Dr James Gordon Brown (born 20 February 1951) is the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, the First Lord of the Treasury, the Minister for the Civil Service, the current Member of Parliament for Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath and the Leader of the Labour Party since 27 June 2007. Before this, he served as Chancellor of the Exchequer under Tony Blair from 1997 to 2007.

Peter Benjamin Mandelson (born 21 October 1953) is the current British Commissioner of the European Union for Trade. Before taking this post, he was a British Labour politician, and served as Member of Parliament for Hartlepool for twelve years. He is widely regarded as one of the main architects of the modern Labour Party and its rebranding as "New Labour". He twice resigned from the cabinet of Tony Blair's government.

Alastair John Campbell (born May 25, 1957) was the Director of Communications and Strategy for the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1997 to 2003.

Polly Toynbee (born Mary Louisa Toynbee on December 27 1946) is a journalist and writer in the United Kingdom, and has since 1998 been a highly influential columnist for "The Guardian" newspaper. Her columns are written from a social democratic viewpoint, and thus are closer to Labour than the other major British parties. She holds up social democratic Sweden as an exemplar. She was appointed President of the British Humanist Association in July 2007

Mark Serwotka (born 1963) is the General Secretary of the British trade union for civil servants, the Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS). He took office on 1 June 2002. He is seen to be one of the trade union "awkward squad". His election was marred by controversy when his predecessor, the more New Labour-leaning Barry Reamsbottom, stayed in office after the expiry of his five-year term of office. The dispute was taken to the High Court where Serwotka won.

Andrew Nicholas James Rawnsley (born January 5, 1962) is a British political journalist and broadcaster. He was educated on a scholarship at Rugby School and read History at Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge University, gaining a first-class Honours degree. He started his career at the BBC, working there for two years from 1983, and in 1985 joined "The Guardian". From 1987 he was the newspaper's parliamentary sketch writer.

Diane Abbott celebrates 20 years as the first elected Black female MP in Britain! Diane Abbott MP since June 11, 1987 Diane Abbott was the first Black female Member of Parliament ever elected in Britain on June 11 th , 1987. As MP Abbott celebrates her 20 years in Parliament she is still one of only two Black women in the British Parliament out of 646 members.

Alan John Simpson (born 20 September 1948 in Bootle, Liverpool) is a British Labour politician and Member of Parliament for Nottingham South. Simpson came to Nottingham as a student, studying economics at Trent Polytechnic (now Nottingham Trent University). After graduating in 1972 he became a community worker, and later a research officer for the city's Racial Equality Council.

Tony Woodley (born Wirral 2 January 1948) is a British Trade Union leader who came to prominence in June 2003 when he was elected to succeed Bill Morris as General Secretary of the Transport and General Workers Union (T&G). He is a member of the so-called "Awkward Squad" of trade union leaders opposed to New Labour policies that they perceive to be against the interests of working people. He was born and educated on the Wirral.

Dawn Primarolo (born 2 May 1954 in London) is a British Labour Member of Parliament representing Bristol South. Since 29 June 2007 she has been a Minister of State at the Department of Health. Between 1999 and 2007 she was Paymaster General, after being Financial Secretary to the Treasury from 1997 to 1999. Schooled at the Thomas Bennett Comprehensive School in Sussex, she joined the Labour Party in 1973 and was first elected to Parliament at the 1987 general election, …

Mark Mardell (born 10 September 1957) is the Europe Editor for BBC News. He has provided coverage for each United Kingdom general election since 1992. Mardell was educated at Epsom College in Surrey, England, and studied politics at the University of Kent. He began his career reporting and reading the news for the commercial station Radio Tees. He then worked at Radio Aire in Leeds before moving to Independent Radio News in London, …

Derek Draper was a New Labour insider and lobbyist who was at the centre of a scandal about political lobbying known as "Lobbygate", the "Cash for Access" scandal, or "Drapergate".

Martin Smith is National Secretary of the British Socialist Workers' Party (since 2004) and is a member of its Central Committee. He was formerly a trade union activist and a member of the Labour Party. He is the author of numerous articles and the following pamphlets; *"The Awkward Squad, …

David Nellist (born July 1952) is a Trotskyist political figure and former Labour Member of Parliament (MP) for the former constituency of Coventry South East. He is a member of the Socialist Party of England and Wales and a sitting councillor in Coventry as well as an active member of the Amicus trade union. A long-standing Marxist and at that time supporter of the Militant Tendency, Nellist was an MP in Coventry from 1983 to 1992, …

Julian Le Grand is Richard Titmuss Professor of Social Policy at the London School of Economics (LSE) and has been a senior policy advisor to the Prime Minister (Tony Blair). If there is a single defining thought about New Labour's approach to public services, it surrounds the benefit of choice, alongside investment. And if there has been a single leading intellectual exponent of this thesis, it is Julian Le Grand, the health policy adviser to the prime minister.

