Percival Noel James Patterson,,popularly known as P.J. Patterson,is a Jamaican former politician who served as the sixth Prime Minister of Jamaica from 1992 to 2006. He served in office for 14 years,making him the longest-serving prime minister in Jamaica's history. He was the leader of the People's National Party from 1992 to 2006.
Nicholas Hugh Brown is a British Independent politician who has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Newcastle upon Tyne East since 1983,making him the fifth longest serving MP in the House of Commons. He is the longest serving Chief Whip of the Labour Party,holding the position in three separate periods under six Labour leaders –Tony Blair,Gordon Brown,Harriet Harman,Ed Miliband,Jeremy Corbyn and Keir Starmer. He also held several ministerial positions whilst his party was in government from 1997 until 2010. On 26 May 2021,Brown was elected as chair of the Finance Committee. Brown sits in the House of Commons as an independent,having had the whip removed in September 2022,triggered by an investigation into undisclosed matters affecting his Labour membership.
The Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) is one of the two major political parties in Jamaica,the other being the People's National Party (PNP). While its name might suggest that it is a social democratic party,the JLP is actually a conservative party.
Ivan Lewis is a British politician who served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Bury South from 1997 to 2019,initially as a member of the Labour Party then as an independent from 2017.
David Francis Caygill is a former New Zealand politician. Caygill was born and raised in Christchurch. He entered politics in 1971 as Christchurch's youngest city councillor at the age of 22. He served as a Member of Parliament (MP) from 1978 to 1996,representing the Labour Party. A supporter of Rogernomics,he served as Minister of Finance between 1988 and 1990. From 2010 to 2019,he was one of the government-appointed commissioners at Environment Canterbury.
Orette Bruce Golding is a former Jamaican politician who served as eighth Prime Minister of Jamaica from 11 September 2007 to 23 October 2011. He is a member of the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP),which he led from 2005 to his resignation in 2011.
Andy Kerr is a Scottish politician who served as Minister for Finance and Public Services from 2001 to 2004 and Minister for Health and Community Care from 2004 to 2007. A member of the Scottish Labour Party,he was Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) for the East Kilbride constituency from 1999 to 2011.
David Gregory Pisoni is a South Australian politician. He has been a member of the South Australian House of Assembly since 2006,representing the electorate of Unley for the South Australian Division of the Liberal Party of Australia. Pisoni served as the Minister for Industry and Skills in the Marshall Ministry between March 2018 and March 2022.
Jeff Smith is a British Labour Party politician serving as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Manchester Withington since 2015,and the Shadow Minister for Clean Power and Consumers since September 2023. A former Manchester City Councillor,he served as a senior opposition whip in Parliament from 2015 to 2021,and Shadow Minister for Local Government from May to 4 December 2021.
Grant Murray Robertson is a New Zealand politician and member of the Labour Party who has served as the minister of finance since 2017 and served as the 19th deputy prime minister of New Zealand from 2020 to 2023. He has been the member of Parliament (MP) for Wellington Central since 2008.
Christopher Tufton is a Jamaican politician. A member of the governing Jamaica Labour Party,and Jamaica's Minister of Health and Wellness. He previously served as the Minister of Industry,Investment and Commerce from July 2011 to December 2011,having previously served as the Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries since 2007. Tufton served as the Member of Parliament for parliamentary constituency St. Elizabeth South Western from 2007 up until his defeat in 2011. In 2016 Tufton won the St. Catherine West Central seat against the PNP's Clinton Clarke and thus being returned to the Lower House.
Daryl Wesley Phillip Vaz is a Jamaican politician who is the Labour MP for Portland Western. He was the Minister of Information and Telecommunications in Jamaica from March 2009 to January 2016. His party lost the election in 2011 and Vaz served as opposition spokesman on Telecommunications. Vaz is currently Minister without Portfolio in the Ministry of Economic Growth and Job Creation,with responsibility for land,environment,climate change and investments,since the Jamaica Labour Party returned to government in March 2016. He also serves as Member of Parliament for the constituency of Portland Parish Western Division.
Dr. Dion George is a South African politician,the Shadow Minister of Finance,and a Member of Parliament for the opposition Democratic Alliance (DA). He serves as a member–elected Trustee and Chair of the Investment Sub–Committee of the Political Office Bearers Pension Fund and in the DA's national leadership as Federal Finance Chair. He is a member of the Party’s Federal Council,Federal Executive and National Management Committee.
Jonathan Neil Reynolds is a British politician who is currently serving as Shadow Secretary of State for Business and Trade. A member of Labour Co-op,he has also been Member of Parliament (MP) for Stalybridge and Hyde since 2010.
Peter PhillipsMP is a Jamaican politician who is currently the MP for Saint Andrew East Central.
Peter Murcott Bunting,MP was the fifth National Security Minister of Jamaica and the Former Member of Parliament representing the constituency of Central Manchester. Bunting was the General Secretary of the People's National Party,a position which he has held from January 2008 to January 2014. In the 2020 People's National Party leadership election,Bunting was the lead contender in the polls before the PNP's stunning defeat in the 2020 Jamaican general election,in which he lost his Manchester Central seat in Jamaica's parliament.
Phillip Paulwell is a Jamaican politician. Paulwell is the current Member of Parliament for the constituency of Kingston East and Port Royal and former Minister of Science,Technology,Energy and Mining STEM in the People's National Party administration,which has formed the Government of Jamaica following the party's electoral victory in the December 2011 General Elections.
Fayval Shirley Williams is a Jamaican politician who is the Minister of Education,Youth and Information and the Member of Parliament for the St Andrew Eastern constituency. Williams had previously been the minister in the Ministry of Science,Energy and Technology as well as the minister without portfolio in the Ministry of Finance and the Public Service. She is the first female to be a minister in the Ministry of Finance and the Public Service,and also the first female minister of science,energy and technology. In June 2014,Fayval Williams was named as a member of the Jamaica Labour Party's Economic Advisory Council.
Horace Washington Dalley is a Jamaican educator and politician,representing the People's National Party (PNP). He was Member of Parliament (MP) for the constituency of Clarendon Northern,serving from 1989 to 2007,and again from 2011 to 2020. He served as Minister of Land and Environment from 2001 to 2002,Minister of Labour and Social Security from 2002 to 2006,Minister of Health from 2006 to 2007 and again from 2015 to 2016.
