Tristram Julian William Hunt,is a British historian,broadcast journalist and former politician who has been Director of the Victoria and Albert Museum since 2017. He served as the Labour Member of Parliament (MP) for Stoke-on-Trent Central from 2010 to 2017,and Shadow Secretary of State for Education from 2013 to 2015.
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.
George William Stevenson is a Labour Party politician in the United Kingdom.
Mark Fisher is a British Labour Party politician. He was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Stoke-on-Trent Central from 1983 to 2010 and Minister for the Arts between 1997 and 1998.
Roger Duncan Godsiff is a British former politician who served as the Labour Member of Parliament (MP) from 1992 to 2019,for the seats of Birmingham Small Heath,Birmingham Sparkbrook and Small Heath,and Birmingham Hall Green.
Joan Lorraine Walley is a British Labour Party politician,who served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Stoke-on-Trent North from the 1987 general election until 2015.
Sir Stephen Creswell Timms is a British Labour Party politician who has been Member of Parliament (MP) for East Ham,formerly Newham North East,since 1994. He has served as Minister of State for Social Security and Disability since July 2024.
A by-election was held for the United Kingdom Parliament seat of Birmingham Hodge Hill,on 15 July 2004. The by-election was called following the resignation of Labour Party Member of Parliament (MP),Terry Davis,on 22 June 2004. Davis had been appointed as Secretary General of the Council of Europe. The by-election was held on the same day as the Leicester South by-election,which saw Labour lose the seat to the Liberal Democrats on a 21% swing.
Stoke-on-Trent South is a constituency created in 1950,and represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2024 by Allison Gardner,a Labour party representative. The local electorate returned a Labour MP in every election until 2017,when Jack Brereton became its first Conservative MP. The seat is non-rural and in the upper valley of the Trent covering half of the main city of the Potteries,a major ceramics centre since the 17th century.
Timothy James Farron is a British politician who served as Leader of the Liberal Democrats from 2015 to 2017. He has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Westmorland and Lonsdale since 2005 and is the Liberal Democrat spokesperson for Environment,Food and Rural Affairs. Before entering politics,he worked in higher education.
Chuka Harrison Umunna is a British businessman and former politician who served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Streatham from 2010 until 2019. A former member of the Labour Party,he was part of the Shadow Cabinet from 2011 to 2015. He left Labour in February 2019,when he resigned to form The Independent Group,later Change UK,along with six other MPs. Later in 2019,he left Change UK and,after a short time as an independent MP,joined the Liberal Democrats. In the 2019 general election,he failed to be re-elected,and did not return to the House of Commons.
Gavin Shuker is a British former politician who served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Luton South from 2010 to 2019. Shuker was a Labour and Co-operative Party MP before defecting to form Change UK. He then left Change UK to become an Independent politician and was defeated at the 2019 election,coming third with 9.3% of the vote.
Ruth Lauren Smeeth,Baroness Anderson of Stoke-on-Trent is a British Labour Party politician who was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Stoke-on-Trent North from 2015 until 2019. Since 2022 she has been a member of the House of Lords.
The 2017 United Kingdom general election was held on Thursday 8 June 2017,two years after the previous general election in 2015;it was the first since 1992 to be held on a day that did not coincide with any local elections. The governing Conservative Party led by the prime minister Theresa May remained the largest single party in the House of Commons but lost its small overall majority,resulting in the formation of a Conservative minority government with a confidence and supply agreement with the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) of Northern Ireland.
A by-election took place in the British parliamentary constituency of Copeland on 23 February 2017,following the resignation of Labour Member of Parliament (MP) Jamie Reed. Conservative candidate Trudy Harrison gained the seat from Labour,the first gain for a governing party in a by-election since 1982.
There was a by-election in the constituency of Stoke-on-Trent Central on 23 February 2017 following the resignation of Labour's Tristram Hunt,who became director of the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. It took place alongside a by-election in Copeland.
Jack Edgar Brereton is a British politician who was the Member of Parliament (MP) for the Stoke-on-Trent South constituency from the 2017 general election until 2024. A member of the Conservative Party,he is a former councillor on Stoke-on-Trent City Council.
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.
