Winifred Ann Taylor,Baroness Taylor of Bolton,is a British politician and life peer who served in the Cabinet of the United Kingdom from 1997 to 2001. A member of the Labour Party,she was Member of Parliament (MP) for Bolton West from 1974 to 1983,and Dewsbury from 1987 to 2005.
Angela Evans Smith,Baroness Smith of Basildon is a British politician and life peer serving as Leader of the Opposition in the House of Lords since 2015. A member of the Labour and Co-operative parties,she was Member of Parliament (MP) for Basildon from 1997 to 2010.
Helene Valerie Hayman,Baroness Hayman,is a British politician who was Lord Speaker of the House of Lords in the Parliament of the United Kingdom. As a member of the Labour Party she was a Member of Parliament from 1974 to 1979. When she became an MP at age 25,she was the youngest MP of the 1974–79 Parliament. Hayman became a life peer in 1996.
Joan Christabel Jill Knight,Baroness Knight of Collingtree,was a British politician. A member of the Conservative Party,she served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Birmingham Edgbaston from 1966 to 1997. She was created a life peer as "Baroness Knight of Collingtree,of Collingtree in the County of Northamptonshire" in 1997 after she had stood down at that year's general election,and retired from the House of Lords on 24 March 2016.
Christopher Heaton-Harris is a British politician who has served as Secretary of State for Northern Ireland since 6 September 2022. A member of the Conservative Party,he has served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Daventry since 2010.
Ann Elizabeth Oldfield Butler-Sloss,Baroness Butler-Sloss,GBE,PC is a retired English judge. She was the first female Lord Justice of Appeal and was the highest-ranking female judge in the United Kingdom until 2004,when Baroness Hale was appointed to the House of Lords. Until June 2007,she chaired the inquests into the deaths of Diana,Princess of Wales,and Dodi Fayed. She stood down from that task with effect from that date,and the inquest was conducted by Lord Justice Scott Baker.
Margaret Beryl Jones,Baroness Jones of Whitchurch is a British Labour Peer and previously a trade union official and Labour politician. She was Chair of the Labour Party from 2000 to 2001.
Jennifer Elizabeth Randerson,Baroness Randerson is a Welsh Liberal Democrat member of the House of Lords. She is a former junior minister in the Wales Office serving in the Cameron–Clegg coalition. Prior to her peerage she was an Assembly Member for Cardiff Central from 1999 to 2011 when she served in the Welsh Labour-Lib Dem administration of the 2000–2003 Welsh Assembly Government.
Annabel MacNicoll Goldie,Baroness Goldie is a Scottish politician and life peer who served as Leader of the Scottish Conservative Party from 2005 to 2011 and Minister of State for Defence from 2019 to 2023. She was a Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP),as one of the additional members for the West Scotland region,from 1999 to 2016.
Constance Mary Hart,Baroness Hart of South Lanark,,also known as Dame Judith Hart,was a British Labour Party politician. She served as a Member of Parliament for 28 years,from 1959 to 1987. She served as a government minister during the 1960s and 1970s before entering the House of Lords in 1988.
Sayeeda Hussain Warsi,Baroness Warsi,is a British lawyer,politician,and member of the House of Lords who served as co-chairwoman of the Conservative Party from 2010 to 2012. She served in the Cameron–Clegg coalition,first as the Minister without portfolio between 2010 and 2012,then as the Minister of State for the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and as the Minister of State for Faith and Communities,until her resignation citing her disagreement with the Government's policy relating to the Israel–Gaza conflict in August 2014.
Michael Walton Bates,Baron Bates is a Conservative Party politician in the United Kingdom serving in the House of Lords since 2008 having previously represented the constituency of Langbaurgh in the House of Commons from 1992 to 1997.
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.
Patricia Morris,Baroness Morris of Bolton,,is a British peer and former Shadow Minister for Women and an Opposition Whip for the Conservative Party.
These are lists of people who belong to non-European ethnic minorities and have been elected as Members of the House of Commons of the United Kingdom,European Union,and other British devolved assemblies and also Members of the non-elected House of Lords.
Anne Caroline Jenkin,Baroness Jenkin of Kennington is a Conservative member of the House of Lords.
Elizabeth Rose Berridge,Baroness Berridge is a British Conservative politician and member of the House of Lords.
Tina Wendy Stowell,Baroness Stowell of Beeston,is a British Conservative politician and member of the House of Lords.
Joanna Carolyn Penn,Baroness Penn,known as JoJo Penn,is a British political advisor. She was a baroness-in-waiting from March 2020 to September 2022. Since 1 March 2024 she has been a Minister on Leave.
The frontbench of His Majesty's Loyal Opposition in the Parliament of the United Kingdom consists of the Shadow Cabinet and other official shadow ministers of the political party currently serving as the Official Opposition. The Opposition front bench provide Parliamentary opposition to the British Government front bench,and is currently the Labour Party led by Keir Starmer since April 2020.
