- Diana Johnson
Diana Ruth Johnson (born 25 July 1966, Northwich) is a British Labour Party Member of Parliament and former member of the London Assembly. Johnson is a barrister and was a councillor in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets from 1994 to 2002, serving as Chair of social services. She stood unsuccessfully in Brentwood and Ongar at the 2001 general election. She became a member of the London Assembly on 1 March, …
- Maria Miller
Maria Frances Lewis Miller (born March 26, 1964, Wolverhampton) is the Conservative Member of Parliament for Basingstoke. She was elected at the 2005 general election, after the previous MP, Andrew Hunter, stepped down. Brought up in Bridgend, South Wales, Miller joined the Conservative Party in 1983 and studied Economics at the London School of Economics in 1985, before working for a public relations agency and a large multi-national advertising agency, …
- Caroline Spelman
Caroline Alice Spelman (4 May, 1958, East Anglia as Caroline Alice Cormack) is a Conservative politician in the United Kingdom who has served as MP for Meriden, West Midlands since 1997. In July of 2007 she replaced Francis Maude as Conservative Party Chairman in a Shadow Cabinet reshuffle by David Cameron. She is a trustee of the sometimes-controversial Conservative Christian Fellowship, …
- Yvette Cooper
Yvette Cooper (born 20 March 1969) British politician. She is the Labour Member of Parliament for Pontefract and Castleford and is the Minister of State for Housing at the Communities and Local Government government department and attends Gordon Brown's Cabinet with effect from 28 June 2007. Born in Inverness, her father is Tony Cooper, former General Secretary of the Union Prospect, …
- Ann Winterton
Jane Ann Winterton, Lady Winterton (born March 6, 1941 as Jane Ann Hodgson in Sutton Coldfield) is the British Member of Parliament for Congleton, and was first elected as a Conservative MP in 1983. She is married to Sir Nicholas Winterton, who is also a Conservative MP representing the neighbouring constituency of Macclesfield. She has three children with him, one daughter and two sons.
- Lynne Jones
Lynne Mary Jones (born 26 April 1951, Birmingham) is a British Labour Party politician and the Member of Parliament for the Birmingham Selly Oak constituency. Born in Birmingham, Lynne Jones studied biochemistry at the University of Birmingham, eventually earning her Ph.D. in 1979. She also has a post-graduate degree in Housing Studies from Birmingham Polytechnic (now the University of Central England). She has worked in both science and housing, …
- Sandra Gidley
Sandra Julia Gidley (born March 26, 1957) is a British politician, is the Liberal Democrat Member of Parliament for Romsey.
- Oona King
Oona Tamsyn King (born October 22, 1967, in Sheffield) is a British politician. She was the Labour Member of Parliament (MP) for Bethnal Green & Bow from 1997 until the 2005 election, when she was defeated by Respect candidate George Galloway.
- 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.
- Angela Watkinson
Angela Eileen Watkinson (born 18 November, 1941, Leytonstone) is a politician in the United Kingdom. She is Conservative Party Member of Parliament for Upminster, and was first elected in 2001, beating Keith Darvill who had taken the seat from the Conservatives in 1997. She was re-elected with an increased majority in 2005. She lives in Wickford, Essex and is a member and elder of the United Reformed Church.
- Fiona MacTaggart
Fiona Margaret Mactaggart (born 12 September 1953, Glasgow) is a politician in the United Kingdom. She is Labour member of Parliament for the Slough parliamentary constituency.
- Nadine Dorries
Nadine Vanessa Dorries (born 21 May 1957) is a British politician. She is the Conservative Member of Parliament for Mid Bedfordshire.
- Kitty Ussher
Kitty Ussher (born 18 March 1971, Aylesbury) is a politician in the United Kingdom. She has been the member of Parliament for Burnley since the 2005 general election and is a member of the Labour Party. She replaced Peter Pike who had represented Burnley for 22 years. She was Parliamentary Private Secretary to Margaret Hodge MBE the Minister of State at the Department of Trade and Industry until 29 June 2007.
