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Supporters of
* Jonathan Bartley, theologian and former co-leader of the
* Norman Baker, former MP (Liberal Democrats)
* John Biggs, former Labour
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*Mike Jenkins (poet), Mike Jenkins
*Patrick Jones (poet), Patrick Jones, poet, playwright and filmmaker
*Liz Lochhead, Makar (National Poet for Scotland) and essayist
*Sean O'Brien (writer), Sean O'Brien, poet and critic
*Michael Rosen, novelist and poet
*Luke Wright (poet), Luke Wright
*Benjamin Zephaniah
*Louise Christian, human rights lawyer
*Imran Khan (lawyer), Imran Khan, lawyerList of supporters
, republic.org.uk; accessed 13 June 2019. *Michael Mansfield, QC *Geoffrey Robertson, QC *Clive Stafford Smith, lawyer and human rights campaigner
*Tony Banks, Baron Stratford, Tony Banks (1942–2006), MP and peer (Labour)
*Tony Benn (1925–2014), MP (Labour)
*Charles Bradlaugh (1833–1891), MP (Liberal Party (UK), Liberal)
*George Buchanan (politician), George Buchanan (1890–1955), MP (Labour)
*William Cluse (1875–1955), MP (Labour)
*Richard Crossman (1907–1974), MP (Labour) and editor of the ''New Statesman''
*Donald Dewar (1937–2000), Scottish Labour politician and First Minister of Scotland
*Sir Charles Dilke, 2nd Baronet, Sir Charles Dilke (1843–1911), MP (Liberal)Thomas M. Costa, "Dilke, Charles Wentworth" in ''Historical Dictionary of the British Empire'' edited by James S. Olson and Robert Shadle. Greenwood Press, 1996
*Jack Dormand (1919–2003), MP and peer (Labour)
*Raymond Fletcher (1921–1991), MP (Labour)
*Paul Flynn (politician), Paul Flynn (1935–2019), MP (Labour)
*Michael Foot (1913–2010), MP (Labour) and Leader of the Opposition (UK), Leader of the Opposition
*Willie Gallacher (politician), Willie Gallacher (1881–1965), MP (Communist Party of Great Britain)
*Arthur Greenwood (1880–1954), MP (Labour)
*Willie Hamilton (1917–2000), MP (Labour)
*George Hardie (politician), George Hardie (1873–1937), MP (Labour)
*Keir Hardie (1856–1915), MP and founder of the Labour Party
*Emrys Hughes (1894 –1969), MP (Labour) and journalistKingsley Martin, ''The Crown and the Establishment''. London, Hutchinson (p.137-39)
*William Keenan (1889–1955), MP (Labour)
*George Lansbury (1859–1940), MP (Labour) and Leader of the Opposition
*Margo MacDonald (1943–2014), MP and MSP (SNP)
*James Maxton (1885–1946), MP (Independent Labour Party)
*Valentine McEntee, 1st Baron McEntee, Valentine McEntee (1871–1953), MP (Labour)
*John McGovern (politician), John McGovern (1887–1968), MP (Labour)
*Kevin McNamara (politician), Kevin McNamara (1934–2017), MP (Labour)
*Michael Meacher (1939–2015), MP (Labour)
*John Stuart Mill (1806–1873), MP (Liberal), philosopher and political economist
*Peter Mond, 4th Baron Melchett (1948–2018), life peer (Labour) and campaigner
*Mo Mowlam (1949–2005), MP (Labour) and Secretary of State for Northern Ireland
*Stan Orme (1923–2005), MP (Labour)
*Gwilym Prys Prys-Davies, Baron Prys-Davies, Gwilym Prys-Davies (1923–2017), peer (Labour)
*Richard Rogers (1933–2021), peer (Labour) and architect
*Alfred Salter (1873–1945), MP (Labour), 1925–45
*Nancy Seear, Baroness Seear, Nancy Seear (1913–1997), peer and social scientist (Liberal, then Liberal Democrats)
*Algernon Sidney (1623–1683), English politician and political theorist
*Campbell Stephen (1884–1947), MP (Independent Labour Party)
*Ernest Thurtle (1884–1954), MP (Labour)
*Kay Ullrich (1943–2021), MSP (SNP)
*Benjamin Vaughan (1751–1835), political economist and MP
*Jeremy Bentham (1748–1832), philosopher, jurist and social reformer
*Julian Cayo-Evans (1937–1995), Welsh political activist and leader of the Free Wales Army
*Dennis Coslett (1939–2004), Welsh political activist (Free Wales Army) and author
*George William Foote (1850–1915), secularist and journal editor; secretary of the London Republican Club (1870) and National Republican League (1871)
*John Frost (republican), John Frost (1750–1842), English radical
*Stephen Maxwell (1942–2012), SNP activist
*Trefor Morgan (1914–1970), Welsh nationalist activist
*Thomas Muir of Huntershill (1765–1799), Scottish political reformer
*Mary Wollstonecraft (1759–1797), feminist writer and philosopher
*J. G. Ballard (1930–2009), novelist
*William Blake (1757–1827), writer and artist
*Carmen Callil (1938–2022), writer and publisher
*John Cole (journalist), John Cole (1927–2013), BBC political editor
*Thomas Davison (1794–1826), journalist and publisher
*A. A. Gill (1954–2016), journalist and critic
*Thomas Gordon (writer), Thomas Gordon (c. 1691–1750), Scottish writer and Commonwealthman
*Alasdair Gray (1934–2019), Scottish authorMcLaughlin, Aideen (27 March 2005). New call for abolition of monarchy timed to influence general election Alasdair Gray pamphlet to rally republican vote. ''Sunday Herald''.
*James Harrington (author), James Harrington (1611–1677), political theorist and author
*Christopher Hitchens (1949–2011), author and columnist
*Leonard Hobhouse (1864–1929), political theoristCollini, Stefan. ''Liberalism and Sociology: L. T. Hobhouse and Political Argument in England 1880-1914'' (1983). p. 54
*Mervyn Jones (writer), Mervyn Jones (1922–2010), writer
*Ethel Mannin (1900–1984), novelist and travel writerAndy Croft, "Ethel Mannin: The Red Rose of Love and the Red Flower of Liberty" in Angela Ingram and Daphne Patai, (ed.),''Rediscovering Forgotten Radicals : British Women Writers, 1889-1939''.Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, 1993. (p. 205-225).