Sir Bernard Ingham (born June 21 1932) is a journalist best known as Margaret Thatcher's press secretary. Ingham was educated at Hebden Bridge Grammar School and joined the "Hebden Bridge Times" newspaper at the age of 16. He went on to work for the "Yorkshire Evening Post", "the Yorkshire Post", latterly as Northern Industrial Correspondent, and The Guardian.

Tristram Hunt (born 1974), is a British historian, broadcaster and newspaper columnist. He also lectures at Queen Mary, University of London. Hunt has made many appearances on television. He first came to prominence when he presented a four-part series on the English Civil War in 2002, but caused raised eyebrows with an essay in the "New Statesman" entitled: "Britain's Very Own Taliban", …

Charles Anthony Raven Crosland (29 August 1918 - 19 February 1977) was a member of the Labour Party and an important socialist theorist. He served as the Member of Parliament for South Gloucestershire and later for Great Grimsby. Throughout his long career he occupied the cabinet positions of Secretary of State for Education and Science, President of the Board of Trade, Secretary of State for Local Government and Regional Planning and Foreign Secretary.

The Premiership of Tony Blair began on 2 May 1997 and ended on 27 June 2007. While serving as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Blair concurrently served as the First Lord of the Treasury, the Minister for the Civil Service, the Leader of the Labour Party (until Gordon Brown was declared Labour leader on 24 June 2007), and a Member of Parliament for the constituency of Sedgefield in the North East of England.

Professor Paul Thompson is the head of the department of Human Resource Management at the University of Strathclyde Business School. He is one of the main theorists of Labour Process theory. He is also a co-editor of the journal "Renewal" about the politics of the British Labour Party. He was previously a member of Big Flame.

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Pat Stack is a British Trotskyist and a leading member of the Socialist Workers' Party and former organizing committee member, he wrote a column in the Socialist Review magazine called 'Stack On The Back' from the 1980s until July 2004. He also holds meetings at the annual Marxism event in the United Kingdom. In February 1995 Auberon Waugh implied in The Daily Telegraph that a New Labour government would implement Stack's ideals.

Keith Hellawell is a former British police officer, who was the New Labour government's drugs advisor and so called "drugs czar" from January 1998. He resigned from his position in July 2002 over the government's reclassification of cannabis from a Class B to a Class C substance. Differences in opinion with the government over strategy towards tackling drugs were common during his tenure. In the position he was paid £106,057 a year.

Peter Capaldi (born 1958, Glasgow) is a Scottish actor and Oscar winning director. Educated at the Glasgow School of Art, he is currently best known for his performance playing the political spin doctor, Malcolm Tucker, in the BBC sitcom "The Thick of It", written by fellow Scottish-Italian, Armando Iannucci. This character is reportedly based on the New Labour spin doctor Alastair Campbell, for which he was nominated for the BAFTA and RTS best comedy actor in 2006.

Harpal Brar (born 1939) is an anti-revisionist political activist and Stalinist commentator. Born in Muktsar, Punjab, India, Brar has lived and worked in Britain since 1962, first as a student and then as a lecturer in law at Harrow College of Higher Education (later renamed the University of Westminster). He is noted for his defence of Stalinism.

John Goto, a British artist best known for his photoshopped montage colour photography, notably coming to wider attention with the "High Summer" section of his "Ukadia" series of pictures. He began using computers in his work in the early '90s with a series made in Russia entitled "The Commissar of Space" which dealt with the final years of the artist Kasimir Malevich’s life during the early Stalinist era.

Philip Gould, Baron Gould of Brookwood (born 30 March, 1950) is a British political adviser closely linked with the Labour Party and Tony Blair. He was strategy and polling adviser to the party in the General Elections of 1997, 2001 and 2005. Gould was one of the key architects of the modern communications revolution inside the Labour Party of the 1980s, which resulted in the emergence of New Labour.

Anthony Charles Lynton Blair (born 6 May 1953) is a British politician who served as the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 2 May 1997 to 27 June 2007, the Leader of the Labour Party from 1994 to 2007 and the Member of Parliament for Sedgefield from 1983 to 2007. On the day he stood down as Prime Minister, he was appointed official Envoy of the Quartet on the Middle East on behalf of the United Nations, the European Union, the United States and Russia.

He studied Philosophy, Politics and Economics at St Catherine's College, Oxford. As a young man he lived in Tanzania for a year, an experience which formed life-long impressions of Africa and the challenges of fighting poverty. A life-long pro-European, he led the British delegation to the first ever meeting of the European Communities Youth Forum in Strasbourg in 1979.