Alan Thomas Howarth,Baron Howarth of Newport,,is a British Labour Party politician and life peer who was a member of Parliament (MP) from 1983 to 2005. First elected as a Conservative before defecting to Labour in 1995,he is one of few politicians in recent years to have served as a minister in both Labour and Conservative governments. He currently sits in the House of Lords as a Labour life peer.
William Richard Fletcher-Vane,2nd Baron Inglewood,,usually called Richard Inglewood,is a former Conservative Party politician in the United Kingdom. Lord Inglewood is a non-affiliated member of the House of Lords,a barrister and a chartered surveyor. He was a Member of the European Parliament from 1989 to 2004,and a junior minister in the UK government from 1995 to 1997.
Peter Temple-Morris,Baron Temple-Morris was a British politician. He was elected as the Conservative Member of Parliament (MP) for Leominster in 1974;he stood down in 2001 after changing parties. He sat in the House of Lords as a Labour peer.
The House of Lords Act 1999 is an act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom that reformed the House of Lords,one of the chambers of Parliament. The Act was given Royal Assent on 11 November 1999. For centuries,the House of Lords had included several hundred members who inherited their seats;the Act removed such a right. However,as part of a compromise,the Act allowed ninety-two hereditary peers to remain in the House. Another ten were created life peers to enable them to remain in the House.
Sally Rachel Hamwee,Baroness Hamwee is a Liberal Democrat politician and their Lead Home Affairs Spokesperson in the House of Lords. She is a Life Peer and former chair of the London Assembly.
Robert Michael James Gascoyne-Cecil,7th Marquess of Salisbury,Baron Gascoyne-Cecil,is a British Conservative politician. From 1979 to 1987 he represented South Dorset in the House of Commons,and in the 1990s he was Leader of the House of Lords under his courtesy title of Viscount Cranborne. Lord Salisbury lives in one of England's largest historic houses,the 17th-century Hatfield House in Hertfordshire,and currently serves as Chancellor of the University of Hertfordshire.
The 2004 European Parliament election was the United Kingdom's part of the wider 2004 European Parliament election which was held between 10 and 13 June 2004 in the 25 member states of the European Union. The United Kingdom's part of this election was held on Thursday 10 June 2004. The election also coincided with the 2004 local elections and the London Assembly and mayoral elections. In total,78 Members of the European Parliament were elected from the United Kingdom using proportional representation.
Martin John Callanan,Baron Callanan is a British Conservative Party politician. He was Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for North East England from 1999 to 2014 and Chairman of the European Conservatives and Reformists group from 2011 to 2014. Callanan failed his bid to win re-election in the 2014 European Parliament elections,becoming the first sitting chairman of a European parliamentary group to lose his seat. On 8 August 2014,it was announced that he would be made a Conservative life peer in the House of Lords.
William Francis Newton Dunn is a British politician who served as a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) from 1979 to 1994,1999 to 2014 and again from 2019 until the UK's withdrawal from the EU in 2020. He resigned from the Conservative Party in 2000 in protest of its euroscepticism and joined the Liberal Democrats.
Timothy John Robert Kirkhope,Baron Kirkhope of Harrogate is a British lawyer and politician who previously served as Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for Yorkshire and the Humber for the Conservative Party. After serving for ten years as Member of Parliament (MP) for Leeds North East,he was first elected to the European Parliament in 1999. Between December 2004 and November 2010 he was leader of the Conservative delegation for a total of six years. He was the chairman of the Conservative Friends of Israel's Europe grouping,the European Conservatives Spokesman on Justice and Home Affairs,and a member of the European Parliament's U.S Delegation. In 2016,he was created a life peer.
Alfred Dubs,Baron Dubs is a British Labour politician and former Member of Parliament.
Cambridge University Liberal Association (CULA) is the student branch of the Liberal Democrats for students at Cambridge University.
David Campbell Bannerman is a British politician who served as Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for the East of England from 2009 to 2019. He is currently Chairman of the Conservative Democratic Organisation and The Freedom Association. A member of the Conservative Party,he previously served as Deputy Leader of UK Independence Party (UKIP) from 2006 until 2010,when he was replaced by Paul Nuttall.
John Edward Tomlinson,Baron Tomlinson was a British Labour Co-operative politician. He served as a life peer in the House of Lords from 1998 until his death,and had previously been a Member of Parliament from 1974 to 1979,and a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) from 1984 to 1999.
Stanley Clinton Clinton-Davis,Baron Clinton-Davis,was a British politician and solicitor. A member of the Labour Party,he served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Hackney Central from 1970 to 1983,and was a minister in the Labour governments of Harold Wilson,James Callaghan and Tony Blair. He was European Commissioner in the Delors Commission (1985–1989). In 1990,he became a life peer,sitting on the Labour benches in the House of Lords until his retirement in 2018.
Peter Derek Truscott,Baron Truscott is a British petroleum and mining consultant,independent member of the House of Lords and writer. He was a Labour Member of the European Parliament (MEP) from 1994 to 1999 and was elevated to the peerage in 2004. He has written on Russia,defence and energy,and works with a variety of companies in the field of non-renewable resource extraction.
Jacqueline Foster,Baroness Foster of Oxton,is a British Conservative politician and a former Member of the European Parliament for the North West England region.
William Legge,10th Earl of Dartmouth,styled Viscount Lewisham from 1962 to 1997,is a British politician and hereditary peer,usually known as William Dartmouth.
Charles Towneley Strachey,4th Baron O'Hagan,is a British Conservative party politician.
The 2019 European Parliament election was the United Kingdom's component of the 2019 European Parliament election. It was held on Thursday 23 May 2019 and the results announced on Sunday 26 and Monday 27 May 2019,after all the other EU countries had voted. This was the United Kingdom's final participation in a European Parliament election before leaving the European Union on 31 January 2020;it was also the last election to be held under the provisions of the European Parliamentary Elections Act 2002 before its repeal under the European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018,and was the first European election in the United Kingdom since 1999 to be held on a day that did not coincide with any local elections. This was the first of two national elections held in the United Kingdom in 2019;the 2019 general election occurred six-and-a-half months later in December 2019.