*Kingsley Martin (1897–1969), editor of the ''New Statesman'', 1930–60
*John Milton (1608–1674), poet
*Edwin Morgan (poet), Edwin Morgan (1920–2010), Makar (National Poet for Scotland) and translator
*Jan Morris (1926–2020), historian and writer
*William Morris (1834–1896), writer and artist
*Deborah Orr (1962–2019), journalist
*Thomas Paine (1737–1809), English-American author and revolutionary
*Ronald Payne (1926–2013), journalist and war correspondent
*Edward Pearce (journalist), Edward Pearce (1939–2018), ''New Statesman'' contributor
*Claire Rayner (1931–2010), journalist
*George W. M. Reynolds (1814–1879), author and journalist
*Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822), English Romantic poetry, Romantic poet
*Sue Townsend (1946–2014), author (wrote the best-selling political satire ''The Queen and I (novel), The Queen and I'' in which Britain becomes a republic, The Queen and I (2018 film), later adapted as a TV drama on Sky One, and its sequel, ''Queen Camilla (novel)'')
*H. G. Wells (1866–1946), writer
*Peter Whelan (1931–2014), playwright
*Gwyn A. Williams (1925–1995), historian
Wedding fuels republican surge
''The Guardian''. *Andrew Ray (1939–2003), actor who played the Duke of York (George VI) in ''Edward and Mrs Simpson'' and the Duke of Windsor (Edward VIII) in ''Passion and Paradise''
republicanism in the United Kingdom
Republicanism in the United Kingdom is the political movement that seeks to replace the United Kingdom's monarchy with a republic. Supporters of the movement, called republicans, support alternative forms of governance to a monarchy, such as an e ...
—replacing the country's monarchy with a republic—typically favour an elected head of state
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to a constitutional monarch
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who heads the British royal family.
Individuals (living)
Politicians (serving)
* Jonathan Bartley, theologian and former co-leader of the Green Party of England and Wales
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*Natalie Bennett
Natalie Louise Bennett, Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle (born 10 February 1966) is a Australian-British politician and journalist who served as Leader of the Green Party of England and Wales from 2012 to 2016. Bennett was given a peerage in ...
, peer and former co-leader of the Green Party of England and Wales
*Richard Burgon
Richard Burgon (born 19 September 1980) is a British Labour Party politician who has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Leeds East since 2015. Burgon served as Shadow Secretary of State for Justice and Shadow Lord Chancellor in the Shado ...
, MP ( Labour)
* Katy Clark, MSP (Scottish Labour
Scottish Labour ( gd, Pàrtaidh Làbarach na h-Alba, sco, Scots Labour Pairty; officially the Scottish Labour Party) is a social democratic political party in Scotland. It is an autonomous section of the UK Labour Party. From their peak of ...
), peer and former MP (Labour)
*Tom Copley
Tom Phillip Copley (born 11 May 1985) is a British Labour Party and Co-operative Party politician, serving as the Deputy Mayor of London for Housing and Residential Development. He served as a London wide member of the London Assembly from 20 ...
, Deputy Mayor of London
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for Housing and Residential Development and former AM (Labour Co-op
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Candidat ...
)
*Jeremy Corbyn
Jeremy Bernard Corbyn (; born 26 May 1949) is a British politician who served as Leader of the Opposition and Leader of the Labour Party from 2015 to 2020. On the political left of the Labour Party, Corbyn describes himself as a socialis ...
, MP (former leader of the Labour Party)
*Mark Drakeford
Mark Drakeford (born 19 September 1954) is a Welsh politician serving as First Minister of Wales and Leader of Welsh Labour since 2018. He previously served in the Welsh Government as Cabinet Secretary for Finance from 2016 to 2018 and Minis ...
, MS (Welsh Labour
Welsh Labour ( cy, Llafur Cymru) is the branch of the United Kingdom Labour Party in Wales and the largest party in modern Welsh politics. Welsh Labour and its forebears won a plurality of the Welsh vote at every UK general election since 192 ...
), First Minister of Wales
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* George Foulkes, peer, former MP and MSP (Labour, Scottish Labour)
* Rob Gibson, MSP (Scottish National Party
The Scottish National Party (SNP; sco, Scots National Pairty, gd, Pàrtaidh Nàiseanta na h-Alba ) is a Scottish nationalist and social democratic political party in Scotland. The SNP supports and campaigns for Scottish independence from th ...
)
*Christine Grahame
Christine Grahame (formerly Creech; born 9 September 1944) is a Scottish politician who served as a Deputy Presiding Officer of the Scottish Parliament from 2016 to 2021. A member of the Scottish National Party (SNP), she has been a Member of ...
, MSP (SNP)
*Nia Griffith
Dame Nia Rhiannon Griffith (born 4 December 1956) is a Welsh politician who has served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Llanelli since 2005. A member of the Labour Party, she has been a Shadow Minister for International Trade since 2021. Grif ...
, MP (Labour)
* John Griffiths, MS (Welsh Labour
Welsh Labour ( cy, Llafur Cymru) is the branch of the United Kingdom Labour Party in Wales and the largest party in modern Welsh politics. Welsh Labour and its forebears won a plurality of the Welsh vote at every UK general election since 192 ...
)
*Llyr Gruffydd
Llŷr Huws Gruffydd, (born 25 September 1970) is a Welsh Plaid Cymru politician, serving as a Member of the Senedd (MS) for the North Wales region since 2011.
Background
Gruffydd attended Bro Myrddin Welsh Comprehensive School and Aberystwyth Un ...
, MS (Plaid Cymru
Plaid Cymru ( ; ; officially Plaid Cymru – the Party of Wales, often referred to simply as Plaid) is a centre-left to left-wing, Welsh nationalist political party in Wales, committed to Welsh independence from the United Kingdom.
Plaid wa ...
)
*Peter Hain
Peter Gerald Hain, Baron Hain (born 16 February 1950), is a British politician who served as Secretary of State for Northern Ireland from 2005 to 2007, Secretary of State for Work and Pensions from 2007 to 2008 and twice as Secretary of State ...
, peer and former MP (Labour)
*Patrick Harvie
Patrick Harvie (born 18 March 1973) is a Scottish politician who has served as Minister for Zero Carbon Buildings, Active Travel and Tenants' Rights since 2021. He has served as one of two co-leaders of the Scottish Greens since 2008, and is on ...
