Karen Patricia Buck is a British politician serving as Member of Parliament (MP) for Westminster North,previously Regent's Park and Kensington North,since 1997. A member of the Labour Party,she was Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Transport from 2005 to 2006 and served as Shadow Minister for Social Security from 2020 to 2023.
Margaret Ann Coffey is a British politician who was Member of Parliament (MP) for Stockport from 1992 to 2019. A former member of the Labour Party,she defected to form Change UK.
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.
Ann Black OBE is a British political activist who serves as a member of the National Executive Committee (NEC) of the Labour Party. She served from 2000 to 2018 and was re-elected in November 2020. She was chair of the NEC from 2009 to 2010,and has also served as chair of the NEC's disputes panel.
Stockport is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2019 by Navendu Mishra of the Labour Party.
Batley and Spen is a constituency in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament. The current MP is Kim Leadbeater,a Labour politician,elected in a 2021 by-election by a 323-vote margin. The seat has returned Labour MPs since the 1997 general election.
Sharon Hodgson is a British politician serving as Member of Parliament (MP) for Washington and Sunderland West,previously Gateshead East and Washington West,since 2005. A member of the Labour Party,she has chaired the Finance Committee since 2023.
Katy Clark,is a British politician and life peer who has served as a member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) for the West Scotland region since 2021. A member of the Labour Party,she was Member of Parliament (MP) for North Ayrshire and Arran from 2005 to 2015.
Kevin Denis Brennan is a Welsh Labour politician serving as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Cardiff West since 2001. He served as a Minister of State at both the Department for Business,Innovation and Skills and the Department for Children,Schools and Families from 2009 to 2010. Brennan held several junior ministerial offices from 2006 to 2009 at the Treasury,Cabinet Office and Department for Children,Schools and Families. In opposition,he served in various shadow ministerial positions from 2010 to 2020 as a Shadow Minister for BIS,Education,and Digital,Culture,Media and Sport (DCMS). He has been Shadow Minister for Victims and Sentencing since September 2023.
Spen Valley was a parliamentary constituency in the valley of the River Spen in the West Riding of Yorkshire. It returned one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.
Catherine Jane Smith is a British politician who has served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Lancaster and Fleetwood since 2015. A member of the Labour Party,she was a member of the shadow cabinets led by Jeremy Corbyn and Keir Starmer from 2016 to 2021 as Shadow Secretary of State,previously Shadow Minister,for Young People and Democracy.
Melanie Onn is a British former politician who served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Great Grimsby from 2015 to 2019. A member of the Labour Party,she previously served as Shadow Deputy Leader of the House of Commons from September 2015 to June 2016 and Shadow Minister for Housing from July 2017 to March 2019. At the 2019 general election,she lost the seat to the Conservative candidate Lia Nici-Townend.
Paula Michelle Sherriff is a British Labour politician who served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Dewsbury from 2015 to 2019.
The 2016 Labour Party leadership election was called when a challenge to Jeremy Corbyn as Leader of the Labour Party arose following criticism of his approach to the Remain campaign in the referendum on membership of the European Union and questions about his leadership of the party.
Deselection in the UK Labour Party is the process by which support for an MP is withdrawn by their local party meaning that the MP is unable to stand in a forthcoming general election with the support of the party.
The red wall is a term used in British politics to describe the UK Parliament constituencies in the Midlands and Northern England that historically supported the Labour Party. At the 2019 United Kingdom general election,many of these parliamentary seats were won by the Conservative Party,with the media describing the red wall as having "turned blue".
The Workers Party of Britain (WPB),also called the Workers Party of Great Britain (WPGB) or Workers Party GB,is a socialist and socially conservative political party in the United Kingdom,formed in December 2019 and led by George Galloway,the Member of Parliament for Rochdale since a 2024 by-election.
A by-election was held in the UK parliamentary constituency of Batley and Spen on 1 July 2021,following the resignation of the previous Member of Parliament (MP) Tracy Brabin,who was elected Mayor of West Yorkshire on 10 May. Under the devolution agreement,the position holds the powers and responsibilities of a police and crime commissioner,meaning the occupant of the office cannot simultaneously sit as an MP. The by-election was the fourth of the 58th Parliament,elected in 2019.
Kim Michele Leadbeater is a British Labour Party politician who has served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Batley and Spen since 2021.
