- Gordon Brown
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.
- Iain Dale
Iain Campbell Dale (born 15 July 1962) is an English Conservative, blogger, author, and presenter on internet TV station, 18 Doughty Street Talk TV, which he co-founded with Stephan Shakespeare. He was the first openly gay Conservative to be selected as a Parliamentary candidate. Dale is author or editor of fourteen political books. He presented "Planet Politics" on Oneword Radio and occasionally appeared on "Sunday Service" on BBC Radio Five Live.
- Jack Straw
John Whitaker Straw (born 3 August 1946) is a senior British Labour Party politician. On 28 June 2007 he was appointed to the offices of Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain and Secretary of State for Justice. Previously he was Home Secretary from 1997 to 2001, Foreign Secretary from 2001 to 5 May 2006 and Lord Privy Seal and Leader of the House of Commons from 2006 to 2007. He has been the Member of Parliament for Blackburn since 1979.
- Ken Livingstone
Kenneth Robert Livingstone (born June 17, 1945) is a British politician who became Mayor of London on the creation of the post in 2000. He was previously Leader of the Greater London Council from 1981 until it was abolished in 1986. After its abolition, he became Member of Parliament for Brent East, but was quoted as saying that being in the House of Commons was not enjoyable and made little impact there.
- John Reid
John Reid (born 8 May 1947) is a British politician who is the former Home Secretary and Member of Parliament (MP) for the Scottish constituency of Airdrie and Shotts in the United Kingdom.
- John Major
Sir John Major, KG, CH (born 29 March 1943) is a former British politician who was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and leader of the British Conservative Party from 1990 to 1997. During his time as Prime Minister, the world went through a period of transition after the end of the Cold War. This included the growing importance of the European Union and the debate surrounding Britain's ratification of the Maastricht Treaty.
- Harriet Harman
Harriet Ruth Harman QC MP (born 30 July 1950) is a British solicitor and Labour politician. Since 24 June 2007, she has been the Deputy Leader and Party Chair of the Labour Party. On 28 June 2007 she was appointed Leader of the House of Commons and Minister for Women and Equality. She has significant political family connections- her aunt, the author Elizabeth Longford was the wife of the Labour cabinet minister, …
- Peter Hain
Peter Gerald Hain PC MP (born February 16, 1950, Nairobi, Kenya) is a British Labour Party politician and Secretary of State for Work and Pensions (he is also Secretary of State for Wales). He is the Member of Parliament for the Welsh constituency of Neath. He came to the UK from South Africa as a teenager, and was a noted anti-apartheid campaigner in the 1970s.
- John Prescott
John Leslie Prescott (born 31 May 1938) is a British Labour Party politician, former Deputy Prime Minister, First Secretary of State and current Member of Parliament for the constituency of Hull East. He was elected Deputy Leader of the Labour Party after coming second in the Labour leadership election in 1994, and was appointed Deputy Prime Minister after Labour's victory in the 1997 General Election. A former ship's steward and trade union activist, …
- Alistair Darling
Alistair Maclean Darling (born November 28, 1953) is a British politician and Chancellor of the Exchequer since June 28, 2007. He is Labour Party Member of Parliament for Edinburgh South West in Scotland.
- Alan Johnson
Alan Arthur Johnson (born 17 May 1950, London) is a British Labour Party politician and the Secretary of State for Health. He has been the Member of Parliament for Hull West and Hessle since 1997. In 2004 he became the first trade union leader to become a Cabinet minister since Frank Cousins in 1964.
- David Miliband
David Wright Miliband (born 15 July 1965) is a British politician who is the current Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs and Member of Parliament for the constituency of South Shields, Tyne and Wear.