- Julia Goldsworthy
Julia Anne Goldsworthy (born September 10, 1978) is a British politician. She is the Liberal Democrat Member of Parliament for Falmouth and Camborne and shadows the Chief Secretary to the Treasury in the House of Commons.
- Jenny Willott
Jennifer Nancy Willott (born 29 May 1974) is a British politician and the Liberal Democrat Member of Parliament for Cardiff Central since the 2005 general election. She is the first woman and the first Liberal Democrat to represent her seat. Willott has a history of work with charitable organisations such as OXFAM and a women's organisation in North India. She supports the movement of trade justice and has interests in human rights and social justice.
- Susan Kramer
Susan Veronica Kramer (born 22 July 1950) is a London businesswoman and Liberal Democrat Member of Parliament for Richmond Park. Holborn-born, she was educated at St Paul's Girls' School and Oxford University, where she was President of the Oxford Union, and took her MBA at the University of Illinois. She is a former vice-president of Citibank Chicago.
- Julie Morgan
Julie Morgan MP (born 2 November 1944) is a Labour politician in Wales. She is the Member of Parliament for Cardiff North, first elected at the 1997 election and returned in 2001 and 2005. She is married to the First Minister of Wales, Rhodri Morgan.
- Lynne Featherstone
Lynne Choona Featherstone (born December 20 1951), is a British politician, being the Liberal Democrat Member of Parliament for Hornsey and Wood Green. She was born and brought up in North London and educated at the Highgate Primary School, South Hampstead High School and Oxford Polytechnic. She has lived in the Hornsey and Wood Green constituency for over thirty years.
- Margaret Hodge
The Right Honourable Margaret Eve, Lady Hodge, MBE (née Margaret Oppenheimer; born 8 September 1944, Cairo) is a British politician and Labour Party Member of Parliament for Barking. She was the first Minister for Children appointed in a newly created post within the Department for Education and Skills in 2001. She is presently a Minister of State in the Department for Culture, Media and Sport.
- Clare Short
Clare Short (born 15 February, 1946) is a British politician and a member of the British Labour Party. She is currently the Independent Member of Parliament for Birmingham Ladywood, having been elected as a Labour Party MP in 1983, and was Secretary of State for International Development in the UK Labour government from 3 May, 1997 until her resignation on 12 May, 2003. She plans to stand down as a Member of Parliament at the next general election.
- Meg Hillier
Margaret Hillier known as Meg Hillier (born February 14, 1969) is a British politician and Labour and Co-operative Party Member of Parliament for Hackney South and Shoreditch and a junior government minister. Hillier was educated at St Hilda's College, Oxford and during her time there was elected Librarian of the Oxford Union Society. She was not prominently involved in the Oxford University Labour Club.
- Cheryl Gillan
Cheryl Elise Kendall Gillan (born 21 April, 1952 in Llandaff, Cardiff) is the Conservative Member of Parliament for Chesham and Amersham and Shadow Secretary of State for Wales.
- Patsy Calton
Patsy Calton (19 September 1948 - 29 May 2005) (born Patricia Yeldon) was a British politician, and was a Liberal Democrat politician, and Member of Parliament (MP) for the constituency of Cheadle in Greater Manchester. She was first elected at the 2001 general election, with a 33 vote majority over the sitting Conservative MP Stephen Day. She held her seat in the 2005 general election with a majority of 4,020 votes over Stephen Day, …
- Karen Buck
Karen Patricia Buck (born August 30, 1958) British politician. She is the Labour member of Parliament for Regent's Park and Kensington North and a former Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Department for Transport.
- Annette Brooke
Annette Lesley Brooke (born June 7, 1947) is a British politician. She is the Liberal Democrat Member of Parliament for Mid Dorset and North Poole. She is currently a Liberal Democrat spokeswomen for Children, Schools and Families. Born Annette Kelly, she was educated at Romford County Technical School, the London School of Economics where she received a degree in economics. She qualified as a teacher at Hughes Hall, Cambridge.
