Lynne Mary Jones is a British politician,who was the Labour Party Member of Parliament (MP) for Birmingham Selly Oak from 1992 until the dissolution of parliament in April 2010.
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.
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.
The Respect Party was a left-wing to far-left socialist political party active in the United Kingdom between 2004 and 2016. At the height of its success in 2007,the party had one Member of Parliament (MP) in the House of Commons and nineteen councillors in local government.
Lindsey Ann German is a British left-wing political activist. A founding member and convenor of the British anti-war organisation Stop the War Coalition,she was formerly a member of the Socialist Workers Party,sitting on its central committee and editor of its magazine,Socialist Review.
Bradford West is a constituency in West Yorkshire represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2015 by Naz Shah of the Labour Party.
Birmingham Ladywood is a constituency of part of the city of Birmingham,represented in the House of Commons since 2010 by Shabana Mahmood of the Labour Party.
Birmingham,Sparkbrook and Small Heath was a parliamentary constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It elected one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first-past-the-post system of election. The constituency was notable for having the largest percentage of Muslim voters of any UK constituency at 48.8%.
Adam Yosef is a British journalist,photojournalist and political activist.
Birmingham City Council elections are held every four years. Birmingham City Council is the local authority for the metropolitan district of Birmingham in the West Midlands,England. Since the last boundary changes in 2018,101 councillors have been elected from 69 wards. Prior to 2018 elections were held three years out of every four,with a third of the council elected each time.
Sir Albert Bore is a British nuclear physicist,academic and Labour Party politician.
The Left List,later renamed the Left Alternative,was a political party active in the United Kingdom between 2008 and 2010. A minor party,it never had any of its candidates elected at any level of UK government although it inherited several local councillors who had defected to it from the Respect Party.
George Galloway is a British politician,broadcaster,and writer who has served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Rochdale since the 2024 by-election. He has been the leader of the Workers Party of Britain since he founded it in 2019. From 1987 to 2010,and from 2012 to 2015,Galloway served as MP for four constituencies,first for the Labour Party and then from 2005 for the Respect Party,which he led from 2013 until its dissolution in 2016.
Luciana Clare Berger is a British politician who served as Member of Parliament for Liverpool Wavertree from 2010 to 2019. A member of the Labour and Co-operative parties,she was a founding member of The Independent Group,later Change UK,before joining the Liberal Democrats. Berger rejoined Labour in 2023.
On 29 March 2012,a by-election was held for the House of Commons constituency of Bradford West. It was unexpectedly won by George Galloway of the Respect Party who defeated the Labour Party candidate by a large margin in a result referred to by Galloway as the "Bradford Spring". Galloway said the election result was Bradford's "peaceful democratic uprising" version of the riots which swept through England in August 2011.
Rabina Khan is a Bangladeshi-born British writer,politician,former councillor for Shadwell and Cabinet Member for Housing in Tower Hamlets Council,community worker and author of Ayesha's Rainbow. In 2015,she unsuccessfully contested the Tower Hamlets Mayoral Election. She was the leader of the People's Alliance of Tower Hamlets,but joined the Liberal Democrats on 29 August 2018.
Rupa Asha Huq is a British Labour MP,columnist and academic. Elected as the Labour Member of Parliament (MP) for Ealing Central and Acton at the 2015 general election,she was formerly a senior lecturer in sociology at Kingston University.
Angela Rayner is a British politician serving as Deputy Leader of the Labour Party since 2020 and Shadow Deputy Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and Shadow Secretary of State for Levelling Up,Housing and Communities since 2023. Rayner has been Member of Parliament (MP) for Ashton-under-Lyne since 2015. She ideologically identifies as a socialist and as being part of Labour's soft left.
Naseem Shah is a British Labour Party politician. She was elected at the 2015 general election as Member of Parliament (MP) for Bradford West,winning the seat from George Galloway of the Respect Party. She served in the Opposition frontbench from 2018 to 2023,most recently as Shadow Minister for Crime Reduction.
The 2021 West Midlands Mayoral Election was held on 6 May 2021 to elect the mayor of the West Midlands,on the same day as other local elections across England and Wales,including councillors in six of its seven boroughs and the police and crime commissioner for the West Midlands city region. This was the second election for the post,which had its first election in 2017 due to the Cities and Local Government Devolution Act 2016. The mayor was elected using the supplementary vote system. The election was originally due to take place in May 2020,but was postponed due to the coronavirus pandemic.
