Sir Benjamin Peter James Bradshaw is a British politician who served as Secretary of State for Culture,Media and Sport from 2009 to 2010. A member of the Labour Party,he served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Exeter from 1997 to 2024. Before entering politics he worked as a BBC Radio reporter.
Sharon Hodgson is a British politician who has served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Washington and Gateshead South since 2024,and previously for Washington and Sunderland West and Gateshead East and Washington West from 2005. A member of the Labour Party,she has chaired the Finance Committee since 2023.
Sunderland Central is a constituency in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament. It is represented by the Labour Party MP Lewis Atkinson,who has held the seat since 2024.
Anas Sarwar is a Scottish Labour and Co-operative politician who has served as Leader of the Scottish Labour Party since 2021. He has been a Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) for the Glasgow region since 2016,having been Member of Parliament (MP) for Glasgow Central from 2010 to 2015.
Bridget Maeve Phillipson is a British politician who has served as Secretary of State for Education and Minister for Women and Equalities since July 2024. A member of the Labour Party,she was elected as the Member of Parliament for Houghton and Sunderland South at the 2010 general election.
Julie Elliott is a British Labour Party politician,who served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Sunderland Central from 2010 to 2024. Elliott served as Shadow Minister for Energy and Climate Change from October 2013 to September 2015,with specific responsibility for renewable energy,the Green Investment Bank,and skills and supply chain issues. She has also served as chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Group for Rugby Union and vice-chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on State Pension Inequality for Women. Elliott was re-elected for the Labour Party in Sunderland Central at the 2019 general election with a majority of 2,964.
Jane Elizabeth Ellison is a British United Nations official and former politician. A member of the Conservative Party,she was first elected at the 2010 general election as the Member of Parliament for Battersea. On 7 May 2015,she was re-elected with an increased margin of 3.4%. She lost the seat to Marsha de Cordova of the Labour Party at the 2017 snap general election. In November 2017 she joined the senior leadership team of the World Health Organization serving until November 2022.
Thomas Francis Blenkinsop is a British politician who served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland from 2010 to 2017.
Grahame Mark Morris is a British Labour Party politician who has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Easington since 2010.
Elizabeth Louise Kendall is a British politician who has served as Secretary of State for Work and Pensions since July 2024. A member of the Labour Party,she has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Leicester West since 2010.
Alexander Cunningham is a British politician who served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Stockton North from 2010 to 2024. A member of the Labour Party,he was Shadow Minister for Courts and Sentencing from 2020 to 2024.
The 2011 Scottish Labour Party leadership election was an internal party election to choose a new leader of the Scottish Labour Party. The election followed the announcement by Iain Gray that he would stand down as leader in the autumn of 2011 following the party's heavy defeat to the Scottish National Party in May's Scottish Parliament general election. Gray won the previous contest in September 2008.
Elizabeth Anne McInnes is a British Labour Party politician and biochemist who served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Heywood and Middleton from 2014 to 2019.
Simon James Hoare is a British Conservative Party politician who has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for North Dorset since 2015. He was formerly Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Local Government from November 2023 until July 2024.
Rebecca Roseanne Long-Bailey is a British independent,formerly Labour Party politician and solicitor who has been Member of Parliament (MP) for Salford,previously Salford and Eccles,since 2015. She served in the Shadow Cabinet under Jeremy Corbyn,first as Shadow Chief Secretary to the Treasury from 2016 to 2017 and then as Shadow Business Secretary from 2017 to 2020. Under Keir Starmer,she served as Shadow Education Secretary for only two months in 2020.
Paul Daniel Williams is a British general practitioner (GP) and former Labour Party politician,who served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Stockton South from 2017 to 2019,when he lost his seat to the Conservative candidate Matt Vickers in the 2019 general election. In May 2021,Williams stood as the Labour Party candidate in the 2021 Hartlepool by-election but lost to the Conservative candidate Jill Mortimer.
Martin David Whitfield is a Scottish Labour politician and former lawyer and primary school teacher who has been a Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) for the South Scotland region and the Convener of the Standards and Procedures and Public Appointments Committee since 2021.
Kieran John Mullan is a British Conservative Party politician who is the Member of Parliament (MP) for Bexhill and Battle. He was previously the MP for Crewe and Nantwich between 2019 and 2024. He has been Shadow Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Transport since July 2024.
Ian Robert Byrne is a British independent,formely Labour politician who has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Liverpool West Derby since 2019.
Mark Andrew Ferguson is a British politician,journalist,and trade unionist who has been Member of Parliament (MP) for Gateshead Central and Whickham since the 2024 general election.