, MSP and co-leader of the Scottish Greens
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*Elin Jones
Elin Jones (born 1 September 1966) is a Welsh politician who has served as the Llywydd of the Senedd since 2016. A member of Plaid Cymru, Jones has been the Member of the Senedd (MS) for Ceredigion since 1999.
Background
Jones attended Llan ...
, MS (Plaid Cymru) and Llywydd (Presiding Officer) of Senedd Cymru
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* Clive Lewis, MP (Labour)
*Caroline Lucas
Caroline Patricia Lucas (born 9 December 1960) is a British politician who has twice led the Green Party of England and Wales and has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Brighton Pavilion since the 2010 general election. She was re-elect ...
, MP and former co-leader of the Green Party of England and Wales
*John McDonnell
John Martin McDonnell (born 8 September 1951) is a British politician who served as Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer from 2015 to 2020. A member of the Labour Party, he has been Member of Parliament (MP) for Hayes and Harlington since 1997. ...
, MP (Labour)
*Paul McLennan
Paul Stewart McLennan is a Scottish National Party (SNP) politician who has been the Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) for East Lothian since 2021.
He has served as a local councillor for the Dunbar and East Linton multi-member ward of Ea ...
, MSP (SNP)
*Lisa Nandy
Lisa Eva Nandy (born 9 August 1979) is a British politician serving as Shadow Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities since 2021. A member of the Labour Party (UK), Labour Party, she has been Member of Parliament (United Kin ...
, MP (Labour)
*John Prescott
John Leslie Prescott, Baron Prescott (born 31 May 1938) is a British politician who served as Deputy Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1997 to 2007 and as First Secretary of State from 2001 to 2007. A member of the Labour Party, he w ...
, peer, former MP (Labour) and Deputy Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
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* Tommy Sheppard, MP (SNP)
* Ken Skates, MS (Welsh Labour)
*Andy Slaughter
Andrew Francis Slaughter (born 29 September 1960) is a British Labour Party politician serving as Member of Parliament (MP) for Hammersmith, previously Ealing, Acton and Shepherd's Bush, since 2005. He had previously served as Leader of the L ...
, MP (Labour)
*Cat Smith
Catherine Jane Smith (born 16 June 1985) is a British politician who has served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Lancaster and Fleetwood since 2015. A member of the Labour Party, she was a member of the shadow cabinets of Jeremy Corbyn and K ...
, MP (Labour)
*Dick Taverne
Dick Taverne, Baron Taverne, (born 18 October 1928) is a British politician and life peer who served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Lincoln from 1962 to 1974. A member of the Liberal Democrats, he was a Labour MP until his deselection in ...
, peer ( Liberal Democrats) and former MP (Labour, Democratic Labour)
* Mercedes Villalba, MSP (Scottish Labour)
Politicians (former)
* Norman Baker, former MP (Liberal Democrats)
* John Biggs, former Labour mayor of Tower Hamlets
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* Russell Brown, former MP (Labour)
*Ronnie Campbell
Ronald Campbell (born 14 August 1943) is a former British Labour Party politician who was Member of Parliament (MP) for Blyth Valley from 1987 until 2019.
Early life
Campbell was born in Tynemouth, and grew up with seven siblings. He attende ...
, former MP (Labour)
*Michael Clapham
Michael Clapham (born 15 May 1943) is a British Labour Party politician, who was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Barnsley West and Penistone from 1992 to 2010.
Early life
Born in Darton, in Barnsley, Clapham was educated at the Darton Secon ...
, former MP (Labour)
* David Crausby, former MP (Labour)
*Roseanna Cunningham
Roseanna Cunningham (born 27 July 1951) is a retired Scottish National Party (SNP) politician who served as Cabinet Secretary for Environment, Climate Change and Land Reform from 2016 to 2021. She was previously Cabinet Secretary for Fair Work ...
, former MSP (SNP)
* Ian Davidson, former MP (Labour)
* Ron Davies, former MP (Labour), Independent
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councillor and political activist (Plaid Cymru)
*Emma Dent Coad
Emma Dent Coad (born Margaret Mary Dent, 2 November 1954) is a British politician who served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Kensington from 2017 to 2019. A member of the Labour Party, she has been a Member of Kensington and Chelsea London Bo ...
, former MP (Labour)
*Bill Etherington
William Etherington (born 17 July 1941) is a British Labour Party politician who was the Member of Parliament for Sunderland North from 1992 to 2010.
Early life
Bill Etherington was born in Sunderland, County Durham and was educated at the ...
, former MP (Labour)
* Linda Fabiani, former MSP (SNP)
*Roger Godsiff
Roger Duncan Godsiff (born 28 June 1946) is a British former politician who served as the Labour Member of Parliament (MP) from 1992 to 2019, for the seats of Birmingham Small Heath, Birmingham Sparkbrook and Small Heath, and Birmingham Hal ...
, former MP (Labour)
* David Hanson, former MP (Labour)
* Roy Hattersley, former MP (Labour) and peer
*Derek Hatton
Derek Anthony Hatton (born 17 January 1948) is a British former politician, later a broadcaster, property developer and businessman. He gained national prominence as deputy leader of Liverpool City Council in the 1980s and was a member of the Tr ...
, former deputy leader of Liverpool City Council
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The council is currently controlled by the Labour Party and is led by Mayor J ...
(Labour)
*John Heppell
John Heppell (born 3 November 1948) is a former British Labour Party politician who was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Nottingham East from 1992 until he stepped down at the 2010 general election. He was Vice-Chamberlain of the Household f ...
, former MP (Labour)
* Kelvin Hopkins, former MP (Labour)
*Julian Huppert
Julian Leon Huppert (born 21 July 1978) is a Liberal Democrat politician in the United Kingdom and former Member of Parliament for Cambridge from 2010 to 2015.
He succeeded David Howarth, who stood down after one term as an MP. At the 2015 gene ...
, former MP (Liberal Democrats)
*Brian Iddon
Brian Iddon (born 5 July 1940) is a British Labour Party politician, who was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Bolton South East from 1997 to 2010.
Early life
Born in Tarleton, Lancashire and attended the village's Church of England Primary ...
