as Nick Brown,is a British former politician and trade unionist who served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Newcastle upon Tyne East between 1983 and 2024. He represented the Labour Party until his resignation in 2023. Brown is the longest-serving Chief Whip of the Labour Party,discontinuously holding the position several times between 1997 and 2021 under Blair,Brown,Miliband,Corbyn and Starmer.
Robert William Ainsworth is a British Labour Party politician who was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Coventry North East from 1992 to 2015,and was the Secretary of State for Defence from 2009 to 2010. Following the general election in 2010 he was the Shadow Defence Secretary,but was replaced by Jim Murphy following the election of Labour leader Ed Miliband.
James Dolan Cunningham is a Labour Party politician in the United Kingdom. He served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Coventry South from 1992 to 2019.
Dawn Primarolo,Baroness Primarolo,is a British Labour Party politician who was the Member of Parliament for Bristol South from 1987 until 2015,when she stood down. She was Minister of State for Children,Young People and Families at the Department for Children,Schools and Families from June 2009 to May 2010 and a Deputy Speaker of the House of Commons from 2010 to 2015. She was appointed Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) in the 2014 Birthday Honours for political service. She was nominated for a life peerage in the 2015 Dissolution Honours.
Jon Hedley Trickett is a British Labour Party politician who has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Normanton and Hemsworth,previously Hemsworth,since 1996. He was Shadow Lord President of the Council from 2016 to 2020 and served as Shadow Minister for the Cabinet Office from 2011 to 2013 and 2017 to 2020. He was the Labour Party National Campaign Coordinator under Jeremy Corbyn from 2015 to 2017.
Iain David Wright is a British Labour Party politician who was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Hartlepool from 2004 to 2017,and served also as the Chairman of Business Innovation and Skills Committee. He was previously Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State with responsibility for apprenticeships,and 14 to 19 reform in the Department for Children,Schools and Families until 11 May 2010.
Meriden was a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament. It was named after the village of Meriden,halfway between Solihull and Coventry.
Patrick Bosco McFadden is a British politician who has served as Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster since July 2024. A member of the Labour Party,he has served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Wolverhampton South East since 2005. McFadden has previously held various junior ministerial positions and shadow portfolios in his parliamentary career between 2005 and 2024.
"Tony's Cronies" was a term in British politics and media given to people who were viewed as being given positions of power because of their personal friendships with Prime Minister Tony Blair,during his premiership between 1997 and 2007. These included those granted life peerages and public positions based on their friendship with Blair rather than their individual merits. The phrase was created by the Conservative Party following the 1997 general election and was continually used in the media throughout Blair's premiership.
Greg Beales is Director of Communications &Policy at the BMA having formerly worked for the homelessness charity Shelter;as a Downing Street advisor to Prime Ministers Gordon Brown and Tony Blair and as Director of Strategy and Planning for the Labour Party.
The 1968 Dudley by-election was a by-election held for the British House of Commons constituency of Dudley in Worcestershire on 28 March 1968. It was won by the Conservative Party candidate Donald Williams.
Simon Gilbert is an English journalist and author. He is a political reporter on radio,online and TV for the BBC and has worked on BBC Coventry and Warwickshire,BBC WM,Midlands Today and Sunday Politics Midlands.
Joska Bourgeois was a Belgian businesswoman who was the Belgian agent for Jaguar and later Toyota cars. Bourgeois became notable after her death for her relationship with the British businessman and politician Geoffrey Robinson,who was the recipient of a £12.75 million trust fund established by Bourgeois.
Zarah Sultana is a British politician who has served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Coventry South since the 2019 general election,representing the Labour Party until her suspension. Sultana received a six-month suspension in July 2024 as one of seven Labour MPs who voted to scrap the two-child benefit cap. On the political left,she is a member of,and currently chairs,the Socialist Campaign Group.
In the United Kingdom,a minister without portfolio is often a cabinet position,or often attends cabinet. The role is sometimes used to enable the chairman of the governing party,contemporarily either the chairman of the Conservative Party or the chair of the Labour Party,to attend cabinet meetings. The sinecure positions of Lord Privy Seal,Paymaster General,and Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster which have few responsibilities and have a higher rank in the order of precedence than minister without portfolio can also be used to similar effect. There is currently one minister without portfolio,Ellie Reeves,who was appointed following the 2024 general election.
