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The Labour Party is a centre-left political party in the United Kingdom. Founded at the start of the 20th century, it has been seen since 1920 as the principal party of the Left in England, Scotland and Wales, but not Northern Ireland, where it has only recently begun to organise again. Labour...
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Tony Benn
Anthony "Tony" Neil Wedgwood Benn (born 3 April 1925), formerly 2nd Viscount Stansgate, is a British Labour politician, and the current President of the Stop the War Coalition.
With his successful campaign to renounce his inherited title, a landmark...
Leslie Plummer
Sir Leslie Arthur Plummer, known to friends as Dick (2 June 1901 – 15 April 1963) was a British farmer, newspaper executive and politician. He was in charge of the Overseas Food Corporation during the disastrous Tanganyika groundnut scheme in the...
Jim Fitzpatrick
James "Jim" Fitzpatrick (born 4 April 1952) is a British Labour politician, who has been the Member of Parliament for Poplar and Canning Town since 1997, and is Minister of State for Farming and the Environment at the Department for Environment,...
David Rees-Williams, 1st Baron Ogmore
David Rees Rees-Williams, 1st Baron Ogmore, TD, PC (22 November 1903 – 30 August 1976) was a British politician.
Rees-Williams was born in Bridgend, Wales. He qualified as a solicitor in 1929 and married and had three children. Commissioned into the...
H. T. Muggeridge
Henry Thomas "H.T.M." Muggeridge (26 June 1864 - March 1942) was a UK politician and father of famous author and journalist, Malcolm Muggeridge.
HTM was born the son of a Penge undertaker on 26 June 1864. When the family was abandoned by his father,...
Andrew Slaughter
Andrew Francis Slaughter (born 29 September 1960, London) is a United Kingdom politician. He is Member of Parliament for Ealing, Acton and Shepherd's Bush in London and was previously Leader of the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham Council....
Shahid Malik
Shahid Malik (born 24 November 1967) is a British Labour politician, who has been the Member of Parliament for Dewsbury since 2005. He is currently a Parliamentary Under Secretary of State in the Department for Communities and Local Government....
Ed Miliband
Edward "Ed" Samuel Miliband (born 24 December 1969) is a British Labour politician, who has been the Member of Parliament for Doncaster North since 2005 and is the current Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change. Before that, he served as...
Gordon Brown
James Gordon Brown (born 20 February 1951) is the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and Leader of the Labour Party. Brown became Prime Minister in June 2007, after the resignation of Tony Blair and three days after becoming leader of the...
David Hanson
David George Hanson PC (born 5 July 1957) British politician. He is the Labour Member of Parliament for Delyn and is the Minister of State for Security, Counter-Terrorism, Crime and Policing
David Hanson was born in Liverpool, Merseyside, the son of...
George Thomas, 1st Viscount Tonypandy
Thomas George Thomas, 1st Viscount Tonypandy, PC (29 January 1909 – 22 September 1997) was a British Labour politician and Speaker of the British House of Commons.
Thomas George Thomas (born Port Talbot, Wales) was the second son of Zachariah Thomas...
Roy Hattersley
Roy Sydney George Hattersley, Baron Hattersley (born 28 December 1932) is a British Labour politician, author and journalist from Sheffield. He served as Deputy Leader of the Labour Party from 1983 to 1992.
Roy Hattersley has been a socialist and...
Hugh Gaitskell
Hugh Todd Naylor Gaitskell (9 April 1906 – 18 January 1963) was a British Labour politician, who served in a number of Cabinet positions under various governments, and was the Leader of the Labour Party and Leader of the Opposition from 1955, until...
Barbara Castle
Barbara Anne Castle, Baroness Castle of Blackburn, PC, GCOT (6 October 1910 – 3 May 2002) was a British left-wing politician, born Barbara Anne Betts in Chesterfield, Derbyshire (and brought up in Pontefract and Bradford, Yorkshire), who adopted her...