, former MP (Labour)
*Lynne Jones
Lynne Mary Jones (born 26 April 1951) is a British Labour Party politician, who was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Birmingham Selly Oak from 1992 until the dissolution of parliament in April 2010.
Early life
Jones was born in Birmingham ...
, former MP (Labour)
*Rosie Kane
Rosemary "Rosie" Kane (née McGarvey) (born on 5 June 1961 in Glasgow) is a Scottish Socialist Party politician. She was a Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) for the Glasgow Region from 2003 to 2007.
Political history
Introduction to poli ...
, former MSP (Scottish Socialist Party
The Scottish Socialist Party (SSP; gd, Pàrtaidh Sòisealach na h-Alba; sco, Scots Socialist Pairtie) is a left-wing political party campaigning for the establishment of an independent socialist Scotland.
The party was founded in 1998. It c ...
)
*Ken Livingstone
Kenneth Robert Livingstone (born 17 June 1945) is an English politician who served as the Leader of the Greater London Council (GLC) from 1981 until the council was abolished in 1986, and as Mayor of London from the creation of the office ...
, former mayor of London
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and Labour MP
*Andrew MacKinlay
Andrew Stuart MacKinlay (born 24 April 1949) is a British Liberal Democrat politician, who was the Labour Member of Parliament (MP) for Thurrock from 1992 until he stepped down at the 2010 general election.
In parliament MacKinlay built ...
, former MP (Labour) and councillor (Liberal Democrats)
*Denis MacShane
Denis MacShane (born Josef Denis Matyjaszek; 21 May 1948) is a British former politician, author and commentator who served as Minister of State for Europe from 2002 to 2005. He joined the Labour Party in 1970 and has held most party offices. ...
, author and former MP (Labour)
* Magid Magid, former MEP (Green Party of England and Wales) and Lord Mayor of Sheffield
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*David Marquand
David Ian Marquand (born 20 September 1934) is a British academic and former Labour Party Member of Parliament (MP).
Background and political career
Marquand was born in Cardiff; his father was Hilary Marquand, also an academic and former La ...
, academic, author and former MP (Labour)
*Bob Marshall-Andrews
Robert Graham Marshall-Andrews KC (born 10 April 1944) is a British barrister, author, and retired politician, who was the Labour Member of Parliament (MP) for Medway from 1997 to 2010. He defected from his former party at the 2017 general e ...
, barrister and former MP (Labour)
*John McAllion
John McAllion (born 13 February 1948) is a campaigner for the Scottish Socialist Party, as well as a former Labour Party Member of Parliament (MP), Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP), and convenor of Tayside Regional Council. He is also co ...
, former MP and MSP (Labour)
*Natalie McGarry
Natalie McGarry (born 7 September 1981) is a Scottish former politician who served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Glasgow East from 2015 to 2017. She was elected as a Scottish National Party (SNP) candidate in the 2015 general election bu ...
, former MP (SNP and Independent)
* Jim McGovern, former MP (Labour)
*Ann McKechin
Ann McKechin (born 22 April 1961) is a former British Labour Party politician and was Member of Parliament (MP) for Glasgow Maryhill from 2001 until 2005 and Glasgow North from 2005 to 2015. She was a junior minister under Gordon Brown before ...
, former MP (Labour)
* Chris Mullin, former MP (Labour)
*Doug Naysmith
John Douglas Naysmith (born 1 April 1941) is a British Labour Co-operative politician who was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Bristol North West from 1997 until standing down at the 2010 general election.
Early life
Doug Naysmith was born ...
, former MP (Labour)
* Stephen Pound, former MP (Labour)
*Gordon Prentice
Gordon Prentice (born 28 January 1951) is a British former politician of the Labour Party who was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Pendle in Lancashire from 1992 to 2010.
Early life
He was educated at the independent George Heriot's School i ...
, former MP (Labour)
*Murad Qureshi
Murad Qureshi ( bn, মুরাদ কোরেশী; born 27 May 1965) is a British Labour and Co-operative Party politician, and a former Member of the London Assembly.
Early life and education
Qureshi was born in Greater Manchester, but ...
, former AM (Labour)
*Ken Ritchie
Dr Kenneth George Hutchison Ritchie (born 8 December 1946) is a British psephologist and former Labour and Co-operative councillor. He was the chief executive of the Electoral Reform Society from 1997 until 26 June 2010, and a member of the bo ...
, former Labour councillor, psephologist and founder of Labour for a Republic
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*Phil Sawford
Philip Andrew Sawford (born 26 June 1950) is a British politician who served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Kettering from 1997 to 2005. A member of the Labour Party, he was Leader of Kettering Borough Council from 1991 to 1997.
Early lif ...
, former MP (Labour)
*Bethan Sayed
Bethan Sayed (née Jenkins, born 9 December 1981) is a Welsh politician. She represented the South Wales West Region for Plaid Cymru as a Member of the Senedd from 2007 to 2021.
Early life and education
Sayed was born in Aberdare, the daugh ...
, former MS (Plaid Cymru)
* Jim Sillars, former MP (Labour and SNP)
*Dennis Skinner
Dennis Edward Skinner (born 11 February 1932) is a British former politician who served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Bolsover for 49 years, from 1970 to 2019. He is a member of the Labour Party.
Known for his left-wing views and acerbic w ...
, former MP (Labour)
* Graham Watson, former MEP (Liberal Democrat)
*Sandra White
Sandra White (born 17 August 1951) is a retired Scottish National Party (SNP) politician. She was a Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) for the Glasgow electoral region from 1999 until 2011, and then the MSP for the Glasgow Kelvin constitue ...
, former MSP (SNP)
* Chris Williamson, former MP (Labour and Independent)
* Bill Wilson, former MSP (SNP) and political activist (Scottish Greens)
*Leanne Wood
Leanne Wood (born 13 December 1971) is a Welsh politician who served as the leader of Plaid Cymru from March 2012 to September 2018, and served as a Member of the Senedd (MS) from 2003 to 2021.
Born in the Rhondda, she was elected as to the ...
, former MS (former leader of Plaid Cymru)
Political activists
*Tariq Ali
Tariq Ali (; born 21 October 1943) is a Pakistani-British political activist, writer, journalist, historian, filmmaker, and public intellectual. He is a member of the editorial committee of the ''New Left Review'' and ''Sin Permiso'', and con ...
