Christopher Michael Leslie is a debt collection executive and a former British politician who served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Shipley from 1997 to 2005 and Nottingham East from 2010 to 2019. A former member of the Labour Party,he defected to form Change UK and later became an independent politician.
Sir Joseph Alan Meale is a former British Labour Party politician who was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Mansfield from 1987 to 2017.
Christopher Heaton-Harris is a British politician who has served as Secretary of State for Northern Ireland since 6 September 2022. A member of the Conservative Party,he has served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Daventry since 2010.
A by-election was held for the United Kingdom Parliament seat of Leicester South on 15 July 2004. It was triggered by the death of Labour Party Member of Parliament (MP) Jim Marshall,who died on 27 May 2004,shortly before the local and European elections in June. The by-election was won by Parmjit Singh Gill of the Liberal Democrats,over-turning a Labour majority of 13,243 votes at the 2001 general election.
Iain David Wright is a British Labour Party politician who was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Hartlepool from 2004 to 2017,and served also as the Chairman of Business Innovation and Skills Committee. He was previously Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State with responsibility for apprenticeships,and 14 to 19 reform in the Department for Children,Schools and Families until 11 May 2010.
Andrew Francis Slaughter is a British Labour Party politician serving as Member of Parliament (MP) for Hammersmith,previously Ealing,Acton and Shepherd's Bush,since 2005. Prior to his election to Parliament,he had served as Leader of the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham Council.
Tooting is a constituency created in 1974 in Greater London. It is represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2016 by Dr. Rosena Allin-Khan,a member of the Labour Party.
Sadiq Aman Khan is a British politician serving as Mayor of London since 2016. He was previously Member of Parliament (MP) for Tooting from 2005 until 2016. A member of the Labour Party,Khan is on the party's soft left and has been ideologically characterised as a social democrat.
Sir Michael Alan Penning is a British Conservative Party politician,who has served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Hemel Hempstead since 2005.
Kevin Denis Brennan is a Welsh Labour politician serving as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Cardiff West since 2001. He served as a Minister of State at both the Department for Business,Innovation and Skills and the Department for Children,Schools and Families from 2009 to 2010. Brennan held several junior ministerial offices from 2006 to 2009 at the Treasury,Cabinet Office and Department for Children,Schools and Families. In opposition,he served in various shadow ministerial positions from 2010 to 2020 as a Shadow Minister for BIS,Education,and Digital,Culture,Media and Sport (DCMS). He has been Shadow Minister for Victims and Sentencing since September 2023.
The 2009 election of the Speaker of the House of Commons occurred on 22 June 2009 following the resignation of Michael Martin as Speaker during the parliamentary expenses scandal. Martin was the first Speaker since Sir John Trevor in 1695 to be forced out of office. It was the first Speaker election since 11 May 2005,and the first contested election of a Speaker since 23 October 2000.
Emma Elizabeth Reynolds is a British politician who served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Wolverhampton North East from 2010 to 2019. A member of the Labour Party,she attended the shadow cabinets of Miliband and Harman from 2013 to 2015.
Heidi Alexander is a British politician who served as Deputy Mayor of London for Transport from 2018 to 2021. A member of the Labour Party,she was Member of Parliament (MP) for Lewisham East from 2010 to 2018.
These are lists of people who belong to non-European ethnic minorities and have been elected as Members of the House of Commons of the United Kingdom,European Union,and other British devolved assemblies and also Members of the non-elected House of Lords.
Holly Lynch,also known as Holly Walker-Lynch,is a British Labour Party politician serving as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Halifax since 2015. She has served as Opposition Deputy Chief Whip in the House of Commons with responsibility for legislation since 2023.
Rosena Chantelle Allin-Khan is a British politician and medical doctor serving as Member of Parliament (MP) for Tooting since 2016. A member of the Labour Party,she attended shadow cabinet as Shadow Minister for Mental Health from 2020 to 2023.
On 1 December 2016,a by-election was held in the UK parliamentary constituency of Richmond Park. It was triggered by the resignation of the Conservative Member of Parliament Zac Goldsmith on 25 October 2016 over the Government's proposal for a third runway at the nearby Heathrow Airport. It was won by Sarah Olney of the Liberal Democrats,after a campaign focused on opposition to Brexit.
Preet Kaur Gill is a British Labour Party politician serving as Shadow Minister for Primary Care and Public Health since 2023. She has been Member of Parliament (MP) for Birmingham Edgbaston since 2017.
