Folkestone is a port town on the English Channel,in Kent,south-east England. The town lies on the southern edge of the North Downs at a valley between two cliffs. It was an important harbour,shipping port,and fashionable coastal resort for most of the 19th and mid-20th centuries.
Michael Howard,Baron Howard of Lympne is a British politician who was Leader of the Conservative Party and Leader of the Opposition from November 2003 to December 2005. He previously held cabinet positions in the governments of Margaret Thatcher and John Major,including Secretary of State for Employment,Secretary of State for the Environment and Home Secretary.
John Robert Cryer,Baron Cryer,is a British politician. A member of the Labour Party,he was previously the Member of Parliament (MP) for Hornchurch from 1997 to 2005 and the MP for Leyton and Wanstead from 2010 to 2024. Cryer was Chair of the Parliamentary Labour Party from 2015 to 2024,and has been a lord-in-waiting in the House of Lords since 2024.
Sir Anthony Joseph Lloyd was a British Labour politician. He served as a member of Parliament (MP) for 36 years,making him one of the longest-serving MPs in recent history. He served as MP for Stretford from 1983 to 1997,Manchester Central from 1997 to 2012,and represented Rochdale from 2017 until his death in 2024. He was Greater Manchester Police and Crime Commissioner between 2012 and 2017 and served as the interim Mayor of Greater Manchester in his last two years in the role.
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.
Folkestone and Hythe is a local government district in Kent,England. It lies in the south-east of the county,on the coast of the English Channel. The district was formed in 1974 and was originally named Shepway after one of the ancient lathes of Kent,which had covered a similar area. The district was renamed in 2018. The council is based in Folkestone,the district's largest town. The district also includes the towns of Hawkinge,Hythe,Lydd and New Romney,along with numerous villages and surrounding rural areas.
John Morris,Baron Morris of Aberavon,was a British politician. He was a Labour Party Member of Parliament for over 41 years,from 1959 to 2001,which included a period as Secretary of State for Wales from 1974 to 1979 and as Attorney General between 1997 and 1999. He was the last living former Labour MP who was first elected in the 1950s. He was also the last surviving member of Harold Wilson's 1974–76 cabinet,and was the longest-serving Privy Counsellor at the time of his death. His combined parliamentary service totalled over 60 years.
Giles Heneage Radice,Baron Radice,was a British Labour Party politician and author. He served as a Member of Parliament (MP) from 1973 to 2001,representing part of County Durham,and then as a life peer in the House of Lords from 2001 until shortly before his death in 2022.
Andrew Francis Slaughter is a British Labour Party politician who is currently serving as Member of Parliament (MP) for Hammersmith and Chiswick,and before that,Hammersmith and Ealing,Acton and Shepherd's Bush,since 2005. Prior to his election to Parliament,he had served as Leader of the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham Council.
Folkestone and Hythe is a constituency in Kent represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2024 by Tony Vaughan,a Labour MP.
Emily Anne Thornberry,Lady Nugee is a British Labour politician who has been Member of Parliament (MP) for Islington South and Finsbury since 2005. She served as Shadow Attorney General for England and Wales from 2021 until the 2024 UK general election,and previously from 2011 to 2014. Thornberry has also served in a number of other senior positions on Labour's front bench,namely as Shadow Foreign Secretary from 2016 to 2020,Shadow First Secretary of State from 2017 to 2020 and Shadow Secretary of State for International Trade from 2020 to 2021.
Ashford is a constituency in Kent created in 1885 and represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2024 by Sojan Joseph of the Labour Party.
Harriet Bronwen Yeo is a British trade unionist,a former Treasurer and President of Transport Salaried Staffs' Association (TSSA),and a UK Independence Party (UKIP) politician who stood unsuccessfully for parliament in Folkestone and Hythe at the 2015 general election.
Anthony Edward Timpson,is a British politician who served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Eddisbury in Cheshire from 2019 to 2024. He is a member of the Conservative Party.
James Rowan Chatterton Dickson is a British Labour Co-op politician who currently serves as the local Councillor for Herne Hill &Loughborough Junction for over 20 years,and the Member of Parliament (MP) for Dartford since 2024. He was also Leader of Lambeth Council between 1994 and 2000.
Simon Christopher Danczuk is a British author and former Member of Parliament (MP) who represented the constituency of Rochdale between 2010 and 2017. Elected as a member of the Labour Party,he was suspended from the party in 2015 after it emerged he had exchanged explicit messages with a 17-year-old girl. He has co-written two books,Smile for the Camera:The Double Life of Cyril Smith and Scandal at Dolphin Square. He was the Reform UK candidate in the 2024 Rochdale by-election,which was later won by Workers Party of Britain leader George Galloway. He came sixth behind Liberal Democrats,Labour,Conservatives and Independent candidate David Tully.
Damian Noel Thomas Collins is a British Conservative Party politician who formerly served as a junior Minister for Tech and the Digital Economy in the Department for Digital,Culture,Media and Sport between July and October 2022. He served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Folkestone and Hythe from 2010 to 2024.
Following the resignation of the sitting MP Alun Michael on 22 October 2012,a by-election for the Cardiff South and Penarth Westminster constituency was held on 15 November 2012.
Stephen John Doughty is a Welsh Labour Co-op politician who has served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Cardiff South and Penarth since 2012. He has served as Minister of State for Europe,North America and Overseas Territories since July 2024.
Florence Dauta Eshalomi is a British politician who has served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Vauxhall and Camberwell Green since 2019. A Member of the Labour and Co-operative parties,she was Member of the London Assembly (AM) for Lambeth and Southwark from 2016 to 2021. After the Vauxhall constituency was abolished she was elected as the MP for the newly created Vauxhall and Camberwell Green constituency in the 2024 general election.