, author and political activist
*Jamie Bevan
Gareth Jamie Bevan is a Welsh language campaigner from Merthyr Tydfil, Wales and a prominent member of Cymdeithas yr Iaith Gymraeg. Bevan refused to pay fines and costs to Merthyr Tydfil Magistrate's Court for breaking into Conservative Party (UK) ...
, Welsh language activist
* Julie Bindel, writer and political activist
* Catherine Mayer, author and co-founder of the Women's Equality Party
* Alan McCombes, Scottish Socialist Party campaigner
*Gareth Miles
Gareth Miles is a Welsh-language author, translator, and a founder of . He is a Marxist and translated Hamlet into the Welsh language
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, Welsh language activist
*Craig Murray
Craig John Murray (born 17 October 1958) is a Scottish author, human rights campaigner, journalist, and former diplomat for the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office.
Between 2002 and 2004, he was the British ambassador to Uzbekistan during w ...
, former diplomat and activist
* Mike Small, Scottish author and activist
*Peter Tatchell
Peter Gary Tatchell (born 25 January 1952) is a British human rights campaigner, originally from Australia, best known for his work with LGBT social movements.
Tatchell was selected as the Labour Party's parliamentary candidate for Bermondsey ...
, gay rights
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campaigner
* Kevin Williamson, Scottish writer and activist
Political staff and advisors
*Alastair Campbell
Alastair John Campbell (born 25 May 1957) is a British journalist, author, strategist, broadcaster and activist known for his roles during Tony Blair's leadership of the Labour Party. Campbell worked as Blair's spokesman and campaign director ...
, political strategist, journalist and author
* Philip Collins, journalist and former chief speechwriter to Tony Blair
Sir Anthony Charles Lynton Blair (born 6 May 1953) is a British former politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1997 to 2007 and Leader of the Labour Party from 1994 to 2007. He previously served as Leader of t ...
*Andrew Fisher
Andrew Fisher (29 August 186222 October 1928) was an Australian politician who served three terms as prime minister of Australia – from 1908 to 1909, from 1910 to 1913, and from 1914 to 1915. He was the leader of the Australian Labor Party ...
, political adviser and consultant
* Lance Price, writer, journalist and former political adviser to Tony Blair
Sir Anthony Charles Lynton Blair (born 6 May 1953) is a British former politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1997 to 2007 and Leader of the Labour Party from 1994 to 2007. He previously served as Leader of t ...
Trade unionists
* John Edmonds, former General Secretary ofGMB Union
The GMB is a general trade union in the United Kingdom which has more than 460,000 members. Its members work in nearly all industrial sectors, in retail, security, schools, distribution, the utilities, social care, the National Health Service (N ...
* Mick Lynch, General Secretary of the National Union of Rail, Maritime and Transport Workers
The National Union of Rail, Maritime and Transport Workers (commonly known as the RMT) is a British trade union covering the transport sector. Its current President is Alex Gordon and its current General Secretary is Mick Lynch.
The RMT is on ...
(RMT)
*Arthur Scargill
Arthur Scargill (born 11 January 1938) is a British trade unionist who was President of the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) from 1982 to 2002. He is best known for leading the UK miners' strike (1984–85), a major event in the history of ...
, former trade union leader, leader of the Socialist Labour Party
Journalists and non-fiction writers
*Yasmin Alibhai-Brown
Yasmin Alibhai-Brown (''née'' Damji; born 10 December 1949) is a British journalist and author, who describes herself as "a leftie liberal, anti-racist, feminist, Muslim...person". A regular columnist for the ''i '' newspaper and the ''Eveni ...
, columnist for ''The Independent''
*Jackie Ashley
Jacqueline Ashley (born 10 September 1954) is an English journalist and broadcaster.
Early life
Ashley was born in St Pancras, London. She is the daughter of Pauline Kay () and Jack Ashley, Baron Ashley of Stoke, a Labour MP and life peer.
S ...
, journalist
*Julian Baggini
Julian Baggini (; born 1968) is a philosopher, journalist and the author of over 20 books about philosophy written for a general audience. He is co-founder of ''The Philosophers' Magazine'' and has written for numerous international newspapers ...
, philosopher and writer
* Piers Brendon, historian and writer
*Emma Brockes
Emma Brockes (born 1975) is a British author and a contributor to ''The Guardian'' and ''The New York Times''. She lives in New York.
Biography
The daughter of a South-African-born mother,Emma Brockes"My mother's secret past" extract from ''She ...
, author and journalist
*Heather Brooke
Heather Rose Brooke (born 1970) is a British-American journalist and freedom of information campaigner. Resident since the 1990s in the UK, she helped to expose the 2009 expenses scandal, which culminated in the resignation of House of Commo ...
, journalist, writer and FOI activist
*Julie Burchill
Julie Burchill (born 3 July 1959) is an English writer. Beginning as a staff writer at the ''New Musical Express'' at the age of 17, she has since contributed to newspapers such as ''The Daily Telegraph'', ''The Sunday Times'' and ''The Guardia ...
, writer and columnist
*Beatrix Campbell
Mary Lorimer Beatrix Campbell, OBE (''née'' Barnes; born 3 February 1947) is an English writer and activist who has written for a number of publications since the early 1970s. Her books include ''Wigan Pier Revisited'' (1984), ''Goliath: Brit ...
, journalist and author
*Nick Cohen
Nicholas Cohen (born 1961) is a British journalist, author and political commentator. He was a columnist for '' The Observer'' and a blogger for '' The Spectator''. Following accusations of sexual harassment, he left The Observer in 2022 and be ...
, columnist for ''The Observer
''The Observer'' is a British newspaper published on Sundays. It is a sister paper to ''The Guardian'' and '' The Guardian Weekly'', whose parent company Guardian Media Group Limited acquired it in 1993. First published in 1791, it is the ...
''
*Michael Collins Michael Collins or Mike Collins most commonly refers to:
* Michael Collins (Irish leader) (1890–1922), Irish revolutionary leader, soldier, and politician
* Michael Collins (astronaut) (1930–2021), American astronaut, member of Apollo 11 and ...
, writer and broadcaster
*Robert Crampton
Robert Crampton (born 10 August 1964) is an English journalist. He is also the son of Peter Crampton, former Member of the European Parliament for Humberside.
Early life
Crampton was born in Blackpool in 1964. His family lived in Solihull fo ...
