- 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.
- 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, …
- 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.
- 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, …
- 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, …
- 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 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.
- 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
- 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.
- 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
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Hilary Benn
Hilary James Wedgwood Benn (November 26, 1953) is a British Labour politician, currently serving as the Secretary of State for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs and the Member of Parliament for the West Yorkshire constituency of Leeds Central. In October 2006 Benn announced he was running for the Deputy Leadership of the Labour Party, eventually coming fourth behind Harriet Harman, Alan Johnson and Jon Cruddas.
- Tessa Jowell
Tessa Jowell (born September 17, 1947 in London) is a British politician. She is the Labour MP for Dulwich and West Norwood, and since 28 June 2007 has been Paymaster General and Minister for London. She is also Minister for the Olympics, a role which she initially combined with being Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport following the selection of London to host the 2012 Olympic Games.
- 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.
- James Purnell
James Mark Dakin Purnell (born 2 March 1970, London) is a British politician. He was appointed Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport on 28th June 2007. He has been the Labour MP for Stalybridge and Hyde since the 2001 general election. He was educated at Balliol College, Oxford, obtaining first class honours in PPE.
- 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.
- 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.
- Geoff Hoon
Geoffrey William Hoon (born December 6 1953) is a British politician. He is Labour Member of Parliament for Ashfield, and Chief Whip and Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasury since Gordon Brown became Prime Minister.
- James Brown
Rt. Hon. James Brown (16 December 1862 - 21 March 1939) was a Scottish Labour politician. Educated at Annbank Public School, he was Secretary of the Ayrshire Miners and of the Scottish Miners' National Union. He unsuccessfully contested North Ayrshire in 1910 and was Member of Parliament for South Ayrshire from 1918-1931 and from 1935 until his death. He was awarded the OBE in 1917, appointed a Privy Counsellor in 1930.
- Shimon Peres
"' (born Szymon Perski"' on August 2, 1923 in eastern Poland) is the 9th President of the State of Israel. He is a senior Israeli statesman with a political career spanning more than 65 years. He joined the Knesset in November 1959 and, except for a three-month-long hiatus in early 2006, served continuously until June 13, 2007, the day he was elected President of Israel.
- Frank Field
Frank Ernest Field (born July 16, 1942) is a British politician and author. He is the Labour Member of Parliament for Birkenhead. Born in London with a violent father, he was educated at St Clement Danes School in Hammersmith before studying at the University of Hull where he was awarded a Bachelor of Science degree.
- Alan Milburn
Alan Milburn (born 27 January 1958, Tow Law, County Durham) is a British politician. He is Labour MP for Darlington, and served in the Cabinet as Secretary of State for Health until he resigned citing lack of balance with his family life, and rejoined it as Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster for oversight of Labour's 2005 re-election campaign.
- William Rees-Mogg
William Rees-Mogg, Baron Rees-Mogg (b. July 14 1928, Bristol, England) is a journalist, writer and politician in the United Kingdom. After being educated at Charterhouse and Balliol College, Oxford, he began his career at "The Financial Times", before moving to "The Sunday Times". Here he wrote an article which many believe convinced Alec Douglas-Home to resign as Tory leader, making way for Edward Heath, in July 1965.
- David Davies
David Thomas Charles Davies (born July 27, 1970) is a British politician. He is the Conservative Member of Parliament for Monmouth.
- Rhodri Morgan
Hywel Rhodri Morgan, PC AM (born 29 September 1939) is a Welsh politician; the Labour National Assembly for Wales Member for the constituency of Cardiff West; and the second and current First Minister for Wales.
- 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.
- Austin Mitchell
Austin Vernon Mitchell (born 19 September 1934) is the Labour Member of Parliament for Great Grimsby in England.
- Kerron Cross
Kerron James Cross (born August 21, 1977) is a Labour politican and blogger. His blog was rated as the top Labour blog by commentator Iain Dale in 2006. Cross was candidate for South West Hertfordshire at the May 2005 general election in the United Kingdom. He is a member of the Christian Socialist Movement national executive and was elected Vice Chair of the Movement in 2007. He is a long-serving Parliamentary Research assistant for Andy Reed, Member of Parliament.
- Trevor Phillips
Trevor Phillips OBE (born in London on December 31 1953) is a Black British Labour politician and former political journalist of Guyanese origins. After supporting multiculturalism for many years, Phillips is now one of its most outspoken mainstream critics. He expressed fears that multiculturalism could cause Britain to "sleepwalk towards segregation" and has argued for school selection to be amended to prevent segregation in British schools..
- Caroline Flint
Caroline Louise Flint (born 20 September 1961 in Twickenham, England) is a British Labour politician. She is the Member of Parliament for Don Valley in Northern England, the Minister of State in the Department of Work and Pensions and the Minister for Yorkshire and the Humber.
- 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, …
- Frank Dobson
Frank Gordon Dobson (born March 15, 1940) is a British politician and member of Parliament for Holborn and St. Pancras, for Labour.
- Shaun Woodward
Shaun Anthony Woodward MP (born 26 October 1958, Bristol) is a British politician, Secretary of State for Northern Ireland and Labour Member of Parliament for St Helens South.
- Leighton Andrews
Leighton Andrews (born August 11, 1957, in Cardiff) is a Welsh Labour politician, currently the National Assembly for Wales member for Rhondda since 2003.
- Donald Dewar
Donald Campbell Dewar (August 21, 1937 - October 11, 2000) was the first First Minister of Scotland from 1999 until his death in 2000. He was the first person to hold the position of First Minister following the establishment of the Scottish Parliament in 1999. Dewar was first elected to the British House of Commons in 1966, later becoming Secretary of State for Scotland in 1997 following the election of a Labour government under Tony Blair.
- John Denham
John Yorke Denham (born July 15, 1953) British politician, Labour Member of Parliament for Southampton Itchen and Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills. John Denham was born in Seaton and was educated at Woodroffe Comprehensive School, Lyme Regis and the University of Southampton, where he took a degree in Chemistry, and was president of the Students' Union in the academic year 1976-77.
- Derek Conway
Derek Leslie Conway, TD (February 15, 1953) is a British politician and Member of Parliament. He is the Conservative Member of Parliament for Old Bexley and Sidcup. Derek Conway was born in Newcastle upon Tyne and was educated at the Beacon Hills Boys' School in the city, Gateshead Technical College, and the Newcastle upon Tyne Polytechnic. He was elected as a councillor on the Metropolitan Borough of Gateshead council, aged 21, …
- Paul Flynn
Paul Philip Flynn (born February 9, 1935) is a British politician. He is the Labour Member of Parliament for Newport West. Paul Flynn was born in Cardiff of Welsh/Irish parentage.