John Selwyn Gummer,Baron Deben,is a British Conservative Party politician,formerly the Member of Parliament (MP) for Suffolk Coastal and now a member of the House of Lords. He was Chairman of the Conservative Party from 1983 to 1985 and held various government posts including Secretary of State for the Environment from 1993 to 1997.
Alan Gordon Barraclough Haselhurst,Baron Haselhurst,,is a British Conservative Party politician who served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Saffron Walden from 1977 to 2017,having previously represented Middleton and Prestwich from 1970 to February 1974. Haselhurst was Chairman of Ways and Means from 14 May 1997 to 8 June 2010,and later Chairman of the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association between 2011 and 2014. The oldest Conservative MP to stand down at the 2017 general election,he was created a life peer on 22 June 2018,sitting in the House of Lords as Baron Haselhurst.
John Rhodes Horam,Baron Horam is a Conservative politician in the United Kingdom. He represented three parties in Parliament –originally Labour,he defected to the SDP on its foundation in 1981,then to the Conservatives in 1987 –and served as a Minister in both Labour and Conservative governments. On 4 September 2013,he was created a working life peer as Baron Horam of Grimsargh in the County of Lancashire. He is a founder and vice chair of the Common Sense Group of Conservative parliamentarians.
Arthur Christopher John Soames,Baron Soames,was a British Conservative politician who served as a European Commissioner and the last Governor of Southern Rhodesia. He was previously Member of Parliament (MP) for Bedford from 1950 to 1966. He held several government posts and attained Cabinet rank.
Robin Corbett,Baron Corbett of Castle Vale was a British Labour Party politician and journalist.
John Granville Morrison,1st Baron Margadale,TD,DL was a British landowner and Conservative Party politician. An MP from 1942 to 1965,he notably served as Chairman of the 1922 Committee between 1955 and 1964. He was the last non-royal person to receive a hereditary barony.
Paul Myners,Baron Myners,was a British businessman and politician. In October 2008 he was elevated to the House of Lords as a life peer and was appointed City Minister in the Labour Government of Gordon Brown,serving until May 2010. As City Minister Myners was responsible for overseeing the financial services sector during the 2007–2008 financial crisis and its aftermath,including leading the controversial 2008 United Kingdom bank rescue package. Myners sat in the House of Lords as a Labour peer until 2014,resigning to become a non-affiliated member before joining the crossbench group in 2015.
Harry Ewing,Baron Ewing of Kirkford,was a Labour politician in Scotland. He served as a Member of Parliament (MP) for 21 years,from a by-election in 1971 until the 1992 general election,when he became a life peer. He served as a junior minister in the Scottish Office from 1974 to 1979,responsible for devolution,and later chaired the Scottish Constitutional Convention from 1989 to 1996.
Oonagh Anne McDonald is a British academic,businesswoman,and former Labour Party politician.
George Rodgers was a British Labour Party politician.
Alan Lee WilliamsOBE is a former president of the Atlantic Treaty Association,a British Labour Party politician,writer and visiting professor of politics at Queen Mary University of London.
Frank Ashcroft Judd,Baron Judd,was a British Labour politician. He was a Senior Fellow of Saferworld NGO from 1994 to 2002,and from 2002 to 2015,a trustee. In 2007,he became a member of the advisory board at the Centre for Human Rights,and from 2014 to 2015,a member of the Commission on Diplomacy,at the London School of Economics. He was a member of the Unite and GMB trade unions.
Harmar Harmar-Nicholls,Baron Harmar-Nicholls,known as Sir Harmar Nicholls,1st Baronet,from 1960 to 1975,was a British Conservative Party politician.
Richard Frederick Wood,Baron Holderness,,was a British Conservative politician who held numerous ministerial positions from 1955 to 1974. He was distinctive in having lost both his legs in action in North Africa during World War II.
William Howie,Baron Howie of Troon,known as Will Howie,was a British Labour Party politician and Member of Parliament (MP).
John Derek Page,Baron Whaddon,was a British politician and export agent/consultant.
The 1939 Westminster Abbey by-election was a parliamentary by-election held on 17 May 1939 for the British House of Commons constituency of Westminster Abbey in London.
David Anthony Freud,Baron Freud,is a British politician,life peer,and former investment banker who served as Minister for Welfare Reform from 2010 to 2016. Before he joined the Conservative Party,he was vice-chairman of investment banking at UBS and a government adviser on welfare reform.
The 1943 Newark by-election was held on 8 June 1943. The by-election was held due to the succession to the peerage of the incumbent Conservative MP,William Cavendish-Bentinck. It was won by the Conservative candidate Sidney Shephard.
The Common Sense Group is an informal group of MPs in the British Conservative Party. TheGuardian described it as a hard-right group that was sympathetic to culture wars. It was created in 2020,inspired by the European Research Group,a Eurosceptic Conservative faction. In 2021,it published a manifesto,Common Sense:Conservative Thinking for a Post-Liberal Age.