, journalist (''The Times
''The Times'' is a British daily national newspaper based in London. It began in 1785 under the title ''The Daily Universal Register'', adopting its current name on 1 January 1788. ''The Times'' and its sister paper '' The Sunday Times'' ( ...
'')
*Bill Emmott
William John Emmott (born 6 August 1956) is an English journalist, author, and consultant best known as the editor-in-chief of ''The Economist'' newspaper from 1993 to 2006. Emmott has written fourteen books and worked on two documentary feature ...
, former editor of ''The Economist
''The Economist'' is a British weekly newspaper printed in demitab format and published digitally. It focuses on current affairs, international business, politics, technology, and culture. Based in London, the newspaper is owned by The Eco ...
''
*Otto English
Otto English is the pen name of writer and journalist Andrew Scott.
Scott had written for theatre and television before moving into political journalism. From 2010 he began writing about history and politics, often through his blog, The Pinpr ...
, author and journalist
*Jonathan Freedland
Jonathan Saul Freedland (born 25 February 1967) is a British journalist who writes a weekly column for ''The Guardian''. He presents BBC Radio 4's contemporary history series ''The Long View''. Freedland also writes thrillers, mainly under the ...
, journalist
*Roy Greenslade
Roy Greenslade (born 31 December 1946) is a British author and freelance journalist, and a former professor of journalism. He worked in the UK newspaper industry from the 1960s onwards. As a media commentator, he wrote a daily blog from 2006 to ...
, journalist and academic
*Johann Hari
Johann Eduard Hari (born 21 January 1979) is a British-Swiss writer and journalist who has written for ''The Independent'' and ''The Huffington Post''. In 2011, Hari was suspended from ''The Independent'' and later resigned, after admitting to ...
, writer and journalist
* Lester Holloway, journalist and former councillor (Labour)
*Mick Hume
Mick Hume (born 1959) is a British journalist and author whose writing focuses on issues of free speech and freedom of the press.
Hume was a columnist for ''The Times'' for ten years from 1999, and was described as "Britain's only libertarian Mar ...
, journalist
*Owen Jones
Owen Jones (born 8 August 1984) is a British newspaper columnist, political commentator, journalist, author, and left-wing activist. He writes a column for '' The Guardian'' and contributes to the '' New Statesman'' and '' Tribune.'' He has ...
, journalist
*Kitty Kelley
Katherine Kelley (born April 4, 1942) is an American journalist and author of best-selling unauthorized biographies of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Elizabeth Taylor, Frank Sinatra, Nancy Reagan, the British Royal Family, the Bush family, and O ...
, American journalist and author
*Simon Kelner
Simon Kelner (born 9 December 1957) is a British journalist and newspaper editor.
Kelner studied at Bury Grammar School. His older brother is the journalist and broadcaster Martin Kelner. He is Jewish. He started work at ''Neath Guardian'' in ...
, journalist and former editor of ''The Independent''
*A. L. Kennedy
Alison Louise Kennedy (born 22 October 1965) is a Scottish writer, academic and stand-up comedian. She writes novels, short stories and non-fiction, and is known for her dark tone and her blending of realism and fantasy. She contributes columns ...
, writer and academic
*Philippe Legrain
Philippe Legrain is a British political economist and writer. He specializes in global and European economic issues, notably globalisation, migration, the post-crisis world and the euro. A visiting senior fellow at the London School of Economi ...
, economist and writer
*Tim Lott
Tim Lott (born 23 January 1956) is a British author. He worked as a music journalist and ran a magazine publishing business, launching '' Flexipop'' magazine in 1980 with ex-''Record Mirror'' journalist Barry Cain.
Early life and education
In ...
, author
* Iain Macwhirter, political commentator
* Kevin Maguire, journalist
*Kenan Malik
Kenan Malik (born 26 January 1960) is an Indian-born British writer, lecturer and broadcaster, trained in neurobiology and the history of science. As an academic author, his focus is on the philosophy of biology, and contemporary theories of mu ...
, writer, lecturer and broadcaster
*Andrew MacGregor Marshall
Andrew MacGregor Marshall (born 25 March 1971) is a Scottish journalist and author, focusing mainly on human rights, conflict, politics and crime, mostly in Asia and the Middle East. A noted critic of the Thai monarchy and government, in June 2 ...
, journalist
* Allegra McEvedy, chef and food writer
*Chris McLaughlin
Chris is a short form of various names including Christopher, Christian, Christina, Christine, and Christos. Chris is also used as a name in its own right, however it is not as common.
People with the given name
*Chris Abani (born 1966), Nig ...
, journalist
* Suzanne Moore, journalist
*Tom Nairn
Tom Nairn (born 2 June 1932) is a Scottish political theorist and academic. He is an Honorary Research Fellow in the School of Government and International Affairs at Durham University. He is known as an essayist and a supporter of Scottish ...
, essayistGwyn A. Williams, Review of ''The Enchanted Glass'' by Tom Nairn. Marxism Today, July 1988. (p. 43)
* Brendan O'Neill, journalist
*Susie Orbach
Susie Orbach (born 6 November 1946) is a British psychotherapist, psychoanalyst, writer and social critic. Her first book, ''Fat is a Feminist Issue'', analysed the psychology of dieting and over-eating in women, and she has campaigned against m ...
, psychotherapist and writer
*Stephen Pollard
Stephen Pollard (born 18 December 1964) is a British author and journalist. From 2008 until December 2021, he was the editor of '' The Jewish Chronicle'' and remains a senior advisor and writer on the paper.
Early life
Pollard had what he call ...
, author and journalist
*Jay Rayner
Jason Matthew Rayner (born 14 September 1966) is an English journalist and food critic.
Early life
Jason Matthew Rayner was born on 14 September 1966. He is the younger son of Desmond Rayner and journalist Claire Rayner. His family is Jewish. ...
, food critic
* Brian Reade, ''Daily Mirror
The ''Daily Mirror'' is a British national daily Tabloid journalism, tabloid. Founded in 1903, it is owned by parent company Reach plc. From 1985 to 1987, and from 1997 to 2002, the title on its Masthead (British publishing), masthead was simpl ...
'' columnist
*Vicky Richardson
Vicky Richardson is a writer, curator and consultant specialising in architecture and design. In 2014 she was nominated for Debrett's 500, as one of the 20 most influential people in British architecture; in 2015 she was named a 'Woman of the Ye ...