- Lorely Burt
Lorely Jane Burt (born 10 August 1954) is a British politician and the Liberal Democrat Member of Parliament for Solihull. After graduating in economics, Burt began her career in the Prison Service as an assistant governor, before working for several national companies in the field of personnel and training. She later set up a training company, worked as a director in the marketing and financial services sector, …
- Gillian Merron
Gillian Joanna Merron (born 12 April 1959) is a politician in the United Kingdom. She is the Labour Member of Parliament for Lincoln. She is currently a Parliamentary Secretary based at the Cabinet Office and Minister for the East Midlands. Educated at Wanstead High School in Wanstead in east London and the University of Lancaster gaining a BSc(Hons) in Management Sciences, …
- Louise Ellman
Louise Ellman (born 14 November 1945) is the Labour and Co-operative Member of Parliament for Liverpool Riverside.
- 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
- Alison Seabeck
Alison Jane Seabeck (born January 20, 1954 in Dagenham) is the Labour MP for Plymouth Devonport.
- Meg Munn
Margaret Patricia Munn (born 24 August 1959, Sheffield), is a politician in the United Kingdom. She is Labour Co-operative Member of Parliament for Sheffield Heeley, and was first elected at the 2001 general election. She is currently a Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office.
- Eleanor Laing
Eleanor Fulton Laing, née Pritchard, (born 1 February 1958, Paisley) is a British politician. She is Conservative Member of Parliament for Epping Forest, and was first elected in 1997. Currently she serves as Shadow Minister for Women. Laing contested Paisley North in the 1987 general election. When Laing was first elected to the Epping Forest seat in 1997, the seat had been made a marginal by the Labour landslide.
- Gwyneth Dunwoody
Gwyneth Dunwoody (born in Fulham, London, December 12, 1930, as Gwyneth Patricia Phillips), is the longest-serving woman Member of the Parliament of the United Kingdom
- Edwina Currie
Edwina Currie Jones née Cohen, (born 13 October 1946) is a former British Member of Parliament. She served from 1983 to 1997 as a Conservative Party MP, including three years as Junior Health Minister, before resigning in 1988 because of a controversy over salmonella in eggs.
- Theresa Villiers
Theresa Anne Villiers (born March 5, 1968, London) is a British Conservative politician, and the Member of Parliament for Chipping Barnet. Theresa was educated at the University of Bristol, where she took a First Class degree in Law (1990) and went on to obtain a BCL from Jesus College, Oxford (1991). After graduating she worked as a barrister and as a lecturer (1994-99) at King's College London.
- Ann Clwyd
Ann Clwyd Roberts (born 21 March 1937, Denbigh) is a British Labour MP. She has represented Cynon Valley in Wales since 1984.
- Sarah Teather
Sarah Louise Teather (born 1 June 1974, London) is a British Liberal Democrat politician, Member of Parliament for Brent East, Liberal Democrat Shadow Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills, and Chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Guantanamo Bay. She was first elected on 18 September 2003 in the Brent East by-election and re-elected with an increased majority on 5 May 2005 in the 2005 general election.
- Patricia Hewitt
Patricia Hope Hewitt (born 2 December 1948) is a British politician. She is the Labour Member of Parliament (MP) for Leicester West and the former Secretary of State for Health.
- Barbara Keeley
Barbara Keeley (b. March 26, 1952) is the Labour Party Member of Parliament (MP) in the British House of Commons for Worsley. She was elected at the 2005 general election, after the retirement of Terry Lewis. She is married to Colin Huggett. She was educated at Mt St Mary's College, Leeds, and the University of Salford. She was elected as a Labour councillor on Trafford Council in 1995, and served as a member for Priory ward until 2004.
- Deborah Kerr
Deborah Kerr, CBE (born 30 September 1921) is a Golden Globe award winning Scottish actress who is best known today for starring in the films "The King and I", "An Affair to Remember" and "From Here to Eternity". Nominated six times for an Academy Award as Best Actress, she never won, but was a recipient of an Academy Honorary Award for a motion picture career that has always represented "Perfection, Discipline and Elegance".