- 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.
- Stephen Harper
Stephen Joseph Harper (born April 30, 1959) is the 22nd and current Prime Minister of Canada, and leader of the Conservative Party of Canada. Harper became Prime Minister after his party won a minority government in the January 2006 federal election. He is the first ever Prime Minister from his current political party, and the first since 1993 from any "Conservative" party, following twelve years of government by the Liberal Party.
- Winston Churchill
Sir Winston Churchill FRS (18 April 1620-26 March 1688), was an English soldier, historian and politician. He was the father of John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough, as well as an ancestor of his 20th-century namesake, Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchill. Churchill was the son of John Churchill, a lawyer, and Sarah Winston, daughter of Sir Henry Winston. The Churchills were an old Dorsetshire family. He was educated at St John's College, Oxford, …
- Paul Martin
Paul Edgar Philippe Martin, PC, MP, BA, LLB, LLD (h.c.) (born August 28, 1938) was the 21st Prime Minister of Canada and a former leader of the Liberal Party of Canada. On November 14, 2003, Martin succeeded Jean Chrétien as leader of the Liberal Party and became Prime Minister on December 12, 2003. The 2004 election yielded a minority government in which the Liberals under Martin remained in power.
- Paul Martin
Paul Martin (born March 17, 1967, Glasgow) is a Scottish Labour politician, and Member of the Scottish Parliament for the Glasgow Springburn constituency since 1999. His father is Michael Martin MP, the Speaker of the House of Commons. Following the 2007 election, Martin has been appointed Labour's shadow spokesman on community safety.
- 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.
- Boris Johnson
Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson, MP (born 19 June 1964, New York), better known as Boris Johnson, is a British Conservative Party politician and journalist. Known for his eccentric public persona, he is Member of Parliament for Henley and was for a time front-bench spokesman as Shadow Minister for Higher Education.
- 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, …
- Jack Layton
Jack Layton is leader of the New Democratic Party of Canada and is theMember of Parliament for the riding of Toronto-Danforth in Ontario. In the federal election held October 14, 2008, the New Democratic Party won 37 seats, an increase in seats compared to both the 2006 and 2004 federal elections.
- David Davis
David Michael Davis (born December 23, 1948) is a British politician, Conservative Member of Parliament (MP) for Haltemprice and Howden and Shadow Home Secretary.
- John Smith
Sir John Lindsay Eric Smith, CH, CBE (3 April 1923 - 28 February 2007) was a British banker, Conservative Member of Parliament, and Lord Lieutenant of Berkshire. He was involved with many architectural, industrial and maritime conservation charities. He founded the Landmark Trust in 1965.
- 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.
- 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.
- Michael Moore
Michael Kevin Moore (born 3 June 1965) is a politician in the United Kingdom. He was elected Liberal Democrat Member of Parliament for Tweeddale, Ettrick and Lauderdale, Scotland, in the 1997 general election, succeeding David Steel. He was similarly returned to the successor seat, Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk in the 2005 election. Since March 2006 he has been the Liberal Democrat Shadow Foreign Secretary.
- 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).
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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, …
- John Redwood
John Redwood has been the Member of Parliament for Wokingham since 1987. First attending Kent College, Canterbury, he graduated from Magdalen College, and has a DPhil from All Souls, Oxford. A businessman by background, he has been a director of NM Rothschild merchant bank and chairman of a quoted industrial PLC. John was an Oxfordshire County Councillor in the 1970s. In the mid-1980s he was Chief Policy Advisor to Margaret Thatcher .
- 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, …
- Peter Mackay
Peter Gordon MacKay, PC, QC, MP (born September 27, 1965) serves as the member of Parliament (MP) for Central Nova, Nova Scotia, Canada's Minister of Foreign Affairs and Minister for the Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency. MacKay was the final leader of the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada (PC Party). On October 15, 2003, he and Canadian Alliance leader Stephen Harper agreed to merge the two parties, forming the Conservative Party of Canada.
- 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.
- 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.
- Stéphane Dion
Stéphane Maurice Dion, PC, MP, Ph.D., (born September 28, 1955 in Quebec City, Quebec) is the current leader of the Liberal Party of Canada and Leader of the Opposition in the Canadian House of Commons. Since 1996, he has been the Member of Parliament for the riding of Saint-Laurent–Cartierville in Montreal. Dion is a former academic who served as a cabinet minister under Jean Chrétien and Paul Martin.
- Monte Solberg
Monte Kenton Solberg PC, MP (born September 17, 1958 in Calgary, Alberta) is a Canadian Member of Parliament, representing the riding of Medicine Hat in the Canadian House of Commons as a member of the Conservative Party of Canada. He is the current Minister of Human Resources and Social Development. He has also served as Critic for Foreign Affairs, National Revenue, and Human Resources Development.
- 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
- 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, …
- Michael Howard
Michael Howard QC (born 7 July 1941) is a British politician, an MP since the 1983 General Election for the constituency of Folkestone and Hythe.
- Nick Clegg
Nick Clegg has a piece in The Guardian today: The world watched in horror yesterday as the conflict in Gaza claimed its latest innocent victims in the rubble of a UN school. Any hopes of reconciliation are being snuffed out as anger spills into protests around the world. The past two weeks have been a telling indictment of the international community. We have an outgoing US president sanctioning Israel's military response and an aching silence from the president-elect.
- 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.
- George Osborne
George Gideon Oliver Osborne (born 23 May, 1971 in London) is a Conservative politician in the United Kingdom, and has been Member of Parliament for Tatton since 2001. He is currently Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer and leads HM Opposition's Shadow Treasury Team.
- Michael Ignatieff
MICHAEL IGNATIEFF announced his candidacy on April 7, 2006. He is a Toronto-born academic and author, who left his post as director of the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at Harvard University in August 2005 to teach at the University of Toronto. He now represents the Toronto riding of Etobicoke-Lakeshore. Ignatieff worked as a reporter for The Globe and Mail before going on to earn his PhD at Harvard.
- 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.
- 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 Jones
David Ian Jones (born 22 March 1952), is a Conservative politician. He is Member of Parliament (MP) for Clwyd West.
- Oliver Cromwell
Oliver Cromwell was an English military and political leader best known for his involvement in making England into a republican Commonwealth and for the brutal war exercised in his conquest of Ireland. He was born in Huntingdon, seventy miles north of London, into the ranks of the middle gentry, and remained relatively obscure for his first forty years, …
- Alex Salmond
Alexander Elliot Anderson Salmond, known as Alex Salmond (born December 31, 1954), is the current First Minister of Scotland, heading a minority government. He is Leader of the Scottish National Party (SNP), Member of Parliament for the constituency of Banff and Buchan, and the Member of the Scottish Parliament for Gordon. He is currently serving his second term as leader of the SNP, taking over from John Swinney.
- Garth Turner
Mr. Turner, 59, was a Conservative when he was first elected to the Commons in 1988. He served briefly as revenue minister and ran unsuccessfully for the Tory leadership in 1993 and lost in the general election that year.
- 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.