, journalist
*Paul Routledge
Paul Routledge ( ; born 11 December 1943)Dennis Griffiths (ed.) ''The Encyclopedia of the British Press, 1422–1992'', London and Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1992, p.498–99 is an English journalist. Routledge currently writes for the ''Daily Mir ...
, ''Daily Mirror'' journalist
*Frances Ryan
Frances Ryan FRSL is a British journalist, author, and activist for people with disabilities. In 2021 the Shaw Trust named her one of the UK's ten most influential disabilities activists. Global Citizen called her "a prominent voice for people wi ...
, journalist and political activist
*Ash Sarkar
Ashna Sarkar (born 1992) is a British journalist and libertarian communist political activist. She is a senior editor at Novara Media and teaches at the Sandberg Institute in Amsterdam. Sarkar is a contributor to ''The Guardian'' and ''The Ind ...
, journalist and political activist
*Miranda Sawyer
Miranda Caroline Sawyer (born January 1967) is an English author, journalist and broadcaster.
Education and early life
Sawyer was born in Bristol and grew up in Wilmslow, Cheshire with her brother Toby, who is an actor. Sawyer was educated at ...
, journalist
*Mark Seddon
Mark may refer to:
Currency
* Bosnia and Herzegovina convertible mark, the currency of Bosnia and Herzegovina
* East German mark, the currency of the German Democratic Republic
* Estonian mark, the currency of Estonia between 1918 and 1927
* Finn ...
, journalist
*Will Self
William Woodard Self (born 26 September 1961) is an English author, journalist, political commentator and broadcaster. He has written 11 novels, five collections of shorter fiction, three novellas and nine collections of non-fiction writing. Sel ...
, journalist
*Joan Smith
Joan Alison Smith (born 27 August 1953) is an English journalist, novelist, and human rights activist, who is a former chair of the Writers in Prison committee in the English section of International PEN and was the Executive Director of Hack ...
, novelist, journalist and human rights activist
*Polly Toynbee
Mary Louisa "Polly" Toynbee (; born 27 December 1946) is a British journalist and writer. She has been a columnist for ''The Guardian'' newspaper since 1998.
She is a social democrat and was a candidate for the Social Democratic Party in the 1 ...
, columnist for ''The Guardian''
* Janice Turner, journalist and columnist for ''The Times''
* Francis Wheen, journalist, writer and broadcaster
*Andreas Whittam Smith
Sir Andreas Whittam Smith, (born 13 June 1937) is an English financial journalist, who was one of the founders of ''The Independent'' newspaper, which began publication in October 1986 with Whittam Smith as editor. He is a former president of th ...
, journalist (co-founder and first editor of ''The Independent'')
*Peter Wilby
Peter John Wilby (born 7 November 1944) is a British journalist. He is a former editor of '' The Independent on Sunday'' and the '' New Statesman''.
Early life and career
Wilby was educated at Kibworth Beauchamp grammar school in Leicestershire ...
, journalist
* Gary Younge, journalist
Novelists and fiction authors
*Martin Amis
Martin Louis Amis (born 25 August 1949) is a British novelist, essayist, memoirist, and screenwriter. He is best known for his novels ''Money'' (1984) and ''London Fields'' (1989). He received the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for his memoir ' ...
, novelist
* Philippa Gregory
Philippa Gregory (born 9 January 1954) is an English historical novelist who has been publishing since 1987. The best known of her works is '' The Other Boleyn Girl'' (2001), which in 2002 won the Romantic Novel of the Year Award from the Rom ...
, novelist
*Mark Haddon
Mark Haddon (born 28 October 1962) is an English novelist, best known for ''The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time'' (2003). He won the Whitbread Award, the Dolly Gray Children's Literature Award, Guardian Prize, and a Commonwealth Wr ...
, novelist
*James Kelman
James Kelman (born 9 June 1946) is a Scottish novelist, short story writer, playwright and essayist. His novel '' A Disaffection'' was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction in 1989. Kelman won ...
, novelist and playwright
* Kathy Lette, novelist
*John Niven
John Niven (born 1966) is a Scottish author and screenwriter. His books include '' Kill Your Friends'', ''The Amateurs'', and ''The Second Coming''.
Career
Born in Irvine, Ayrshire, Niven read English literature at the University of Glasgow, ...
, screenwriter and author
*Caryl Phillips
Caryl Phillips (born 13 March 1958) is a Kittitian-British novelist, playwright and essayist. Best known for his novels (for which he has won multiple awards), Phillips is often described as a Black Atlantic writer, since much of his fictional ...
, novelist
*Philip Pullman
Sir Philip Nicholas Outram Pullman (born 19 October 1946) is an English writer. His books include the fantasy trilogy '' His Dark Materials'' and '' The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ'', a fictionalised biography of Jesus. In 2008, ''T ...
, author
*Michèle Roberts
Michèle Brigitte Roberts FRSL (born 20 May 1949) is a British writer, novelist and poet. She is the daughter of a French Catholic teacher mother (Monique Caulle) and English Protestant father (Reginald Roberts), and has dual UK–France national ...
, novelist and poet
*Sara Sheridan
Sara Sheridan (born 7 June 1968) is a Scottish activist and writer who works in a variety of genres, though predominantly in historical fiction. She is the creator of the Mirabelle Bevan mysteries.
Biography
Born Sara Louise Goodwin, Sheridan ...
, author and historical novelist
* Zadie Smith, author
* Jonathan Trigell, author
Broadcasters
*Simon Fanshawe
Simon Hew Dalrymple Fanshawe OBE (born 26 December 1956, in Devizes, England) is a writer and broadcaster. He contributes frequently to British newspapers, television and radio. He is also now a consultant and non-executive director of public ...
, writer and broadcaster
*Mariella Frostrup
Mariella Frostrup (born 12 November 1962) is a British journalist and presenter, known in British television and radio mainly for arts programmes.
Early life
Frostrup was born in Oslo, Norway, to Peter and Joan Frostrup, but moved with her fam ...
, journalist and broadcaster
*Julia Hartley-Brewer
Julia Hartley-Brewer is an English radio presenter, political journalist and newspaper columnist. She hosts the weekday breakfast radio show on Talkradio.
