Jeremy Bernard Corbyn is a British politician who has been Member of Parliament (MP) for Islington North since 1983. An independent,Corbyn was a member of the Labour Party from 1965 until his expulsion in 2024,and is a member of the Socialist Campaign Group parliamentary caucus. He served as Leader of the Opposition and Leader of the Labour Party from 2015 to 2020. Corbyn identifies ideologically as a socialist on the political left.
Michael John Gapes is a British former politician who served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Ilford South from 1992 to 2019.
Bassetlaw is a parliamentary constituency in Nottinghamshire,represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since the 2024 general election by Jo White,a Labour Party candidate. Before the 2019 general election,the seat had been part of the so-called "red wall",being held by the Labour Party since 1935 before falling to the Conservative Party.
Angela Christine Smith is a British former politician who served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Penistone and Stocksbridge from 2010 to 2019 and MP for Sheffield Hillsborough from 2005 to 2010. A member of the Labour Party,she was previously an MP for Labour,later for Change UK,later still as a member of The Independents,then joined the Liberal Democrats before leaving Parliament in 2019. She rejoined Labour in 2022.
Ian Christopher Austin,Baron Austin of Dudley is a British politician who sits as a life peer in the House of Lords. He was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Dudley North from the 2005 general election until the 2019 general election when he stood down. Formerly a member of the Labour Party,he resigned from the party on 22 February 2019 to sit as an independent,and was ennobled in the 2019 Dissolution Honours. He served as Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State at the Department for Communities and Local Government from 2009 to 2010.
Owen Smith is a British lobbyist and former Labour Party politician. Smith was Member of Parliament (MP) for Pontypridd from 2010 to 2019.
John Zak Woodcock,Baron Walney is a British politician and life peer who formerly acted as the Conservative government’s independent adviser on political violence and disruption. He had previously served as a Labour Co-op and then independent Member of Parliament (MP) for Barrow and Furness from 2010 to 2019. He has sat as a crossbencher in the House of Lords since 2021,previously sitting as a non-affiliated peer.
Ruth Lauren Smeeth,Baroness Anderson of Stoke-on-Trent is a British Labour Party politician who was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Stoke-on-Trent North from 2015 until 2019. Since 2022 she has been a member of the House of Lords.
Neil Alan John Coyle is a British Labour politician who has served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Bermondsey and Old Southwark since 2015.
Peter John Kyle is a British Labour politician who has served as Secretary of State for Science,Innovation and Technology since July 2024. The Member of Parliament (MP) for Hove and Portslade since 2015,he previously served as Shadow Minister for Victims and Youth Justice,Shadow Minister for Schools,and Shadow Northern Ireland Secretary.
The 2019 United Kingdom general election was held on Thursday,12 December 2019,with 47,567,752 registered voters entitled to vote to elect 650 Members of Parliament (MPs) to the House of Commons. The governing Conservative Party led by the prime minister,Boris Johnson,won a landslide victory with a majority of 80 seats,a net gain of 48,on 43.6 per cent of the popular vote,the highest percentage for any party since the 1979 general election,though with a narrower popular vote margin than that achieved by the Labour Party over the Conservatives at the 1997 general election. This was the second national election to be held in 2019 in the United Kingdom,the first being the 2019 European Parliament election.
This article summarises the views and voting record of Jeremy Corbyn,who was the Leader of the Opposition and Leader of the Labour Party in the United Kingdom from 12 September 2015 until 4 April 2020. An independent,Corbyn was a member of the Labour Party from 1965 until his expulsion in 2024.
Jeremy Corbyn was elected as Leader of the Opposition in September 2015,following the resignation of Ed Miliband after Labour's defeat at the 2015 general election. Disillusioned by a lack of a left-wing voice in the 2015 Labour Party leadership contest,Corbyn stood on an anti-austerity platform. Of the candidates who stood,Corbyn received the fewest parliamentary nominations. Many who nominated him said they had done so not to support his candidacy,but to widen the debate by including a socialist voice. However,Corbyn soon became the frontrunner and was elected with a landslide of 59%.
There have been instances of antisemitism within the Labour Party of the United Kingdom (UK) since its establishment. One such example is canards about "Jewish finance" during the Boer War. In the 2000s,controversies arose over comments made by Labour politicians regarding an alleged "Jewish lobby",a comparison by London Labour politician Ken Livingstone of a Jewish journalist to a concentration camp guard,and a 2005 Labour attack on Jewish Conservative Party politician Michael Howard.
On 15 January 2019,a motion of no confidence in the government of Theresa May was tabled in the House of Commons. On 16 January,the House rejected the motion by a vote of 325 to 306.
Change UK,founded as The Independent Group (TIG) and later The Independent Group for Change,was a British centrist,pro–European Union political party,which lasted for ten months in 2019. Established in February and formally recognized as a party in May,it was dissolved in December after all its MPs lost their seats at that year's general election. Its principal aim was a second withdrawal referendum on European Union membership,in which it would campaign to remain in the EU. On economic issues it expressed a commitment to the social market economy.
Brendan Clarke-Smith is a British politician and former teacher. A member of the Conservative Party,he served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Bassetlaw from 2019 to 2024. He served under Rishi Sunak as a deputy chairman of the Conservative Party from November 2023 to January 2024,under Liz Truss as Parliamentary Secretary for the Cabinet Office from September and October 2022,and under Boris Johnson as Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Minister without Portfolio and Minister of State from February 2022 to July 2022,and as Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Children and Families from July to September 2022.
Samuel Peter Tarry is a British politician who was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Ilford South from 2019 until 2024. He was a member of the Socialist Campaign Group parliamentary caucus. On 10 October 2022 he was deselected by the Ilford South Constituency Labour Party as its candidate for the 2024 election.
Joanna Ruth White,Baroness Mann is a British Labour Party politician serving as Member of Parliament (MP) for Bassetlaw since 2024.
