John Marek is a British politician who served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Wrexham from 1983 to 2001,and the Member of the Welsh Assembly (AM) for Wrexham from 1999 to 2007. A member of the Labour Party until 2003,he successfully stood for re-election to the Welsh Assembly as a John Marek Independent Party candidate. Marek founded and led Forward Wales from 2003 until 2010,when the party was disbanded and he joined the Conservatives.
Sarah Louise Teather is the Director of Jesuit Refugee Service UK and a former British Member of Parliament and Minister. As a Liberal Democrat politician,she founded the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Guantanamo Bay and was chairman of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Refugees. On stepping down as an MP,she joined the Jesuit Refugee Service as an advocacy adviser and was appointed as country director of JRS UK in December 2015.
Francis Cook was a British Labour and later independent politician who served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Stockton North from 1983 until 2010.
Anne Campbell is an English Labour Party politician. She was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Cambridge from 1992 to 2005.
Anne Moffat is a Scottish Labour Party politician who was the Member of Parliament (MP) for East Lothian from 2001 to 2010. She was deselected by her Constituency Labour Party and replaced by Fiona O'Donnell.
Martin John Salter is a British Labour Party politician who was the Member of Parliament for Reading West from 1997 to 2010.
Dick Taverne,Baron Taverne,QC is an English Liberal Democrat politician and life peer in the House of Lords. In 1972 he was deselected as a Labour Member of Parliament (MP) for Lincoln,so he left the Labour Party and resigned his seat,forcing a by-election which he won.
Reading East is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2017 by Matt Rodda,of the Labour Party. The seat is one of two won by a Labour candidate in 2017 from a total of eight covering its county. Rodda's 2017 win was one of 30 net gains of the Labour Party.
Peter John Law was a Welsh politician. Formerly a member of the Labour Party,he stood as an independent candidate in the 2005 general election,defeating the Labour candidate by over 9,000 votes. The Daily Telegraph described his victory as "one of the most spectacular general election results of modern times".
Nia Rhiannon Griffith is a British politician who has served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Llanelli since 2005. A member of the Labour Party,she was Shadow Secretary of State for Wales from 2015 to 2016 and again from 2020 to 2021. She served as Shadow Secretary of State for Defence from 2016 to 2020.
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.
Rosemary Elizabeth Cooper is a British Labour Party politician who was first elected as the Member of Parliament (MP) for West Lancashire in 2005.
David John Nellist is a British Trotskyist activist who was the MP for the constituency of Coventry South East from 1983 to 1992. Elected as a Labour MP,his support for the Militant tendency led to his eventual expulsion from the party in late 1991. He is the National Chair of the Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition,a member of the Socialist Party,and was a city councillor in Coventry from 1998 to 2012.
Edward James Milne was a British Labour politician,who was elected as independent candidate after deselection by his party.
James Devine is a former Member of Parliament. He was the Labour Party member for Livingston from 2005 until 2010 and Chairman of the Scottish Labour Party between 1994 and 1995.
Thirsk and Malton is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2015 by Kevin Hollinrake,a Conservative.
Stella Judith Creasy is a British Labour and Co-operative politician who has been Member of Parliament (MP) for the London constituency of Walthamstow since 2010.
Paula Michelle Sherriff is a British Labour politician who served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Dewsbury from 2015 to 2019.
Deselection in the UK Labour Party is the process by which support for an MP is withdrawn by their local party meaning that the MP is unable to stand in a forthcoming General Election with the support of the party.
