Katherine Patricia Irene Adams,Baroness Adams of Craigielea is a Scottish Labour peer who served as the Member of Parliament for Paisley North from 1990 to 2005.
Alexander Andrew Mackay Irvine,Baron Irvine of Lairg,,known as Derry Irvine,is a Scottish lawyer and politician who served as Lord Chancellor from 1997 to 2003.
Ian Richard Kyle Paisley Jr is a former Northern Irish unionist politician. A member of the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP),he served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for North Antrim from 2010 to 2024,and was previously a member of the Northern Ireland Assembly for North Antrim from 1998 to 2010. Paisley is the DUP's Spokesperson for Digital,Culture,Media and Sports. He is a son of the DUP's founder Ian Paisley.
Peter Benjamin Mandelson,Baron Mandelson,is a British Labour Party politician who served as First Secretary of State from 2009 to 2010. He was President of the Board of Trade in 1998 and from 2008 to 2010,and the European Commissioner for Trade between 2004 and 2008. He is the president of international think tank Policy Network,honorary president of the Great Britain–China Centre,and chairman of strategic advisory firm Global Counsel. Mandelson is often referred to as a Blairite.
Charles Leslie Falconer,Baron Falconer of Thoroton,is a British Labour politician,peer and barrister who served as Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State for Justice under Prime Minister Tony Blair from 2003 to 2007.
James Norwich Arbuthnot,Baron Arbuthnot of Edrom,,is a British Conservative Party politician. He was Member of Parliament (MP) for Wanstead and Woodford from 1987 to 1997,and then MP for North East Hampshire from 1997 to 2015.
Hartley William Shawcross,Baron Shawcross,,known from 1945 to 1959 as Sir Hartley Shawcross,was an English barrister and Labour politician who served as the lead British prosecutor at the Nuremberg War Crimes tribunal. He also served as Britain's principal delegate to the United Nations immediately after the Second World War and as Attorney General for England.
John Anderson Cunningham,Baron Cunningham of Felling,PC,DL is a British politician who was a Labour Member of Parliament for over 30 years,serving for Whitehaven from 1970 to 1983 and then Copeland until the 2005 general election,and had served in the Cabinet of Tony Blair.
Desmond Henry Browne,Baron Browne of Ladyton,is a Scottish politician who served in the Cabinet of the United Kingdom under Tony Blair and Gordon Brown as Secretary of State for Defence 2006 to 2008 and Secretary of State for Scotland from 2007 to 2008. A member of the Labour Party,he was Member of Parliament (MP) for Kilmarnock and Loudoun from 1997 to 2010.
Antony Harold Newton,Baron Newton of Braintree,OBE,PC,DL was a British Conservative politician and former Cabinet member. He was the member of Parliament for Braintree from 1974 to 1997,and was later a member of the House of Lords.
David William Donald Cameron,Baron Cameron of Chipping Norton,is a British politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 2010 to 2016. After his premiership,he served as Foreign Secretary under Rishi Sunak from 2023 to 2024. Cameron was Leader of the Conservative Party from 2005 to 2016. He was Leader of the Opposition from 2005 to 2010 and Member of Parliament (MP) for Witney from 2001 to 2016. Cameron identifies as a one-nation conservative and has been associated with both economically liberal and socially liberal policies.
John Morris,Baron Morris of Aberavon,was a British politician. He was a Labour Party Member of Parliament for over 41 years,from 1959 to 2001,which included a period as Secretary of State for Wales from 1974 to 1979 and as Attorney General between 1997 and 1999. He was the last living former Labour MP who was first elected in the 1950s. He was also the last surviving member of Harold Wilson's 1974–76 cabinet,and was the longest-serving Privy Counsellor at the time of his death. His combined parliamentary service totalled over 60 years.
Ian Hedworth John Little Gilmour,Baron Gilmour of Craigmillar,was a Conservative Party politician in the United Kingdom. He was styled Sir Ian Gilmour,3rd Baronet from 1977,having succeeded to his father's baronetcy,until he became a life peer in 1992. He was Secretary of State for Defence in 1974,in the government of Edward Heath. In the government of Margaret Thatcher,he was Lord Privy Seal from 1979 to 1981.
Christopher Paget Mayhew,Baron Mayhew was a British politician who was a Labour Member of Parliament (MP) from 1945 to 1950 and from 1951 to 1974,when he left the Labour Party to join the Liberals. In 1981 Mayhew received a life peerage and was raised to the House of Lords as Baron Mayhew. He is most known for his central role in founding the Information Research Department (IRD),a secret wing of the Foreign Office dedicated to Cold War propaganda.
Peter Alan Oborne is a British journalist and broadcaster. He is the former chief political commentator of The Daily Telegraph,from which he resigned in early 2015. He is author of The Rise of Political Lying (2005),The Triumph of the Political Class (2007),and The Assault on Truth:Boris Johnson,Donald Trump and the Emergence of a New Moral Barbarism (2021),and along with Frances Weaver of the 2011 pamphlet Guilty Men. He has also authored a number of books about cricket. He writes a political column for Declassified UK,Double Down News,openDemocracy,Middle East Eye and a diary column for the Byline Times.
Sir Lynton Keith Crosby is an Australian political strategist who has managed election campaigns for right-of-centre parties in several countries.
Alfred Morris,Baron Morris of Manchester,was a British Labour Co-operative politician and disability rights campaigner.
The Cash-for-Honours scandal was a political scandal in the United Kingdom in 2006 and 2007 concerning the connection between political donations and the award of life peerages. A loophole in electoral law in the United Kingdom means that although anyone donating even small sums of money to a political party has to declare this as a matter of public record,those loaning money at commercial rates of interest did not have to make a public declaration.
Lobbying in the United Kingdom plays a significant role in the formation of legislation and a wide variety of commercial organisations,lobby groups "lobby" for particular policies and decisions by Parliament and other political organs at national,regional and local levels.
War crimes during the final stages of the Sri Lankan civil war are war crimes and crimes against humanity which the Sri Lanka Armed Forces and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam have been accused of committing during the final months of the Sri Lankan civil war in 2009. The war crimes include attacks on civilians and civilian buildings by both sides;executions of combatants and prisoners by both sides;enforced disappearances by the Sri Lankan military and paramilitary groups backed by them;sexual violence by the Sri Lankan military;the systematic denial of food,medicine,and clean water by the government to civilians trapped in the war zone;child recruitment,hostage taking,use of military equipment in the proximity of civilians and use of forced labor by the Tamil Tigers.
