Political Profiles
Alex Salmond
Having left the SNP, the former party leader and Scottish First Minister, set up the Alba Party. However he failed to secure more than 2% of the vote in the 2021 Scottish elections.Read More
Allegra Stratton
Stratton was the former political editor of Newsnight before later becoming the Downing Street Press Secretary. The anticipated televised briefings were later shelved, and Stratton was moved to a post with the COP26 summit.Read More
Johnson, Carrie
The Prime Minister's wife, Carrie Johnson, is the daughter of a founder of the Independent Newspaper, and the granddaughter of a Labour MEP. Once the Conservative Party's Director of Communications in her own right, she campaigns against animal cruelty.Read More
Lady Victoria Starmer
A profile of Lady Victoria Starmer, the wife of the current labour leader, and former solicitor who once remarked 'Who the ***, does he think he is".Read More
Nicola Sturgeon
One time Scottish First Minister and SNP Leader, Nicola Sturgeon was ranked as the 50th most powerful woman in the world by Forbes magazine. Read More
Sharma, Sir Alok
Profile of Sir Alok Sharma, former COP26 president, Conservative MP and critic of Rishi Sunak's net zero reformsRead More
Starmer, Keir Sir
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
Sunak, Rishi
Rishi Sunak served as Chancellor of the Exchequer between 2020 and 2022. Runner up in the 2022 Conservative leadership election. Sunak’s parents came to the UK from east Africa. His father was a GP and his mother ran her own local chemist shop. He was once voted Britain's sexiest MP.Read More
Swinson, Jo
Jo Swinson was the Liberal Democrat leader for six months going into the 2019 General Election. No longer an MP, she then became a visiting Professor at Cranfield University. A keen runner, Swinson suffers from a severe peanut allergy.Read More