James Sheridan
James Sheridan (known as Jim Sheridan) (born 24 November 1952) is a Labour Party politician in the United Kingdom. In the 2005 General Election, Sheridan was elected as Member of Parliament (MP) for Paisley & Renfrewshire North, Scotland.
He was...
John Smith
John Smith (13 September 1938 - 12 May 1994) was a Scottish Labour politician who was the Member of Parliament for Monklands East from 1970 and the Leader of the Opposition from July 1992 until his sudden death from a heart attack in May 1994.
John...
Glenda Jackson
Glenda May Jackson, CBE (born 9 May 1936) is an English actress and politician, currently Labour Member of Parliament for the constituency of Hampstead and Highgate in the London Borough of Camden.
She was born in Birkenhead on the Wirral, where her...
Denis Healey
Denis Winston Healey, Baron Healey CH, MBE, PC (born 30 August 1917) is an British Labour politician, who served as Secretary of State for Defence from 1964 to 1970 and Chancellor of the Exchequer from 1974 to 1979.
Healey was born in Bramley, Leeds...
Geoff Hoon
Geoffrey "Geoff" William Hoon (born 6 December 1953) is a British Labour politician, who has been the Member of Parliament for Ashfield since 1992, and served in the Cabinet as Defence Secretary, Transport Secretary, Leader of the House of Commons...
George Lansbury
George Lansbury (21 February 1859 – 7 May 1940) was a British politician, socialist, Christian pacifist and newspaper editor. He was a Member of Parliament from 1910 to 1912 and from 1922 to 1940, and leader of the Labour Party from 1932 to 1935....
Ken Livingstone
Kenneth Robert Livingstone (born 17 June 1945) is a British Labour politician; he has twice held the leading political role in London local government, firstly as Leader of the Greater London Council from 1981 until the council was abolished in 1986...
Dawn Butler
Dawn Petula Butler (born 3 November 1969) is a British Labour politician who has been the Member of Parliament for Brent South since 2005, and is Minister for Young Citizens and Youth Engagement in the Cabinet Office. She was born in London to...
Gerald Kaufman
Sir Gerald Bernard Kaufman (born in Leeds, 21 June 1930) is a British Labour politician, who has been the Member of Parliament for Manchester Gorton since 1983, and was both a government minister during the 1970s, and a member of the Shadow Cabinet...
Stuart Bell
Sir Stuart Bell (born 16 May 1938) is a British Labour Party politician and Member of Parliament for Middlesbrough.
Bell was born in County Durham in 1938, the son of a miner. He attended the Hookergate Grammar School (now known as Hookergate School...
Shirley Williams, Baroness Williams of Crosby
Shirley Williams, The Baroness Williams of Crosby PC (born 27 July 1930) is a British politician and academic. Originally a Labour Member of Parliament (MP) and Cabinet Minister, she was one of the "Gang of Four" rebels who founded the Social...
Jim Dowd
James Patrick Dowd (5 March 1951) is a British Labour politician. He is the Member of Parliament for Lewisham West.
Jim Dowd was born in Bad Eilsen in Lower Saxony, Germany and grew up in Lewisham, London with an Irish father and German mother. He...
Emily Thornberry
Emily Anne Thornberry (born 27 July 1960, north Surrey) is a British Labour Party politician. She has been Member of Parliament for Islington South and Finsbury since 2005. She was raised by her mother, who was a Labour councillor and former Mayor,...
Lynne Jones
Lynne Mary Jones (born 26 April 1951) is a British Labour politician, who has been the Member of Parliament for Birmingham Selly Oak since 1992.
Born in Birmingham, Lynne Jones studied biochemistry at the University of Birmingham, eventually earning...
Sadiq Khan
Sadiq Aman Khan (born 8 October 1970) is a British Labour politician. He was elected Member of Parliament for Tooting in the 2005 general election, succeeding Tom Cox as the Labour MP for the seat.
He had been Parliamentary Private Secretary to Jack...
