The 1983 United Kingdom general election was held on Thursday 9 June 1983. It gave the Conservative Party under the leadership of Margaret Thatcher the most decisive election victory since that of the Labour Party in 1945,with a majority of 144 seats and the first of two consecutive landslide victories.
David Martin Scott Steel,Baron Steel of Aikwood,is a retired British politician. Elected as Member of Parliament for Roxburgh,Selkirk,and Peebles,followed by Tweeddale,Ettrick,and Lauderdale,he served as the final leader of the Liberal Party,from 1976 to 1988. His tenure spanned the duration of the alliance with the Social Democratic Party,which began in 1981 and concluded with the formation of the Liberal Democrats in 1988.
Sir Robert Hill Smith,3rd Baronet of Crowmallie is a Scottish Liberal Democrat politician who was the Member of Parliament for West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine from 1997 to 2015.
Ashok Kumar was a British Labour politician who served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland from 1997 until his death shortly before the 2010 general election.
Sir Norman Peter Lamb is a British politician and solicitor. He was the Liberal Democrat Member of Parliament (MP) for North Norfolk from 2001 to 2019,and was the chair of the Science and Technology Select Committee from 2017 to 2019.
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.
Redcar is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2019 by Jacob Young,a Conservative.
Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland is a constituency created in 1997 represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2017 by Simon Clarke of the Conservative Party.
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.
David John Barrington Burrowes is a British politician. He was the Conservative Member of Parliament for Enfield Southgate from 2005 to 2017,is the co-founder of the Conservative Christian Fellowship. He has been the Chairman of the Equity Release Council since 2017
Anne Margaret Main is a Conservative Party politician who formerly served as the Member of Parliament for St Albans in Hertfordshire. She was elected at the general election of 2005,and was re-elected in 2010,2015 and 2017. She lost her seat to Daisy Cooper,a Liberal Democrat,at the 2019 general election.
Mark James Hunter is a British Liberal Democrat politician and leader of Stockport Metropolitan Borough Council who became Member of Parliament (MP) for Cheadle at a 2005 by-election. At the 2015 general election,Hunter lost his seat to Mary Robinson of the Conservative Party. Since 19 May 2022,Hunter has served as the leader of Stockport Metropolitan Borough Council.
Cambridge University Liberal Association (CULA) is the student branch of the Liberal Democrats for students at Cambridge University.
Edmund Ian Marshall is a British politician and churchman.
Gwynoro Glyndwr Jones is a Welsh politician who served as a Labour Member of Parliament. He was a schools inspector for 18 years;he has also been a broadcaster,political commentator and journalist. As a politician,he is best remembered for his long struggle to hold the mainly Welsh-speaking constituency of Carmarthen for the Labour Party against Plaid Cymru leader Gwynfor Evans,about which he wrote a book in the Welsh language.
Michael Stuart Thomas is a former British politician,identified with the Labour Party until 1981 and thereafter with the Social Democratic Party (SDP). He became well known for his role in both the establishment of the SDP and then in the SDP's subsequent demise. The SDP's leader,Roy Jenkins,referred to Thomas as the "pint-sized Pavarotti",on the basis of his stocky build and beard together with his ebullient manner.
Paul Christopher Blomfield is a British politician who has served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Sheffield Central since 2010. A member of the Labour Party,he was a Shadow Minister for Exiting the European Union from 2016 to 2020 and Shadow Minister for Brexit and European Union Negotiations from 2020 to 2021.
The Social Democratic Party (SDP) was a centrist to centre-left political party in the United Kingdom. The party supported a mixed economy,electoral reform,European integration and a decentralised state while rejecting the possibility of trade unions being overly influential within the industrial sphere. The SDP officially advocated social democracy,but its actual propensity is evaluated as close to social liberalism.
Anna Catherine Turley is a British former politician. She was the Labour and Co-operative Member of Parliament (MP) for Redcar from 2015 until 2019. Turley was chair of the Co-operative Party from 8 June 2019 until December 2019. She currently serves as chair of the North East Child Poverty Commission (NECPC).
Jacob Young is a British Conservative Party politician serving as Assistant Government Whip since September 2022. He was elected as the member of Parliament (MP) for Redcar at the 2019 general election. He is the first Conservative MP to represent the constituency.
