Douglas Martin Hogg,3rd Viscount Hailsham,Baron Hailsham of Kettlethorpe,is a British politician and barrister. A member of the Conservative Party he served in the Cabinet as Minister of Agriculture,Fisheries and Food from 1995 to 1997,and was a Member of Parliament (MP) from 1979 to 2010.
David John Maclean,Baron Blencathra,is a Conservative Party life peer. He was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Penrith and The Border from 1983 to 2010.
Andrew James MacKay is a British Conservative Party politician who served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Birmingham Stechford from 1977 to 1979,East Berkshire from 1983 to 1997 and for Bracknell in Berkshire from 1997 to 2010.
Harry Michael Cohen is a British Labour Party politician,who was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Leyton from 1983 to 1997 and Leyton and Wanstead from 1997 to 2010.
Derek Leslie Conway TD is an English politician and television presenter. A member of the Conservative Party,Conway served as a Member of Parliament (MP) for the constituency of Shrewsbury and Atcham from 1983 to 1997,and Old Bexley and Sidcup from 2001 to 2010. He is currently a presenter of Epilogue,a book review programme on Press TV,an English-language international television news channel funded by the Iranian government.
John Quentin Davies,Baron Davies of Stamford is a British Labour politician and life peer who served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Grantham and Stamford from 1987 to 2010. He served as a junior defence minister in the Brown ministry from 2008 to 2010.
Ann Lloyd Keen is a British Labour Party politician,who served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Brentford and Isleworth from 1997,until she was defeated by Conservative candidate Mary Macleod in 2010. In 1999,The Guardian newspaper revealed that she had acted as a "secret go-between" for the Labour Party and Shaun Woodward,at the time the MP for Witney,as he attempted to defect from the Conservative Party in the same year.
Julie Kirkbride is a British Conservative politician. She was the Member of Parliament for the Conservative stronghold of Bromsgrove from the 1997 to the 2010 general elections.
Dame Eleanor Fulton Laing,is a British politician serving as the Member of Parliament (MP) for the Epping Forest constituency since 1997. A member of the Conservative Party,she has served as Chairman of Ways and Means and Deputy Speaker of the House of Commons since 2020.
Dame Caroline Alice Spelman is a British Conservative Party politician who served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Meriden in the West Midlands from 1997 to 2019. From May 2010 to September 2012 she was the Secretary of State for Environment,Food and Rural Affairs in David Cameron's coalition cabinet,and was sworn as a Privy Counsellor on 13 May 2010.
William David Wiggin is a British Conservative Party politician,and a former Shadow Minister for Agriculture &Fisheries. He has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for North Herefordshire since the 2010 general election,having previously represented the Leominster constituency from the 2001 general election until it was abolished in 2010. The two constituencies cover much of the same area. In December 2019,Wiggin won 63% of the vote and a majority of 24,856.
Jonathan Sayeed is a British politician who was a Conservative Member of Parliament in the United Kingdom from 1983 to 1992 and from 1997 to 2005.
Sir Robert James MacGillivray Neill is a British barrister and Conservative Party politician. He has served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Bromley and Chislehurst since a by-election on 29 June 2006,following the death of the previous incumbent Eric Forth. He served as a Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Department of Communities and Local Government from 14 May 2010 to 4 September 2012. He is the current Chair of Parliament's Justice Select Committee.
Celia Anne Barlow is a British Labour Party politician who was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Hove from 2005 to 2010. She also worked as home news editor at the BBC.
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 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.
Nigel Adams is a British politician who has served as Minister of State without Portfolio at the Cabinet Office since 2021. A member of the Conservative Party,he has been Member of Parliament (MP) for Selby and Ainsty since 2010.
William James Quince is a British Conservative Party politician and former lawyer. He was first elected at the 2015 general election as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Colchester,defeating the incumbent Liberal Democrat MP Sir Bob Russell. From 2011 to 2016,Quince was a borough councillor for Prettygate ward in Colchester.
Christopher Paul Davies is a British Conservative Party politician. He was the Member of Parliament (MP) for the constituency of Brecon and Radnorshire after winning the seat in the 2015 general election. In March 2019,he pleaded guilty to two counts of fraud concerning Parliamentary expenses,and on 21 June 2019 he was removed from office by a recall petition. He stood again for the Conservatives in the ensuing by-election,but lost to the Liberal Democrat candidate Jane Dodds.