Natascha Engel
Natascha Engel (born 9 April 1967) is a British Labour politician, who has been the Member of Parliament for North East Derbyshire since 2005. She has extensive involvement in the trade union movement and has close connections to Gordon Brown....
Kitty Ussher
Katharine "Kitty" Anne Ussher (born 18 March 1971) is a British Labour politician, who has been the Member of Parliament for Burnley since 2005, succeeding Peter Pike. Ussher formerly held the position of Exchequer Secretary to the Treasury in...
Angela Christine Smith
Angela Christine Smith (born 16 August 1961) is a British Labour politician, who has been the Member of Parliament for Sheffield Hillsborough since May 2005.
Angela Smith grew up in Grimsby, where her grandfather had been the Mayor. She went to...
Jamie Reed
Jamieson Ronald Reed (born August 4, 1973) is the Labour Member of Parliament for the UK constituency of Copeland, elected in the 2005 general election. He replaced Copeland's long-serving former MP Jack Cunningham.
Mr Reed has spent a long time in...
Lyn Brown
Lyn Carol Brown (born 13 April 1960) British politician. She is the Labour Member of Parliament for West Ham.
Lyn Brown was educated at local state schools within the London Borough of Newham and the Whitelands College, Putney (now part of...
Roberta Blackman-Woods
Roberta Carol Blackman-Woods (née Woods; born 16 August 1957, Belfast, Northern Ireland) is a Labour Party politician in the United Kingdom. She has been Member of Parliament for the City of Durham constituency since May 2005.
Blackman-Woods is from...
Kerry McCarthy
Kerry McCarthy (born 26 March 1965, Luton) is a British Labour Party politician who was elected Member of Parliament for Bristol East in the 2005 general election. She was selected as the Labour candidate for the constituency through a controversial...
Mary Creagh
Mary Helen Creagh (born 2 December 1967) is a British Labour politician, who has been the Member of Parliament for Wakefield since 2005.
Mary Creagh was born and brought up in Coventry of Irish parentage, her father a car factory worker and her...
John Prescott
John Leslie Prescott (born 31 May 1938) is a Welsh politician, who has been the Labour Member of Parliament for Hull East since 1970; from 1997 to 2007, he was the Deputy Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, also serving as First Secretary of State...
Robin Cook
Robert Finlayson Cook (28 February 1946 – 6 August 2005) was a British Labour politician, who was the Member of Parliament for Livingston from 1983 until his death, and notably served in the Cabinet as Foreign Secretary from 1997 to 2001.
He...
Gwyneth Dunwoody
Gwyneth Patricia Dunwoody (née Phillips; 12 December 1930 – 17 April 2008) was a British Labour politician, who was the Member of Parliament for Exeter from 1966 to 1970, and then for Crewe (later Crewe and Nantwich) from 1974 to her death in 2008....
Andrew Gwynne
Andrew John Gwynne (born 4 June 1974) is the Labour Party Member of Parliament for the Denton and Reddish constituency. He was elected at the 2005 general election, replacing the retiring Andrew Bennett.
Born in Manchester, where he grew up, he was...
Anne Snelgrove
Anne Christine Snelgrove (born 7 August 1957) is a British Labour politician, who has been the Member of Parliament for Swindon South since 2005; since June 2009, she has been a Parliamentary Private Secretary to Prime Minister Gordon Brown.
She was...
Helen Goodman
Helen Catherine Goodman (born January 2, 1958, Nottingham) is a British Labour Party politician. She is the MP for Bishop Auckland in County Durham and the Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Pensions Reform in the Department for Work and...
David Anderson
David Anderson, known as Dave Anderson, (born 2 December 1953) is a British Labour politician. He is the Member of Parliament for Blaydon.
Born in Sunderland, Anderson was educated at the Maltby Grammar School (became Maltby Comprehensive School in...
