John Archibald Sinclair,3rd Viscount Thurso,,known also as John Thurso,is a Scottish businessman,Liberal Democrat politician and hereditary peer who is notable for having served in the House of Lords both before and after a period in the House of Commons.
Estelle Morris,Baroness Morris of Yardley,,is a British politician and life peer who served as Secretary of State for Education and Skills from 2001 to 2002. A member of the Labour Party,she was Member of Parliament (MP) for Birmingham Yardley from 1992 to 2005.
Richard Haines Burden is a British Labour Party politician who was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Birmingham Northfield from 1992 to 2019. He served as a Shadow Transport Minister from 2013 to 2016 and again from 2016 to 2017. After the 2017 general election,he returned to the backbenches and served as a member of the House of Commons International Development Committee.
John Robert Cryer is a British politician who has served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Leyton and Wanstead since 2010. A member of the Labour Party,he was previously MP for Hornchurch from 1997 to 2005. Cryer has been Chair of the Parliamentary Labour Party since 2015.
Sir Edward Jonathan Davey is a British politician who has served as Leader of the Liberal Democrats since 2020,having acted in the position from 2019 to 2020. He served in the Cameron–Clegg coalition as Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change from 2012 to 2015 and as Deputy Leader to Jo Swinson in 2019. An "Orange Book" liberal,he has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Kingston and Surbiton since 2017,and served in the same role from 1997 to 2015.
Roger Duncan Godsiff is a British former politician who served as the Labour Member of Parliament (MP) from 1992 to 2019,for the seats of Birmingham Small Heath,Birmingham Sparkbrook and Small Heath,and Birmingham Hall Green.
Alexander Morrison "Alistair" Carmichael is a Scottish politician who has served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Orkney and Shetland since 2001. A member of the Scottish Liberal Democrats,he currently serves as the Liberal Democrat Home Affairs,Northern Ireland and Justice spokesperson. He served as the Deputy Leader of the Scottish Liberal Democrats from 2012 to 2021.
Hodge Hill and Solihull North is a constituency of part of the city of Birmingham represented in the House of Commons since 2004 by Liam Byrne,a member of the Labour Party.
Birmingham Yardley is a constituency of part of the city of Birmingham represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2015 by Jess Phillips of the Labour Party.
Duncan John Hames is a Director of Policy at Transparency International UK and a former Liberal Democrat politician. He was the Member of Parliament (MP) for the Chippenham constituency in Wiltshire from 2010 to 2015. Between 2012 and 2015,he served as Parliamentary Private Secretary to Nick Clegg when he was Deputy Prime Minister.
Stephen Anthony Christopher Lloyd is a British Liberal Democrat politician who was twice Member of Parliament (MP) for the seat of Eastbourne.
Caroline Fiona Ellen Nokes is a British Conservative Party politician. She was first elected as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Romsey and Southampton North in Hampshire in the 2010 general election. Elected as a Conservative,Nokes had the Conservative whip removed on 3 September 2019 and sat as an independent politician until the whip was restored to her on 29 October.
Paul Singh Uppal is a Conservative Party politician from the United Kingdom. He was the Member of Parliament for Wolverhampton South West from the 2010 general election to 2015. Uppal attempted to win the seat back at the 2017 general election
Acocks Green ward is an electoral ward in south-east Birmingham,England,and following the boundary reorganisation of 1 December 2017 includes the areas of Acocks Green,Stockfield and Fox Hollies.
On 13 January 2011,a by-election was held for the UK House of Commons constituency of Oldham East and Saddleworth. Labour Party candidate Debbie Abrahams held the seat for her party with an increased majority over the Liberal Democrats,succeeding Phil Woolas,whose victory in the 2010 general election had been declared void because he had knowingly made false statements attacking his Liberal Democrat opponent's personal character.
Benjamin Russell Mackintosh Stoneham,Baron Stoneham of Droxford is a British peer,journalist,and Liberal Democrat politician. He is currently the Liberal Democrat Chief Whip in the House of Lords,having been elected to that position in October 2016.
A series of mayoral referendums were held on 3 May 2012 in England's 11 largest cities to determine whether to introduce directly elected mayors to provide political leadership,replacing their current council leaders,who are elected by the local council.
Jessica Rose Phillips is a British politician serving as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Birmingham Yardley since 2015. A member of the Labour Party,she was Shadow Minister for Domestic Violence and Safeguarding in Keir Starmer's Opposition frontbench from 2020 to 2023.
Wera Benedicta Hobhouse is a British-German politician. A member of the Liberal Democrats,she has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Bath since 2017 and serves as the Liberal Democrat Shadow Leader of the House of Commons and Spokesperson for Energy and Climate Change and Transport under Ed Davey.
The 2022 Birmingham City Council election took place on 5 May 2022,with all 101 council seats up for election across 37 single-member and 32 two-member wards. The election was held alongside other local elections across Great Britain and town council elections in Sutton Coldfield.