- Wendy Alexander
Wendy Alexander (born 27 June, 1963, Glasgow) is a Scottish Labour Party Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) for Paisley North. Prior to entering the Scottish Parliament,Alexander worked in the private, voluntary and public sectors and for the international management consultancy Booz Allen Hamilton. This included a period as Special Adviser to the Secretary of State for Scotland (Donald Dewar). From 1999 to 2002 she was a minister in the Scottish Executive, …
- Helen Clark
Helen Clark, previously known as Helen Brinton, (born December 23, 1954) is a politician in the United Kingdom. She was a Labour Member of Parliament for Peterborough from 1997 until the 2005 general election, when she lost her seat to Conservative candidate Stewart Jackson. Her marriage to Ian Brinton ended in 1997; she subsequently married political journalist Alan Clark and assumed his name. Clark was educated at the University of Bristol, …
- George Galloway
George Galloway (born 16 August 1954 in Dundee) is a Scottish politician and author noted for his left wing views, confrontational style, and rhetorical skill. He is currently the Respect Member of Parliament (MP) for Bethnal Green and Bow, having previously been a Labour Party MP for Glasgow Hillhead and Glasgow Kelvin since 1987. Galloway is probably best known for his vigorous campaign to overturn economic sanctions against Iraq, …
- Neil Kinnock
Neil Gordon Kinnock, Baron Kinnock, PC (born 28 March 1942) is a British politician. He was a Member of Parliament (MP) from 1970 to 1995, and was Leader of the Opposition and Labour Party leader from 1983 to 1992, when he resigned after the 1992 general election defeat. He subsequently served as a UK Commissioner of the European Commission from 1995 until 2004, and is now Chair of the British Council. He is also President of Cardiff University.
- Tom Watson
Thomas Anthony Watson (born 8 January 1967) is a politician in the United Kingdom. He is Labour Party Member of Parliament (MP) for West Bromwich East, and was principally known for being the first MP to start a blog. From May 5 to September 6 2006, he was Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State at the Ministry of Defence until he resigned from government after urging Tony Blair to resign. Tom Watson was educated at King Charles I school, Kidderminster, …
- Hazel Blears
Hazel Anne Blears MP (born May 14, 1956) is a British politician and is the Labour Member of Parliament for Salford. She was Minister without Portfolio and Labour Party Chair between May 5 2006 and June 24, 2007. Since June 27, 2007 she has served as Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government
- Jacqui Smith
Jacqueline Jill Smith is a British politician who has been Home Secretary since June 28, 2007 and is the current Member of Parliament for Redditch, since 1997. She was made a Member of the Privy Council in 2003. Smith is the first female Home Secretary of the United Kingdom, and only the third woman to hold one of the Great Offices of State — after Margaret Thatcher (Prime Minister) and Margaret Beckett (Foreign Secretary).
- Ed Balls
Edward Michael Balls (born 25 February 1967) is a British politician, and Labour and Co-operative Member of Parliament for the West Yorkshire constituency of Normanton. Since June 2007 he has been Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families.
- David Blunkett
David Blunkett (born 6 June 1947) is a British Labour Party politician and has been Member of Parliament for Sheffield Brightside since 1987. Blind since birth and from a poor family, he rose to become Education Secretary from 1997 to 2001, and then Home Secretary from 2001 to 2004, when he resigned after a scandal.
- Charles Clarke
Charles Rodway Clarke (born 21 September 1950) is a British Labour Party politician. He has been Member of Parliament for Norwich South since 1997 and was Home Secretary from December 2004 until May 2006.
- Tony Benn
Anthony "Tony" Neil Wedgwood Benn (born 3 April 1925), formerly 2nd Viscount Stansgate, is a British socialist politician. He was instrumental in the creation of the Peerage Act 1963. During the 1970s and 1980s he was the prominent figure on the left of the Labour Party. In the second government of Harold Wilson he was Secretary of State for Industry. In the government of James Callaghan he was Secretary of State for Energy.
- John Smith
John Smith QC (13 September 1938 - 12 May 1994) was a Scottish politician who served as leader of the Labour Party from July 1992 until his sudden death from a heart attack on 12 May 1994.
- John Smith
John William Patrick Smith (born March 7, 1951) is a Welsh Labour Party politician, and Member of Parliament (MP) for the Vale of Glamorgan. Born in Penarth, Smith attended Penarth County Grammar School and then served for a while in the Royal Air Force. He was first elected to the seat in a 1989 by-election, lost it to the Conservatives in 1992 by a very narrow margin, and regained the seat in the 1997 general election.
- Douglas Alexander
Douglas Garven Alexander (born October 26, 1967) is a British politician who is Secretary of State for International Development. He is the Member of Parliament for the Scottish constituency of Paisley and Renfrewshire South representing the Labour Party. On 24 June 2007 Gordon Brown announced he would be appointed as his general election coordinator.
- Peter Mandelson
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.
