Nicholas Hugh Brown is a British Independent politician who has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Newcastle upon Tyne East since 1983,making him the fifth longest serving MP in the House of Commons. He is the longest serving Chief Whip of the Labour Party,holding the position in three separate periods under six Labour leaders –Tony Blair,Gordon Brown,Harriet Harman,Ed Miliband,Jeremy Corbyn and Keir Starmer. He also held several ministerial positions whilst his party was in government from 1997 until 2010. On 26 May 2021,Brown was elected as chair of the Finance Committee. Brown sits in the House of Commons as an independent,having had the whip removed in September 2022,triggered by an investigation into undisclosed matters affecting his Labour membership.
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.
Vernon Rodney Coaker,Baron Coaker is a British politician and life peer serving as Shadow Spokesperson for Home Affairs and Defence since 2021. A member of the Labour Party,he was Member of Parliament (MP) for Gedling from 1997 to 2019.
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.
Christopher Michael Leslie is a debt collection executive and a former British politician who served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Shipley from 1997 to 2005 and Nottingham East from 2010 to 2019. A former member of the Labour Party,he defected to form Change UK and later became an independent politician.
Jeffrey William Rooker,Baron Rooker is a British politician and life peer who served as a government minister from 1997 to 2008. A member of the Labour Party,he was Member of Parliament (MP) for Birmingham Perry Barr from 1974 to 2001.
Andrew Francis Slaughter is a British Labour Party politician serving as Member of Parliament (MP) for Hammersmith,previously Ealing,Acton and Shepherd's Bush,since 2005. Prior to his election to Parliament,he had served as Leader of the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham Council. On 15 November 2023 Slaughter voted for an SNP amendment to the King's Speech,demanding an immediate Ceasefire in Gaza,contrary to the Labour Party's official stance to support HM Government line on the 2023 Israel-Hamas conflict. He was sacked by Sir Keir Starmer from his position as Shadow Solicitor General.
Warley is a constituency in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament. The constituency was established in 1997,and has been represented since that date by John Spellar,a member of the Labour Party.
Jessica Elizabeth Morden is a British politician serving as Member of Parliament (MP) for Newport East since 2005. A member of the Labour Party,she was General Secretary of Welsh Labour from 1999 until her election to Parliament.
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.
Conor Patrick McGinn is a British politician serving as Member of Parliament (MP) for St Helens North since 2015. He was the Labour Party Deputy National Campaign Coordinator from June 2021 and Shadow Minister without Portfolio from December 2021 until September 2022.
The Birmingham,Northfield by-election of 28 October 1982 was held after the death of Conservative Member of Parliament (MP) Jocelyn Cadbury on 31 July 1982. The seat was gained by the Labour Party in a defeat for Margaret Thatcher's government,ironically just after opinion polls showed an upswing in Conservative support following the victorious Falklands War campaign weeks earlier.
Shabana Mahmood is a British politician and barrister who has served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Birmingham Ladywood since 2010. A member of the Labour Party,she has served in the Shadow Cabinet of Keir Starmer as Shadow Secretary of State for Justice from September 2023. She previously served as Campaign Co-ordinator from 2021 to 2023,and briefly as Shadow Chief Secretary to the Treasury in 2015.
Karl William Turner is a British politician. A member of the Labour Party,Turner has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Kingston upon Hull East since 2010.
Lilian Rachel Greenwood is a British Labour Party politician serving as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Nottingham South since 2010,and the Shadow Minister for Arts,Heritage and Civil Society since 2023.
Michael Vincent Dugher is a former British Labour politician who was elected as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Barnsley East at the 2010 general election. He has held several senior positions within the party,including Shadow Secretary of State for Transport and Shadow Secretary of State for Culture,Media and Sport. He did not stand at the 2017 general election.
Grahame Mark Morris is a British Labour Party politician. He was elected at the 2010 general election as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Easington,replacing Labour MP John Cummings,who decided to step down.
Sir Nicholas Dakin is a British Labour politician who served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Scunthorpe from 2010 to 2019. He was the Shadow Minister for Schools from 2015 to 2016,Shadow Deputy Leader of the House of Commons in 2015,and an opposition whip from 2011 to 2015 and 2016 to 2019.
Susan Mary Hayman,Baroness Hayman of Ullock is a British politician and life peer who served as Shadow Secretary of State for Environment,Food and Rural Affairs from 2017 to 2019. A member of the Labour Party,she was Member of Parliament (MP) for Workington from 2015 to 2019 and appointed to the House of Lords in 2020.
Eleanor Claire Reeves is a British politician who has served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Lewisham West and Penge since 2017. A member of the Labour Party,she has served as Labour Party Deputy National Campaign Coordinator since 2023. She previously served as Shadow Solicitor General for England and Wales from April 2020 to December 2021 and Shadow Minister for Prisons and Probation from 2021 to 2023.
