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 has been Member of Parliament (MP) for Exeter since 1997. Before entering politics he worked as a BBC Radio reporter.
Robert William Ainsworth is a British Labour Party politician who was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Coventry North East from 1992 to 2015,and was the Secretary of State for Defence from 2009 to 2010. Following the general election in 2010 he was the Shadow Defence Secretary,but was replaced by Jim Murphy following the election of Labour leader Ed Miliband.
Richard Michael Bacon is a British politician who has served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for South Norfolk since 2001. He is a member of the Conservative Party.
Alun Edward Michael is a Welsh Labour and Co-operative politician serving as South Wales Police and Crime Commissioner since 2012. He served as Secretary of State for Wales from 1998 to 1999 and then as the first First Secretary of Wales and Leader of Welsh Labour from 1999 to 2000.
David Michael Chaytor is a former British Labour Party politician,who was the member of parliament (MP) for Bury North from 1997 to 2010. He was the first member of Parliament to be sentenced following the United Kingdom Parliamentary expenses scandal of 2009.
Jonathan Simon Djanogly is an English politician,solicitor,and Conservative Party Member of Parliament (MP) for Huntingdon since 2001. Djanogly has been Trade and Industry Spokesman shadowing the Department for Business,Enterprise and Regulatory Reform,Shadow Solicitor General for England and Wales and was Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State at the Ministry of Justice from 2010 to 2012.
Elliot Anthony Morley is a British former Labour Party politician,who was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Glanford and Scunthorpe from 1987 to 1997 and then Scunthorpe from 1997 to 2010. In 2009,he was accused by The Daily Telegraph of continuing to claim parliamentary expenses for a mortgage that had already been repaid. Morley was prosecuted and on 7 April 2011 pleaded guilty in Southwark Crown Court to two counts of false accounting,involving over £30,000. On 20 May 2011,he was sentenced to 16 months' imprisonment. He was released from prison on 20 September 2011 having served a quarter of his sentence.
James Gray,CStJ is a British politician who has served as the Conservative Member of Parliament (MP) for North Wiltshire since 1997.
Timothy Paul Loughton,is a British politician and former banker who has served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for East Worthing and Shoreham since the 1997 general election. A member of the Conservative Party,he was Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Children and Families from 2010 to 2012 and has twice served as the Acting Chairman of the Home Affairs Select Committee in 2016 and 2021,following the respective resignations of Keith Vaz and Yvette Cooper.
James Mark Dakin Purnell is a British broadcasting executive and former Labour Party politician who served as Work and Pensions Secretary and Culture Secretary in the Brown Government from 2007 to 2009. In October 2016,he became BBC's Director of Radio,in addition to his other role as the BBC's Director of Strategy and Digital,a job he had held since March 2013. In 2020 he left the BBC to become vice-chancellor of University of the Arts London.
John Mann,Baron Mann is a British independent politician who is a Member of the House of Lords. Before being granted a peerage,he was the Labour Party Member of Parliament (MP) for Bassetlaw from the 2001 general election until 2019.
Mark Richard Tami is a Welsh Labour Party politician who has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Alyn and Deeside since 2001.
Joan Marie Ryan is a British politician who served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Enfield North from 1997 to 2010 and from 2015 to 2019. She was first elected as a Labour Party MP but later defected to join Change UK.
Iain David Wright is a British Labour Party politician who was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Hartlepool from 2004 to 2017,and served also as the Chairman of Business Innovation and Skills Committee. He was previously Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State with responsibility for apprenticeships,and 14 to 19 reform in the Department for Children,Schools and Families until 11 May 2010.
High Peak is a parliamentary constituency represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2019 by Robert Largan,a Conservative.
Philip Thomas Hollobone is a British Conservative Party politician and former investment banker. He has been the Member of Parliament for Kettering since the 2005 general election.
The United Kingdom parliamentary expenses scandal was a major political scandal that emerged in 2009,concerning expenses claims made by members of the British Parliament in both the House of Commons and the House of Lords over the previous years. The disclosure of widespread misuse of allowances and expenses permitted to members of Parliament (MPs) aroused widespread anger among the UK public and resulted in a large number of resignations,sackings,de-selections and retirement announcements together with public apologies and the repayment of expenses. Several members or former members of both the House of Commons,and members of the House of Lords,were prosecuted and sentenced to terms of imprisonment.
Guto ap Owain Bebb is a Welsh politician and former business consultant who served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Aberconwy from 2010 to 2019,having previously lost elections to the Welsh Assembly and the House of Commons. He served as Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State at the Wales Office in 2016–2018 and as Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Defence Procurement at the Ministry of Defence from January 2018 until he resigned in July 2018. First elected as a Conservative,Bebb had the Conservative whip removed on 3 September 2019 and served his remaining months as an independent.
Andrew Russell Bingham is a British Conservative Party politician and former Member of Parliament (MP). He was first elected as the MP for High Peak in Derbyshire at the 2010 general election,gaining the seat from Labour. Bingham was appointed the Parliamentary Private Secretary to Minister of State for the Armed Forces Mark Francois MP in July 2014. He lost his seat to the Labour candidate,Ruth George,at the 2017 general election.
