Political Profiles

Jess Phillips, has been the Labour MP for Birmingham Yardley since 2015. Despite her criticisms of the Corbynite left, Philips actually quit the Labour Party in 2005 over her opposition to the Iraq War.Read More

John Prescott served as Deputy Prime Minister between 1997 and 2007. Once a ship steward, and a waiter, in 1957, Prescott served the former Prime Minister Anthony Eden only nine days after his resignation.Read More

Angela Rayner is the Deputy Leader of the Labour Party. She previously announced becoming a grandmother at the comparatively young age of 37, with the Twitter hashtag #Grangela.Read More

A former Bank of England economist, `Rachel Reeves is the current Shadow Chancellor. Her husband was once a speech writer for Gordon Brown, during his time as Chancellor.Read More

Prime Minister between 1997 and 2007, Tony Blair is the only Labour leader to have won three consecutive General Elections. As Chairman of the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change, he has started to become more active again on the broadcast media in recent times.Read More

Keir Starmer was elected Labour leader in 2020 with 56% of the vote. Before being first elected to Parliament in 2015, he was the Director of Public Prosecutions. Starmer is also an amateur footballer and vegetarian.Read More

Nick Thomas-Symonds is the Shadow International Trade Secteary. Little known by the public when Shadow Home Secretary, he is a former barrister, who has written a number of political biographies. He met his wife at school.Read More

Having served as Deputy Leader of the Labour Party between 2015 and 2019, Watson stood down from Parliament just a few weeks before his seat was gained by the Conservatives in 2019. Now a gym enthusiast, he still retains his love of music and video games.Read More