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,judge and political figure who served as Lord Chancellor under his former pupil barrister,Tony Blair.
Ian Richard Kyle Paisley Jr is a British unionist politician. He is a member of the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP). He has served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for North Antrim since the 2010 general election. Previously he was a member of the Northern Ireland Assembly for North Antrim from 1998 to 2010. Paisley is a son of the DUP's founder Ian Paisley.
Charles Leslie Falconer,Baron Falconer of Thoroton,is a British Labour peer and barrister who served as Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State for Justice under Prime Minister Tony Blair from 2003 to 2007. He is the only known person to have served as Solicitor General as a peer.
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.
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.
Douglas Martin Hogg,3rd Viscount Hailsham,Baron Hailsham of Kettlethorpe,is a British politician and barrister. A member of the Conservative Party he served in the Cabinet as Minister of Agriculture,Fisheries and Food from 1995 to 1997,and was a Member of Parliament (MP) from 1979 to 2010.
Winifred Ann Taylor,Baroness Taylor of Bolton,is a British politician and life peer who served as Minister for International Defence and Security from 2008 to 2010. A member of the Labour Party,she was Member of Parliament (MP) for Bolton West from 1974 to 1983 and for Dewsbury from 1987 to 2005.
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 is a British politician and lobbyist who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 2010 to 2016 and Leader of the Conservative Party from 2005 to 2016. He was Member of Parliament (MP) for Witney from 2001 to 2016. He identifies as a one-nation conservative,and has been associated with both economically liberal and socially liberal policies.
David Arthur Russell Howell,Baron Howell of Guildford,is a British Conservative Party politician,journalist,and economic consultant. Having been successively Secretary of State for Energy and then for Transport under Margaret Thatcher,Howell has more recently been a Minister of State in the Foreign Office from the election in 2010 until the reshuffle of 2012. He has served as Chair of the House of Lords International Relations Committee since May 2016. Along with William Hague,Sir George Young and Kenneth Clarke,he is one of the few Cabinet ministers from the 1979–97 governments who continued to hold high office in the party,being its deputy leader in the House of Lords until 2010. His daughter,Frances,was married to the former Chancellor of the Exchequer,George Osborne.
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,The Triumph of the Political Class,and The Assault on Truth:Boris Johnson,Donald Trump and the Emergence of a New Moral Barbarism,and along with Frances Weaver of the pamphlet Guilty Men. He writes a political column for 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.
Conservative Friends of Israel (CFI) is a British parliamentary group affiliated to the Conservative Party,which is dedicated to strengthening business,cultural and political ties between the United Kingdom and Israel,as well as between the British Conservative Party and the Israeli Likud party.
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.
There were war crimes and crimes against humanity that were committed by the Sri Lankan military and the rebel Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam during the Sri Lankan Civil War,particularly during the final months of the Eelam War IV phase 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.
Jonathan Clive Marks,Baron Marks of Henley-on-Thames,is a British barrister and Liberal Democrat life peer in the House of Lords.
Vasantha Senanayake is a Sri Lankan politician who was a member of the Parliament of Sri Lanka. He belongs to the United National Party. He is a great grandson of D. S. Senanayake and cousin of Ruwan Wijewardene.
