Political Profiles

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

Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon was ranked as the 50th most powerful woman in the world by Forbes magazine. If she serves out her full term, Sturgeon will have been First Minister for a longer period than Margaret Thatcher was Prime Minister.Read More

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

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

Rishi Sunak has been Chancellor of the Exchequer since 2020. Sunak’s parents came to the UK from east Africa. His father was a GP and his mother ran her own local chemist shop.Read More

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

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

Alok Sharma, is the UK Cabinet Minister who will be President of the COP26 UN Climate Change Conference. He was born in India, but moved to Reading, where he is now the MP, at the age of five. Read More