Nigel Lawson,Baron Lawson of Blaby,was a British politician and journalist. A member of the Conservative Party,he served as Member of Parliament for Blaby from 1974 to 1992,and served in Margaret Thatcher's Cabinet from 1981 to 1989. Prior to entering the Cabinet,he served as the Financial Secretary to the Treasury from May 1979 until his promotion to Secretary of State for Energy. He was appointed Chancellor of the Exchequer in June 1983 and served until his resignation in October 1989. In both Cabinet posts,Lawson was a key proponent of Thatcher's policies of privatisation of several key industries.
John Anderson Cunningham,Baron Cunningham of Felling,PC,DL is a British politician who was a Labour Member of Parliament for over 30 years,serving for Whitehaven from 1970 to 1983 and then Copeland until the 2005 general election,and had served in the Cabinet of Tony Blair.
George Samuel Knatchbull Young,Baron Young of Cookham,,known as Sir George Young,6th Baronet from 1960 to 2015,is a British Conservative Party politician who served as a Member of Parliament (MP) from 1974 to 2015,having represented Ealing Acton from 1974 to 1997 and North West Hampshire from 1997. He has served in Cabinet on three occasions:as Secretary of State for Transport from 1995 to 1997;as the Leader of the House of Commons and Lord Privy Seal from 2010 to 2012;and as Chief Whip of the House of Commons from 2012 to 2014.
Thomas Galloway Dunlop du Roy de Blicquy Galbraith,2nd Baron Strathclyde,,known informally as Tom Strathclyde,is a British Conservative politician. Lord Strathclyde served in the political role of Leader of the House of Lords from the 2010 general election until January 2013 and as Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster,having been Leader of the Opposition in the House of Lords (1998–2010).
David Leonard Watts,Baron Watts is a British politician and life peer who served in the Blair and Brown governments as a Lord Commissioner of the Treasury from 2005 to 2010 and chaired the Parliamentary Labour Party as a backbencher from 2012 to 2015. A member of the Labour Party,he was Member of Parliament (MP) for St Helens North from 1997 to 2015.
Clive Stafford Soley,Baron Soley is a Labour Party politician in the United Kingdom. He served as a Member of Parliament (MP) from 1979 to 2005,and later as a Member of the House of Lords until 2023.
Jonathan Toby Harris,Baron Harris of Haringey is a Labour Party politician in the House of Lords.
Baron Raglan,of Raglan in the County of Monmouth,is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created on 20 October 1852 for the military commander Lord FitzRoy Somerset,chiefly remembered as commander of the British troops during the Crimean War.
David Arthur Russell Howell,Baron Howell of Guildford,is a British Conservative Party politician,journalist,and economic consultant. Having been successively Secretary of State for Energy and then for Transport under Margaret Thatcher,Howell has more recently been a Minister of State in the Foreign Office from the election in 2010 until the reshuffle of 2012. He has served as Chair of the House of Lords International Relations Committee since May 2016. Along with William Hague,Sir George Young and Kenneth Clarke,he is one of the few Cabinet ministers from the 1979–97 governments who continued to hold high office in the party,being its deputy leader in the House of Lords until 2010. His daughter,Frances,was married to the former Chancellor of the Exchequer,George Osborne.
John Steven Bassam,Baron Bassam of Brighton,is a British Labour and Co-operative politician and a member of the House of Lords.
David Garro Trefgarne,2nd Baron Trefgarne,,is a British Conservative politician. He is currently the longest-serving member of the House of Lords.
Norman Reginald Warner,Baron Warner,is a British member of the House of Lords. A career civil servant from 1960,he was created a life peer in 1998. He was Parliamentary Under-Secretary in the Department of Health from 2003 to 2007,and a Minister of State at the Department of Health from 2005 to 2007. He has also been an adviser to a number of consulting companies. On 19 October 2015,Lord Warner resigned the Labour whip and became a Non-affiliated member of the House of Lords.
John Donkin Dormand,Baron Dormand of Easington was a British educationist and Labour Party politician from the coal mining area of Easington in County Durham,in the north-east of England. He was Member of Parliament (MP) for the Easington constituency from 1970 until his retirement in 1987.
Charles George Ammon,1st Baron Ammon,PC,DL,JP was a British Labour Party politician.
Kamlesh Kumar Patel,Lord Patel of Bradford,is a member of the House of Lords. Having been appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 1999 Birthday Honours,he was created a life peer as Baron Patel of Bradford,of Bradford in the County of West Yorkshire on 8 June 2006.
Peter Derek Truscott,Baron Truscott is a British petroleum and mining consultant,independent member of the House of Lords and writer. He was a Labour Member of the European Parliament (MEP) from 1994 to 1999 and was elevated to the peerage in 2004. He has written on Russia,defence and energy,and works with a variety of companies in the field of non-renewable resource extraction.
George Yull Mackie,Baron Mackie of Benshie was a British Liberal and Liberal Democrat politician.
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.
Andrew Zelig Stone,Baron Stone of Blackheath is a Labour member of the House of Lords.
Geoffrey Robert James Borwick,5th Baron Borwick,is a British businessman,hereditary peer and member of the House of Lords.
