UK MPs - 2015 Parliament

[Phony Moderate]

Heidi Alexander (Labour - Lewisham East)

What about her?

I don't have anything to say about her; I was hoping someone else would.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Heidi Alexander (Labour - Lewisham East)

Right-wing fixer type with a local government background and elected for an area that (appropriately enough) was once represented by Herbert Morrison. Currently working for Sadiq Khan's Mayoral campaign.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Rushanara Ali (Labour    - Bethnal Green and Bow)

Capable, photogenic and obviously not lacking in ambition: future cabinet material, perhaps. Good bio for a Labour politician as well.

[Phony Moderate]

Lucy Allan (Conservative - Telford)

One of the worst results of the night from my POV. Particularly shocking as a fairly long-term incumbent MP in David Wright was standing.

Also, cheers Al.

[Blair]

Heidi Alexander (Labour - Lewisham East)

Right-wing fixer type with a local government background and elected for an area that (appropriately enough) was once represented by Herbert Morrison. Currently working for Sadiq Khan's Mayoral campaign.

Also endorsed Andy Burnham-that makes you right wing in 2010, and left in 2015

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Lucy Allan (Conservative - Telford)

The usual awful Midlands Tory MP presumably. Employers puppets the lot of them.

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The majority was tiny - it was a surprise hold in 2010 largely because the Tories chose an appalling candidate - and so also was the swing. And more and more private housing estates are springing up on the fringes of the constituency as I type this. But one of our most preventable losses and therefore one of the most frustrating. Though as far as I'm aware (and I could be wrong) Wright never had much of a personal vote; unlike his predecessor.

[Phony Moderate]

Graham Allen (Labour   - Nottingham North)

A former whip. Opposed the Iraq War. His election in 1987 was actually a Labour gain. Got a good result in May (consistent with many English big city seats).

[Phony Moderate]

Heidi Allen   (Conservative - South Cambridgeshire)

New MP, safe seat. Zzzz

[Pilchard]

Heidi Allen   (Conservative - South Cambridgeshire)

New MP, safe seat. Zzzz

Replaces former Health Secretary Andrew Lansley who stood down this year. Missed out on selection for the neighbouring South East Cambs seat, allegedly after a vote counting error in the open primary that was only noticed after a local activist took the ballots home.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/the-battle-of-the-tory-women-farcical-scenes-after-invalid-vote-to-select-candidate-for-safe-seat-9053694.html

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Graham Allen (Labour   - Nottingham North)

A former whip. Opposed the Iraq War. His election in 1987 was actually a Labour gain. Got a good result in May (consistent with many English big city seats).

Independent minded to the point of idiosyncrasy, which makes his spell as a whip seem quite surreal. A valuable member of the Commons even if probably no one agrees with him on everything.

Nottingham, btw, had had at least one Labour MP at all General Elections since 1918 except for 1931 and had elected a majority Labour delegation at all postwar elections but 1955 (tied) and 1959: the 1983 results in the city were as shocking at the time as they look now.

[Phony Moderate]

David Amess (Conservative - Southend West)

Perhaps more famous as the MP for Basildon (which, facing certain defeat, he fled from in 1997); his declaration famously came through early on election night in 1992 and his hold symbolised the Tory victory. Also campaigned against a fictional drug called 'cake' and occasionally rebels against his party on certain issues (hunting being an example).

[Phony Moderate]

David Anderson   (Labour - Blaydon)   

One of the MPs who signed the anti-austerity letter to Ed Miliband, so presumably on the left of the party.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Former miner who ended up as a care worker and Unison official before his election in 2005. Popular and effective Left MP who's campaigned on quite a few issues that don't get the attention they ought and a massive contrast (and not just physically!) with his rather low-key and procedure orientated predecessor.

[Phony Moderate]

Stuart Andrew (Conservative - Pudsey)

Another Tory who benefited electorally from being a one-termer.

[Phony Moderate]

Caroline Ansell (Conservative - Eastbourne)

One of the luckier Tory gains; the Lib Dems, despite losing, presumably benefited from having a one-term incumbent...a theme is developing here.

[Phony Moderate]

Edward Argar (Conservative - Charnwood)

That's a very Tory name isn't it?

His seat is one of those that is clearly safe but still gives Labour a respectable vote.

[politicus]

Edward Argar (Conservative - Charnwood)

That's a very Tory name isn't it?

His seat is one of those that is clearly safe but still gives Labour a respectable vote.

Yes, Edward John Comport Argar is the sort of name you would give a character in a novel if it should not be too over the top, but still unmistakably Tory, but then again he is educated from Harvey Grammar School and Oriel College. Also a very Tory background.

[Phony Moderate]

Richard Arkless (SNP - Dumfries and Galloway)

One of the more impressive SNP gains.

[Phony Moderate]

Jon Ashworth (Labour/Co-operative - Leicester South)

Won the seat in a by-election during the previous Parliament after the previous MP Sir Peter Soulsby ran (successfully) for Mayor.

[YL]

Richard Arkless (SNP - Dumfries and Galloway)

One of the more impressive SNP gains.

... though most of the constituency (the Galloway part) elected SNP MPs in October 1974 and 1997.

[Phony Moderate]

Victoria Atkins (Conservative - Louth and Horncastle)

I doubt she'll be there as long as her predecessor was. 

[Wake Me Up When The Hard Border Ends]

Victoria Atkins (Conservative - Louth and Horncastle)

I doubt she'll be there as long as her predecessor was. 

I agree with you, 44 years in Parliament (39 consecutive years) is a long tenure for any MP! Can't see Atkins going anywhere anytime soon though.

[Phony Moderate]

Victoria Atkins (Conservative - Louth and Horncastle)

I doubt she'll be there as long as her predecessor was. 

I agree with you, 44 years in Parliament (39 consecutive years) is a long tenure for any MP! Can't see Atkins going anywhere anytime soon though.

54 - 1959-1964 and 1966-2015.

[Wake Me Up When The Hard Border Ends]

Victoria Atkins (Conservative - Louth and Horncastle)

I doubt she'll be there as long as her predecessor was. 

I agree with you, 44 years in Parliament (39 consecutive years) is a long tenure for any MP! Can't see Atkins going anywhere anytime soon though.

54 - 1959-1964 and 1966-2015.

My bad Even more impressive of a tenure!

[Filuwaúrdjan]

1959-64 was for a different constituency: he narrowly gained Nottingham West in one of the biggest upsets of the election (Labour did terribly in Nottingham that year, I think partly due to a nasty row between the city council and the local police chief) and then inevitably lost it in 1964. There is actually an MP who served in the 1960s who's still in the Commons, but he's had interrupted service: David Winnick was elected for Croydon South (which is mostly in the current Croydon Central) in 1966, lost it in 1970, and was then out of the Commons until he regained Walsall North for Labour in 1979. Winnick was the defeated candidate in the 1976 by-election there, a by-election triggered by the resignation of John Stonehouse (who famously faked his own death in 1974 in order to escape from the consequences of his fraudulent business activities). Stonehouse was first elected for the Wednesbury constituency at a by-election in 1957: the defeated Conservative candidate was Peter Tapsell.