- William Ewart
William Ewart (1 May 1798 - 23 January 1869) was a British politician, born in Liverpool on 1 May 1798. He was educated at Eton and Christ Church, Oxford, gaining the Newdigate prize for English verse. He was called to the bar at the Middle Temple in 1827, and the next year entered Parliament for the borough of Bletchingley in Surrey, serving until 1830. He subsequently sat for Liverpool from 1830 to 1837, for Wigan from 1839 to 1841, …
- William Ewart Gladstone
William Ewart Gladstone was a British Liberal Party statesman and Prime Minister (1868–1874, 1880–1885, 1886 and 1892–1894). He was a notable political reformer, known for his populist speeches, and was for many years the main political rival of Benjamin Disraeli. The English statesman was famously at odds with Queen Victoria for much of his career.
- Winston Churchill
Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill, KG, OM, CH, TD, FRS, PC (Can) (30 November 1874 - 24 January 1965) was a British politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1940 to 1945 and again from 1951 to 1955. A noted statesman, orator and strategist, Churchill was also a soldier in the British Army. He has been studied to a unique extent as part of modern British and world history.
- Winston Churchill
Winston Spencer-Churchill (born October 10, 1940), generally known as Winston Churchill, is a retired British Conservative Party politician and the grandson of former Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchill.
- Ann McKechin
Ann McKechin (born 22 April 1962) is a Labour Party politician in the United Kingdom. She has been Member of Parliament for Glasgow North, Scotland, since the 2005 general election and had previously represented Glasgow Maryhill from 2001 until the constituency was abolished at the 2005 election.
- 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.
- Margaret Thatcher
She was born Margaret Hilda Roberts on October 13 , 1925 , in the town of Grantham , the daughter of a grocer. Educated at Somerville College, Oxford , she studied chemistry and worked as a research chemist. After marrying Denis Thatcher in 1951 , she returned to study law and later briefly worked as a tax lawyer . Her twin children, Carol and Mark were born in 1953 .
- 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
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.
- 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.
- Bobby Sands
Robert Gerard Sands, commonly known as Bobby Sands, (9 March 1954 – 5 May 1981), was a Provisional Irish Republican Army volunteer who died on hunger strike whilst in HM Prison Maze (also known as Long Kesh) for the possession of firearms. He was the leader of the 1981 Hunger Strike, in which Irish Republican prisoners were seeking to regain status as political prisoners, …
- William John
William John (6 October 1878 - 27 August 1955) was a Welsh Labour Party politician, and a Member of Parliament (MP) for thirty years. At the Rhondda West by-election, 1920, he was elected as MP for the safe Labour constituency of Rhondda West, and held the seat until he retired from the House of Commons at the 1950 general election. In Winston Churchill's war-time coalition government, he served from 1942 to 1944 as Comptroller of the Household (i.e. a Government whip), …
- Benjamin Disraeli
Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield, KG, PC, FRS (born Benjamin D'Israeli; 21 December 1804 - 19 April 1881) was a British Conservative statesman and literary figure. He served in government for three decades, twice as Prime Minister - the first and thus far only person of Jewish parentage to do so (although Disraeli was baptised in the Anglican Church at 13).
- 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.
- 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.
- William Cavendish
William Cavendish was an English politician, the son of Lord George Cavendish, later Earl of Burlington. He married Louisa O'Callaghan (d. 1863), daughter of Cornelius O'Callaghan, 1st Baron Lismore, on 18 July 1807. They had four children: * Lady Fanny Cavendish (d. December 30, 1885), married Frederick John Howard and had issue * William Cavendish, …
- Menzies Campbell
Sir Walter Menzies Campbell, CBE, QC (born 22 May 1941), commonly known as Ming Campbell, is a British politician. He is the Liberal Democrat Member of Parliament for North East Fife and was elected leader of the Liberal Democrat party on 2 March 2006. "Menzies" is pronounced "MING-iss", the "z" being a poor rendition of the yogh originally included in the name; hence "Ming".
- David Griffiths
David Griffiths (22 March 1896 - 13 January 1977) was a British Labour Party politician. At the 1945 general election, he was elected as Member of Parliament for Rother Valley. He held the seat through six further general elections until his retirement from the House of Commons at the 1970 election.
- David Jones
David Ian Jones (born 22 March 1952), is a Conservative politician. He is Member of Parliament (MP) for Clwyd West.
- 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, …
- William Smith
William Smith (1756 - 1835) was a British politician and dissenter and Member of Parliament (MP) for Norwich.
