- 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 Clinton
George Clinton (c.1686 - 10 July 1761) was a British naval officer and political leader who served as the colonial governor of Newfoundland in 1731 and of New York from 1743 to 1753. Clinton was the youngest son of the 6th Earl of Lincoln and connected by marriage to the Duke of Newcastle and Henry Pelham. He joined the Royal Navy in 1708 and served for 35 years. In 1732, he was commissioned as a commodore and appointed governor of Newfoundland, …
- Javier Solana
JAVIER SOLANA President of Madariaga European Foundation Dr. Javier Solana was born in Madrid on 14 July, 1942. He is married to Concepción Giménez and has two children. He has a Doctorate in Physics, and was a Fullbright scholar at several American universities. A Professor of Solid-state Physics at Madrid Complutense University, he is the author of over thirty publications in his field. He is a member of the Spanish Chapter of the Club of Rome.
- 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.
- 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.
- Edmund Burke
Edmund Burke (January 12, 1729 - July 9, 1797) was an Irish statesman, author, orator, political theorist, and philosopher, who served for many years in the British House of Commons as a member of the Whig party. He is mainly remembered for his support of the American colonies in the dispute with King George III and Great Britain that led to the American Revolution and for his strong opposition to the French Revolution.
- 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.
- 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 .
- Jim Anderton
James Patrick Anderton, (born 21 January 1938) almost always referred to as Jim Anderton, is leader of the Progressive Party, a political party in the New Zealand Parliament. He has served in Parliament since 1984. He served as Deputy Prime Minister from 1999 to 2002.
- 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.
- Iain Duncan Smith
George Ian Duncan Smith MP (born 9 April 1954), often referred to as IDS, is a British politician. He is Member of Parliament for the constituency of Chingford and Woodford Green. He was leader of the Conservative Party from 12 September 2001 to 6 November 2003. He lost a vote of confidence on 29 October of that year and stepped down eight days later, with Michael Howard assuming the post.
- David Jones
David Ian Jones (born 22 March 1952), is a Conservative politician. He is Member of Parliament (MP) for Clwyd West.
- Simon Hughes
Simon Henry Ward Hughes (born 17 May 1951) is a British politician and Liberal Democrat Member of Parliament for North Southwark and Bermondsey. He has twice run unsuccessfully for the leadership of the party and was its unsuccessful candidate for Mayor of London in 2004. He is currently Liberal Democrat Shadow Leader to the House of Commons and has been President of the Liberal Democrats since September 1, 2004.
- Michael Martin
Michael John Martin MP (born 3 July 1945) is the current Speaker of the House of Commons in the United Kingdom.
- 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.
- Malcolm Turnbull
Malcolm Bligh Turnbull (born 24 October 1954), Australian politician, is the Federal Minister for Environment and Water Resources. He is a Liberal member of the Australian House of Representatives, representing the Division of Wentworth in Sydney's eastern suburbs since October 2004. He was a barrister, merchant banker, and leader of the Australian Republican Movement before entering parliamentary politics.
- Liam Fox
Dr. Liam Fox (born September 22 1961) is a UK Conservative politician, currently Shadow Defence Secretary and Member of Parliament for Woodspring.
- Viviane Reding
Viviane Reding European Union Commissioner for Information Society and Media
- Sue Bradford
The New Zealand politician Sue Bradford (born 1952) serves as a list Member of Parliament representing the Green Party.
- Caroline Lucas
Caroline Patricia Lucas PhD (born 9 December 1960 in Malvern, Worcestershire) is an English politician, and Member of the European Parliament for the South East England Region. She is a member of the Green Party of England and Wales and has been an MEP since 1999. She is one of two Green MEPs from the UK: the other is Jean Lambert MEP. She is noted for campaigning and writing on Green economics, localisation, alternatives to globalisation, trade justice, …
- Lee Hsien Loong
Lee Hsien Loong (born February 10 1952) is the third and current Prime Minister of Singapore. He also serves as the Minister for Finance. Lee Hsien Loong is the eldest son of Singapore's first Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew and is married to Ho Ching, who is the Executive Director & Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the government-owned Temasek Holdings.
- John A. MacDonald
Sir John Alexander Macdonald, GCB, KCMG, PC, QC, DCL, LL.D (January 11, 1815 - June 6, 1891) was the first Prime Minister of Canada. Macdonald's tenure in office spanned 19 years, making him the second longest serving Prime Minister of Canada. He is the only Canadian Prime Minister to win six majority governments and won praise for having helped forge a nation of sprawling geographic size, with two diverse European colonial origins, …
- Simon Findlay Crean
Simon Crean is the Minister for Trade and the member for Hotham (Victoria) in the Parliament of Australia. After graduating from Monash University, Mr Crean assumed several trade union leadership positions, including assistant general secretary and general secretary of the Federated Storemen and Packers Union of Australia from 1976-1985. In 1985, he was elected president of the Australian Council of Trade Unions (ACTU), having been active in the organisation since 1981.
