Sarah Louise Teather is the Director of Jesuit Refugee Service UK and a former British Member of Parliament and Minister. As a Liberal Democrat politician,she founded the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Guantanamo Bay and was chairman of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Refugees. On stepping down as an MP,she joined the Jesuit Refugee Service as an advocacy adviser and was appointed as country director of JRS UK in December 2015.
Ifor Huw Irranca-Davies is a Welsh Labour and Co-operative politician,who has been the Member of the Senedd (MS) for Ogmore since 2016. He was previously the Member of Parliament (MP) for Ogmore from 2002 to 2016.
Dame Rosalie Winterton,is a British Labour Party politician who has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Doncaster Central since 1997. In June 2017,Winterton became one of three Deputy Speakers in the House of Commons.
Jonathan Owen Jones is a Welsh politician. He was the Labour and Co-operative Member of Parliament for Cardiff Central from 1992 to 2005. He was then an unsuccessful candidate for Change UK in Wales at the 2019 European Parliament election.
Dame Cheryl Elise Kendall Gillan was a British politician who served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Chesham and Amersham from 1992 until her death in 2021. A member of the Conservative Party,she served as Secretary of State for Wales from 2010 to 2012.
Robert Andrew Stunell,Baron Stunell,is a Liberal Democrat politician in the United Kingdom.
Cardiff Central is a borough constituency in the city of Cardiff. It returns one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom,elected by the first past the post system. The seat is currently held by Jo Stevens of the Labour Party. She was appointed as Shadow Secretary of State for Digital,Culture,Media and Sport on 6 April 2020.
Stephen Roy Williams is a British Liberal Democrat politician who served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Bristol West from the 2005 general election until his defeat by Labour Party candidate Thangam Debbonaire in 2015. As an MP,he served in the Cameron–Clegg coalition government as Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State in the Department of Communities and Local Government from 2013 to 2015.
Robert Owen Biggs Wilson is an English politician and political author. He was elected Conservative Member of Parliament for the Reading East parliamentary constituency in the 2005 general election,being re-elected in the elections of 2010 and 2015,before being defeated in 2017. He became Minister for Civil Society in the Cabinet Office on 27 September 2014.
Martin Charles Horwood is a British Liberal Democrat politician who represented South West England in the European Parliament from 2019 to 2020. He previously served as the Member of Parliament for Cheltenham from 2005 to 2015.
Daniel John Rogerson is a Cornish-British Liberal Democrat politician. He was the Member of Parliament (MP) for North Cornwall from the 2005 general election until his defeat at the 2015 general election. In October 2013,he became the Liberal Democrat Minister at the Department for Environment,Food and Rural Affairs,holding the office until losing his Parliamentary seat to Conservative candidate Scott Mann.
Dame Nia Rhiannon Griffith is a Welsh politician who has served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Llanelli since 2005. A member of the Labour Party,she has served as Shadow Minister for the Cabinet Office since 2023. She previously served as Shadow Minister for Exports from 2021 to 2023,Shadow Secretary of State for Defence from 2016 to 2020,and Shadow Secretary of State for Wales from 2015 to 2016 and 2020 to 2021.
Jessica Elizabeth Morden is a British politician serving as Member of Parliament (MP) for Newport East since 2005. A member of the Labour Party,she was General Secretary of Welsh Labour from 1999 until her election to Parliament.
Anne Margaret Main is a Conservative Party politician who formerly served as the Member of Parliament for St Albans in Hertfordshire. She was elected at the general election of 2005,and was re-elected in 2010,2015 and 2017. She lost her seat to Daisy Cooper,a Liberal Democrat,at the 2019 general election.
The Beveridge Group is a centre-left group within the Liberal Democrat party in the UK. It was set up in 2001 by MPs Alistair Carmichael,Paul Holmes,John Barrett and John Pugh to promote debate within the party regarding public service provision.
The Welsh Liberal Democrats are a branch of the United Kingdom Liberal Democrats that operates in Wales. The party is led by Jane Dodds,who served as MP for Brecon and Radnorshire from August to December 2019,and MS for Mid and West Wales since May 2021. The party currently has 1 elected member in the Senedd and no Welsh seats in the UK House of Commons,but does have several members of the House of Lords. The party had 69 local councilors serving in principal authorities as of the 2022 local authority elections,up 10 from 2017.
The Cameron–Clegg coalition was formed by David Cameron and Nick Clegg when Cameron was invited by Queen Elizabeth II to form a government,following the resignation of Prime Minister Gordon Brown on 11 May 2010,after the general election on 6 May. It was the UK's first coalition government since the Churchill caretaker ministry in 1945.
The list that follows is the Liberal Democrats Frontbench Team/Shadow Cabinet led by Menzies Campbell from 2006 to 2007.
Joanna Meriel Stevens is a Welsh politician serving as Shadow Secretary of State for Wales since 2021,and previously from 2016 to 2017. A member of the Labour Party,she has been Member of Parliament (MP) for Cardiff Central since 2015.
Fay Alicia Jones is a British politician who has served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Brecon and Radnorshire since 2019. She is a member of the Conservative Party and a junior government minister.
