Neil Gordon Kinnock,Baron Kinnock,,is a Welsh politician who served as Leader of the Opposition and Leader of the Labour Party from 1983 to 1992. He served as a Member of Parliament (MP) from 1970 to 1995,first for Bedwellty and then for Islwyn. He was Vice-President of the European Commission from 1999 to 2004. Kinnock was considered to be on the soft left of the Labour Party.
Hilary Jane Armstrong,Baroness Armstrong of Hill Top,DL is a British Labour Party politician who was the Member of Parliament (MP) for North West Durham from 1987 to 2010.
Gordon Marsden is a British Labour Party politician who served as the Member of Parliament for Blackpool South from 1997 to 2019.
Edward Samuel Miliband is a British politician serving as Shadow Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero since 2021. He has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Doncaster North since 2005. Miliband was Leader of the Labour Party and Leader of the Opposition between 2010 and 2015. Alongside his brother,Foreign Secretary David Miliband,he served in the Cabinet from 2007 to 2010 under Prime Minister Gordon Brown.
Matthew Alan Oakeshott,Baron Oakeshott of Seagrove Bay,is a British investment manager and member of the House of Lords,formerly sitting in Parliament as a Liberal Democrat.
Philip Alexander Hunt,Baron Hunt of Kings Heath,is a former health administrator and a Labour Co-operative member of the House of Lords.
Andrew Adonis,Baron Adonis,is a British Labour Party politician and journalist who served in HM Government for five years in the Blair ministry and the Brown ministry. He served as Secretary of State for Transport from 2009 to 2010,and as Chairman of the National Infrastructure Commission from 2015 to 2017. He was Chair of the European Movement,from March 2021 until December 2022 having previously served as Vice-Chairman from 2019 to 2021. He is currently a columnist for The New European.
Hon. Andrew John Glyn was an English economist,University Lecturer in Economics at the University of Oxford and Fellow and Tutor in Economics in Corpus Christi College. A Marxian economist,his research interests focused on issues of unemployment and inequality.
Roger John Liddle,Baron Liddle is a British political adviser and consultant who is principally known for being Special Adviser on European matters to the former Prime Minister Tony Blair,and President of the European Commission,JoséManuel Barroso. He also worked together with Peter Mandelson on books outlining the political philosophy of the Labour Party under Blair's leadership. He is the co-chair of the international think tank Policy Network and was Pro-Chancellor of the University of Lancaster until 2020.
David Wright Miliband is the president and chief executive officer (CEO) of the International Rescue Committee and a British Labour Party former politician. He was the Foreign Secretary from 2007 to 2010 and the Member of Parliament (MP) for South Shields in North East England from 2001 to 2013. He and his brother,Ed,were the first siblings to sit in the Cabinet simultaneously since Lord Edward and Oliver Stanley in 1938. He was a candidate for Labour Party leadership in 2010,following the departure of Gordon Brown,but was defeated by his brother and subsequently left politics.
Emma Elizabeth Reynolds is a British Labour politician who served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Wolverhampton North East from 2010 to 2019,and the Shadow Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government in 2015.
Blue Labour is a British campaign group and political faction that seeks to promote blue-collar and culturally conservative values within the British Labour Party —particularly on immigration,crime,and community spirit —while remaining committed to labour rights and left-wing economic policies. It seeks to represent a traditional working-class approach to Labour politics. Launched in 2009 as a counter to New Labour,the Blue Labour movement first rose to prominence after Labour's defeat in the 2010 general election,in which for the first time the party received fewer working-class votes than it did middle-class votes. The movement has influenced a handful of Labour MPs and frontbenchers;founder Maurice Glasman served as a close ally to Ed Miliband during his early years as Leader of the Opposition,before himself becoming a life peer in the House of Lords. The movement has also seen a resurgence of interest after the loss of red wall seats in the 2019 general election.
Ed Miliband became Leader of the Labour Party and Leader of the Opposition upon being elected to the former post on 25 September 2010. The election was triggered by Gordon Brown's resignation following the party's fall from power at the 2010 general election,which yielded a Conservative–Liberal Democrat Coalition. Miliband appointed his first Shadow Cabinet in October 2010,following the Labour Party Shadow Cabinet elections. These elections were the last such elections before they were abolished in 2011.
Pre-distribution is the idea that the state should try to prevent inequalities occurring in the first place rather than ameliorating them via tax and benefits once they have occurred,as occurs under redistribution.
Alicia Pamela Kennedy,Baroness Kennedy of Cradley,Baroness Kennedy of Southwark is a British Labour politician and member of the House of Lords.
Natalie Jessica Evans,Baroness Evans of Bowes Park,,is a British politician and member of the House of Lords. A member of the Conservative Party,she was made a life peer in 2014 and from 2016 to 2022 was Leader of the House of Lords. She was the first Leader of the House of Lords to serve under two different prime ministers since Lord Shepherd in 1974,and the longest serving Lords leader since 1951.
Andrew James Dunlop,Baron Dunlop is a British politician and life peer. From May 2015 to June 2017,he was the Under-Secretary of State for Scotland and Northern Ireland. He sits in the House of Lords on the Conservative benches.
Conor Ryan is an Irish-born UK-based independent writer and consultant,a former senior civil servant,and adviser who has been until June 2023 the Director of External Relations at the Office for Students,a non-departmental public body of the British Department for Education. He served as a special adviser and the senior education adviser to British Secretary of State for Education and Employment David Blunkett from 1997 to 2001 and then to British Prime Minister Tony Blair from 2005 to 2007.