- 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.
- Matthew Taylor
Matthew Owen John Taylor (born 3 January 1963) is a politician in the United Kingdom. He is Liberal Democrat Member of Parliament for Truro and St Austell in Cornwall.
- Frits Bolkestein
Frits Bolkestein (The Netherlands) is Professor of Intellectual Foundations of Political Developments at the Universities of Leiden and Delft (NL). He is former Member of the European Commission for the Internal Market (1999-2004), former Dutch Minister of Defence, former Minister of Foreign Trade and former Director of Shell Chimie, Paris.
- Keith Locke
Keith Locke (born 1944) is a current New Zealand MP representing the Green Party who was first elected to parliament in 1999. As of 2006 he is the Green Party spokesperson on Auckland Transport, Civil Defence, Customs, Defence, Disarmament, Ethnic Affairs, Foreign Affairs, Human Rights, Immigration, Overseas Development Assistance, Pacific Island Affairs, Police, Security and Intelligence, Sports, Fitness and Leisure, Trade and Veterans' Affairs.
- Chris Grayling
Christopher Stephen Grayling (born April 1, 1962) British politician. He is the Conservative Member of Parliament for Epsom and Ewell and the Shadow Secretary of State for Transport. Chris Grayling was born in London and grew up in Buckinghamshire. He was educated at the Royal Grammar School, High Wycombe, and Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge where he was awarded a Bachelor of Arts degree in history in 1984. He joined BBC News in 1985 as a trainee, …
- Steve Webb
Steven John Webb, better known as Steve Webb, is a British politician, the Member of Parliament for Northavon and the Chair of the Liberal Democrats Election Manifesto Team.
- 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.
- 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, …
- Paul Holmes
Paul Robert Holmes (born 16 January 1957, Sheffield) is a politician in the United Kingdom. He is Liberal Democrat parliamentary party chairman and Member of Parliament for Chesterfield, previously held by Tony Benn, and was first elected in 2001being reelected with an increased majority in 2005. Before becoming an MP, Holmes was a history teacher for 22 years. His election as chairman of the parliamentary party in 2005 was a surprise to many, …
- Dominic Grieve
Dominic Charles Roberts Grieve (born May 24, 1956) British politician and barrister. He is the Conservative Member of Parliament for Beaconsfield and is the shadow Attorney General and one of the shadow Home Affairs spokesmen. He also has responsibility for community cohesion on behalf of the Conservative Party. Grieve was born in London, the son of Percy Grieve QC, the (MP for Solihull 1964-1983). He was educated at the French Lycee, Colet Court, …
- Jim Fitzpatrick
James "Jim" Fitzpatrick (born April 4, 1952) is a British politician. He is the Labour Member of Parliament for Poplar and Canning Town and is a Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Department for Transport.
- Sheila Copps
Sheila Maureen Copps, PC, HBA, LL.D (hc), (born November 27, 1952, in Hamilton, Ontario) is a Canadian journalist and former politician. Copps is a second-generation member of a political family that has dominated Hamilton-area politics on the municipal, provincial and federal levels. Her father, Victor K. Copps, was one of the most influential mayors of the City of Hamilton; the city's landmark sports arena, Copps Coliseum, is named in his honour.
- Michael Ancram
The Mt. Hon. Michael Andrew Foster Jude Kerr, 13th Marquess of Lothian, PC QC, MP, (born 7 July 1945), known as Michael (Earl of) Ancram, is a United Kingdom Conservative Party politician. He is Member of Parliament for Devizes, and a former member of the Shadow Cabinet.
- Bob Russell
Robert Edward Russell, known as Bob Russell, (born 31 March 1946, London) is a British politician. He has been Liberal Democrat Member of Parliament for Colchester since 1997 (re-elected 2001 and 2005). He was the Liberal Democrat Parliamentary Spokesman on Culture, Media and Sport 2002-2005, but the portfolio is now held by Don Foster. Russell is currently a member of the LibDem's Shadow Defence team. Russell has a majority of 6,277 votes.
- Andrew Duff
Andrew Duff (born 25 December 1950 in Birkenhead, Merseyside) is a Liberal Democrat politician and a Member of the European Parliament for the East of England region of the UK. He initially stood in the 1984 European Parliament election, finishing third with 22.5% of the vote. In the 1989 election he polled 8% of the vote, coming fourth, then in the 1994 election he came third with 20%.
- Libby Davies
Libby Davies (born February 27, 1953) is a Canadian Member of Parliament for the New Democratic Party, representing the riding of Vancouver East in Vancouver, British Columbia. Davies was born in Aldershot, England and emigrated to British Columbia in 1968. Before being elected to Parliament, she participated in many grass-roots political organizations in Vancouver, specifically in the Downtown Eastside area.