- John McDonnell
John Martin McDonnell (born 8 September 1951 in Liverpool, England) is a British politician and Labour Member of Parliament for Hayes and Harlington. He is Chair of the Socialist Campaign Group of MPs, the Labour Representation Committee, and Public Services Not Private Profit. McDonnell unsuccessfully ran for the post of Labour Party leader following Tony Blair's resignation.
- Ruth Kelly
Ruth Maria Kelly (born 9 May 1968) is a British politician. She is the Member of Parliament for the Bolton West constituency representing the Labour Party. She was Secretary of State for Education and Skills from 2004-2006, and in the May 2006 reshuffle was made Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government and Minister for Women and Equality.
- Trevor Mallard
Trevor Colin Mallard (born 17 June 1954) is a New Zealand politician. He is currently a member of Cabinet, the Minister of Economic Development, the Minister of Industry and Regional Development, the Minister of State Owned Enterprises, the Minister of Sport and Recreation and Minister for the Rugby World Cup. He is also the associate Minister of Finance.
- John Howard
John Melbourne Howard (1913-10 August 1982) was a British Conservative Party politician. Howard was educated at Whitgift School, South Croydon. He served in the Royal Navy, 1941-46, in minesweepers during World War II, holding the rank of sub-lieutenant. He worked as a chartered accountant. In the 1945 general election, Howard stood as a Liberal in Croydon North, coming third.
- Robin Cook
Robert Finlayson Cook (28 February 1946 - 6 August 2005) was a politician in the British Labour Party. He was known as Robin Cook. He was Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs of the United Kingdom from 1997 to 2001. He resigned from his post as Leader of the House of Commons and Lord President of the Council on 17 March 2003 in protest against the 2003 invasion of Iraq.
- David Parker
David William Parker (born 1960), a New Zealand politician, worked as a litigation partner in the law firm Anderson Lloyd Caudwell, and later as a businessman. Parker joined the Labour Party, and served as Attorney-General and Minister of Transport and Energy from 2005 until March 2006. Parker first gained election to Parliament in the 2002 elections, winning an upset victory over National's Gavan Herlihy in the Otago seat.
- Nicola Sturgeon
Nicola Sturgeon (born on 19 July, 1970 in Irvine, North Ayrshire) is the Deputy First Minister of Scotland, Cabinet Secretary for Health and Wellbeing, Deputy Leader of the Scottish National Party (SNP) and Member (MSP) of the Scottish Parliament for Glasgow Govan. Sturgeon became an MSP in the first elections to the Scottish Parliament in 1999, becoming the SNP's spokeswoman on justice, and later on education and health.
- Phil Goff
Philip Bruce Goff (born 22 June, 1953), generally known as Phil Goff, is the current Minister of Defence of New Zealand. He also serves as Minister of Trade, Disarmament and Minister of Pacific Island Affairs.
- Polly Toynbee
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
- Jon Cruddas
Jonathan Cruddas (born 7 April 1962), known as Jon Cruddas, is a United Kingdom Labour Party politician. He is the Member of Parliament for Dagenham and a candidate in the Labour Party deputy leadership election. Cruddas was eliminated in the penultimate round of the contest which was won by Harriet Harman MP. Jon Cruddas won the most votes of all candidates in the first round of voting, …
- Parekura Horomia
Parekura Tureia Horomia (9 November 1950 -) is a New Zealand politician. He is a member of the Labour Party. Horomia was born in Tolaga Bay of Ngati Porou, Te Aitanga Hauiti, Ngati Kahungunu and Ngai Tahu descent. He initially worked as a manual labourer and then as a printer in the newspaper industry. Later, Horomia became involved in the Department of Labour's work schemes on the East Coast and was gradually appointed to supervisory positions in the programme.
- Margaret Beckett
Margaret Mary Beckett is a British Labour politician and Member of Parliament (MP) for Derby South. She served in government under Tony Blair, becoming the first woman to hold the office of Foreign Secretary (the second of only three women to have held one of the Great Offices of State). She was Deputy Leader of the Labour Party from 1992 to 1994 and was briefly its Leader in 1994.
- Michael Meacher
Michael Hugh Meacher (born November 4 1939) is a British Labour party politician, and Member of Parliament (MP) for Oldham West and Royton. On February 22 2007 he declared that he would be standing for the Labour Leadership, challenging Gordon Brown and John McDonnell .On May 14, however, after talks with John McDonnell, he announced he would stand aside in order to back McDonnell as the "candidate of the left"