- Clement Attlee
Clement Richard Attlee, 1st Earl Attlee, KG, OM, CH, PC (3 January 1883 - 8 October 1967) was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland from 1945 to 1951. The Labour Party under Attlee won a landslide election victory over Winston Churchill immediately after Churchill had led Britain through World War II. He was the first Labour Prime Minister to serve a full Parliamentary term and the first to have a majority in Parliament.
- John Martin
John Martin (8 September 1812 - 29 March 1875) was an Irish nationalist activist who progressed from early militant support for Young Ireland and Repeal, to non-violent alternatives such as support for tenant farmers' rights and eventually as the first Home Rule MP, for Meath 1871-1875.
- Stephen Byers
Stephen John Byers (born April 13, 1953) is a British politician. He is the Labour Member of Parliament for Tyneside North and is a former cabinet minister.
- 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.
- John Hume
John Hume (born 18 January 1937) is an Northern Irish politician, founding member of the Social Democratic and Labour Party and co-recipient of the 1998 Nobel Peace Prize, with David Trimble. He was the second leader of the Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP), a position he held from 1979 until 2001. He has served as a Member of the European Parliament and a Member of Parliament for Foyle, as well as a member of the Northern Ireland Assembly.
- Andrew Smith
Andrew David Smith (born February 1, 1952, near Reading) is a British politician for the Labour Party, and a former member of the Cabinet. He is MP for Oxford East, which he won in 1987 from the Conservative Party. After Labour's victory in the 1997 general election he was made a minister in the Department for Education and Employment. He was Chief Secretary to the Treasury from 1999 to 2002, …
- Robert Brown
Robert Crofton Brown (May 16, 1921-3 September 1996) was an English Labour politician. Brown was a district gas inspector with the Northern Gas Board and a branch secretary of the National Union of General and Municipal Workers. He was secretary of his Constituency Labour Party and a councillor on Newcastle Borough Council. Brown was elected Member of Parliament for Newcastle upon Tyne West in 1966, then for Newcastle upon Tyne North from 1983, retiring in 1987.
- John Williams
John Williams (1861-June 20 1922) was a Welsh Labour Party politician. At the 1906 general election, Williams was first elected as Member of Parliament for the Welsh constituency of Gower in West Glamorgan. He held the seat until his death in 1922, at the age of 60.
- Tam Dalyell
Sir Thomas Dalyell of the Binns, 11th Baronet (born August 9, 1932), known as Tam Dalyell, is a Scottish politician and was a Labour member of the House of Commons from 1962 to 2005. Dalyell was born in England but raised in his mother's family home, The Binns, near Linlithgow, West Lothian; his father (Percy) Gordon Loch, C.I.E., a scion of the family of Loch of Drylaw, was an Empire civil servant (Political Agent) and through his mother he is a baronet, …
- Gerry Adams
Gerard Adams
- Neil Hamilton
Mostyn Neil Hamilton (born March 9, 1949) is a former barrister, teacher and Conservative Member of Parliament in the United Kingdom. Since leaving politics and subsequent bankruptcy, Hamilton and his wife Christine have become minor media celebrities. He appeared at the premiere of Da Ali G Show
- John George
Sir John Clarke George, KBE, CStJ (16 October, 1901 - 14 October, 1972) was a British coalminer and politician. He was one of a very small band of Conservative Members of Parliament to have been working miners.
- 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
- Robert Peel
Sir Robert Peel, 2nd Baronet (5 February 1788 - 2 July 1850) was the Conservative Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from December 10, 1834 to April 8, 1835, and again from August 30, 1841 to June 29, 1846. He helped create the modern concept of the police force while Home Secretary, oversaw the formation of the Conservative Party out of the shattered Tory Party, and repealed the Corn Laws.
- James Callaghan
Leonard James Callaghan, Baron Callaghan of Cardiff, KG, PC (27 March, 1912 – 26 March, 2005), was Labour Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1976 to 1979. Known as Jim for short (and nicknamed 'Sunny Jim' or 'Big Jim'), Callaghan is the only person to have served in the four Great Offices of State: Prime Minister, Chancellor of the Exchequer, Home Secretary and Foreign Secretary.
- 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.
- James Callaghan
James Callaghan (born January 28, 1927) is an British Labour politician. He was educated at Manchester and London universities, and he worked as a Lecturer in Art at St John's College, Manchester, before entering Parliament. At the February 1974 general election, he was elected Member of Parliament for Middleton and Prestwich, and he served this constituency and its successor, Heywood and Middleton, until 1997.
- John Hutton
John Matthew Patrick Hutton (born 6 May 1955, London) is a politician in the United Kingdom. He is Labour Member of Parliament for Barrow and Furness in Cumbria and the current Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform. John Hutton was educated at Westcliff High School for Boys and Magdalen College, Oxford, where he was an active member of the University Conservative Association.