Madeleine Moon
Madeleine Moon (born 27 March 1950, Sunderland) is the Labour Member of Parliament for Bridgend. She was elected in the 2005 general election, after Win Griffiths stood down.
Born in the North East of England, Moon attended Whinney Hill Girls School...
Sharon Hodgson
Sharon Hodgson (born Sharon Cohen 1 April 1966) is a British politician and is the Labour Member of Parliament for Gateshead East and Washington West.
Sharon Hodgson was born in Gateshead, Tyneside and was educated locally at the Greenwell Junior...
Celia Barlow
Celia Anne Barlow (born 28 September 1955) is a British Labour politician, who has been the Member of Parliament for Hove since 2005.
Celia Barlow was born in Cardiff, Wales, and was educated at the University of Cambridge and Cardiff University....
Nia Griffith
Nia Rhiannon Griffith (born Dublin 4 December 1956) is a British politician. She is the Labour Member of Parliament (MP) for Llanelli in Wales.
Her family comes from mining villages near Neath, in South Wales. Her father was Professor T. Gwynfor...
Jessica Morden
Jessica Elizabeth Morden (born May 29, 1968) is the Labour MP for Newport East. She was elected in the 2005 general election, replacing Alan Howarth.
Brought up in nearby Cwmbran and educated at Croesyceiliog School before reading History at...
Katy Clark
Katy Clark (born 3 July 1967, Kilwinning) is a British politician and former trade union official. She is the Labour Member of Parliament for North Ayrshire and Arran.
She went to Ayr Grammar Primary School, then Kyle Academy, Overmills Road, both...
Gordon Banks
Gordon Raymond Banks (born 14 June 1955) is a British Labour Party politician and is the Member of Parliament for Ochil and South Perthshire.
Banks was born in Acomb, Northumberland and educated at the Lornshill Academy in Alloa and then the Glasgow...
Alison Seabeck
Alison Jane Seabeck (born 20 January 1954 in Dagenham) is the Labour MP for Plymouth Devonport.
She went to Harold Hill Grammar School (became Upper Bedfords Park School in 1973 then closed down) on Appleby Drive in Harold Hill in London. She...
Robert Flello
Robert Charles Douglas Flello (born January 14, 1966) is a British Labour politician, who has been the Member of Parliament for Stoke-on-Trent South since 2005.
Robert Flello was born in Birmingham, West Midlands and attended the local King's Norton...
Lynda Waltho
Lynda Ellen Waltho (born 22 May 1960) is a British Labour politician, who has been the Member of Parliament for Stourbridge since 2005. She was elected after sitting Labour MP Debra Shipley had stepped down due to ill-health just days before the...
Sian James
Siân Catherine James (born June 24, 1959, Morriston, in Swansea) is the Labour Member of Parliament for Swansea East, Wales, in the Parliament of the United Kingdom.
She spent most of her childhood in the Swansea Valley, where her parents ran a...
Pat McFadden
Patrick Bosco McFadden (born 26 March 1965, Paisley) is a British Labour politician, who has been the Member of Parliament for Wolverhampton South East since 2005. Currently, he is a Minister of State in the Department for Business, Innovation and...
Barbara Keeley
Barbara Keeley (born 26 March 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. Since June 2009 she has been Deputy...
Rosie Cooper
Rosemary Elizabeth 'Rosie' Cooper (born 5 September 1950) is a British politician. She is the Labour Member of Parliament for West Lancashire.
Cooper was born in Liverpool, the daughter of deaf parents. She was educated locally, initially at St...
Tom Steele
Tom Steele (15 November 1905 – 28 May 1979) was a Scottish Labour politician.
Steele worked as a station master and served on the board of the Lanark Co-operative Society.
Steele was elected as Member of Parliament for the constituency of Lanark in...
James McGovern
James McGovern (born 17 November 1956 in Glasgow) is a British politician, and is the Labour Member of Parliament for the Dundee West.
McGovern was educated at the Catholic Lawside Academy in Dundee and became a glazier. In 1987, after being made...