Early life
Julia Hartley-Brewer's father, Michael John Hartley-Brewer, stood unsuccessfu ...
, radio presenter and political journalist
*Anthony Holden
Anthony Holden (born 22 May 1947) is an English writer, broadcaster and critic, particularly known as a biographer of artists including Shakespeare, Tchaikovsky, the essayist Leigh Hunt, the opera librettist Lorenzo Da Ponte and the actor Laure ...
, writer, broadcaster and critic
*Mark Kermode
Mark James Patrick Kermode (, ; ; born 2 July 1963) is an English film critic, musician, radio presenter, television presenter and podcaster. He is the chief film critic for ''The Observer'', contributes to the magazine ''Sight & Sound'', prese ...
, film critic, journalist
* Paul Mason, political commentator and author
*Fiona Phillips
Fiona Phillips (born 1 January 1961) is an English journalist, broadcaster and television presenter. She is best known for her presenting roles with the ITV Breakfast programme ''GMTV Today''.
Early life
Phillips was born in Canterbury Hospit ...
, journalist and broadcaster
*Amol Rajan
Amol Rajan (born 4 July 1983) is an Indian-born British journalist and broadcaster who has been the BBC's Media Editor since December 2016 and a presenter on the ''Today'' programme on BBC Radio 4 since 2021.
Rajan was editor of ''The Indepen ...
, journalist and broadcaster
* Matthew Wright, broadcaster and journalist
Business people
* Dawn Airey, media executive and sports administrator *Alan McGee
Alan John McGee (born 29 September 1960) is a Scottish businessman and music industry executive. He has been a record label owner, musician, manager, and music blogger for ''The Guardian''. He co-founded the independent Creation Records label, r ...
, co-founder of Creation Records
Creation Records Ltd. was a British independent record label founded in 1983 by Alan McGee, Dick Green, and Joe Foster. Its name came from the 1960s band The Creation, whom McGee greatly admired. The label ceased operations in 1999, although ...
and Poptones
Poptones was a record label launched by Alan McGee after the demise of Creation Records in 1999. Its roster included The Hives, January, Arnold, Cherrystones, King Biscuit Time, Thee Unstrung, The Boxer Rebellion, Beachbuggy, Pure Reason Rev ...
*Tim Waterstone
Sir Tim Waterstone (born 30 May 1939) is a British businessman and author. He is the founder of Waterstones, the United Kingdom-based bookselling retail chain, the largest in Europe.
Early life
Tim Waterstone was born on 30 May 1939 in Glasgow ...
, founder of Waterstones
Waterstones, formerly Waterstone's, is a British book retailer that operates 311 shops, mainly in the United Kingdom and also other nearby countries. As of February 2014, it employs around 3,500 staff in the UK and Europe. An average-sized Wa ...
bookshops and author
Actors
*Steve Coogan
Stephen John Coogan (; born 14 October 1965) is an English actor, comedian, producer and screenwriter. He is most known for creating original characters such as Alan Partridge, a socially inept and politically incorrect media personality, which ...
, actor and comedian
*Ben Dover
Simon James Honey (born 23 May 1956), better known as Ben Dover, is an English pornographic actor, director and producer. He has also worked under several other pseudonyms including Steve Perry as producer and Lindsay Honey as an actor and mus ...
, pornographic actor
*Christopher Eccleston
Christopher Eccleston (; born 16 February 1964) is an English actor. A two-time BAFTA Award nominee, he is best known for his television and film work, which includes his role as the ninth incarnation of the Doctor in the BBC sci-fi series '' ...
*Colin Firth
Colin Andrew Firth (born 10 September 1960) is an English actor and producer. He was identified in the mid-1980s with the " Brit Pack" of rising young British actors, undertaking a challenging series of roles, including leading roles in '' A M ...
*Mark Gatiss
Mark Gatiss (; born 17 October 1966) is an English actor, comedian, screenwriter, director, producer and novelist. His work includes writing for and acting in the television series ''Doctor Who'', '' Sherlock'', and '' Dracula''. Together with ...
, actor, comedian, screenwriter and novelist
*Glenda Jackson
Glenda May Jackson (born 9 May 1936) is an English actress and former Member of Parliament (MP). She has won the Academy Award for Best Actress twice: for her role as Gudrun Brangwen in the romantic drama ''Women in Love'' (1970); and again for ...
, actor and former MP (Labour)
*Margot Leicester
Margot Leicester (born September 1949) is a British actress. She has appeared in ''King Charles III'' (2017) as Camilla and was nominated for an Olivier Award for Best Actress in 1995 for ''Broken Glass''. She is also notable for television w ...
, actor
*Mark McGann
Mark Anthony McGann (born 12 July 1961) is an English actor.
Early life
He attended the De La Salle Grammar School, Liverpool. Mark's father Joe was a Royal Naval Commando who died in 1984, and his mother Clare was a teacher. His three bro ...
, actor, director, musician, writer
*Paul McGann
Paul John McGann (; born 14 November 1959) is an English actor. He came to prominence for portraying Percy Toplis in the television serial ''The Monocled Mutineer'' (1986), then starred in the dark comedy ''Withnail and I'' (1987), which was a ...
*Josh O'Connor
Josh O'Connor (born in 1989/1990) is a British actor. He portrayed a young Charles III (Prince Charles) in the Netflix drama ''The Crown'' (2019–2020), for which he won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Television Series Drama and th ...
*Daniel Radcliffe
Daniel Jacob Radcliffe (born 23 July 1989) is an English actor. He rose to fame at age twelve, when he began portraying Harry Potter in the film series of the same name; and has held various other film and theatre roles. Over his career, Rad ...
*Dougray Scott
Stephen Dougray Scott (born 25 November 1965) is a Scottish actor. He has appeared in the films ''Ever After'' (1998), '' Mission: Impossible 2'' (2000), ''Enigma'' (2001), ''Hitman'' (2007), and ''My Week with Marilyn'' (2011).
Early life
Sc ...
*Michael Sheen
Michael Christopher Sheen OBE (born 5 February 1969) is a Welsh actor, television producer and political activist. After training at London's Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA), he worked mainly in theatre throughout the 1990s with stage role ...
*Elaine C. Smith
Elaine Constance Smith (born 2 August 1958) is a Scottish actress, comedian, and political activist. She has starred in the BBC Scotland sitcoms '' City Lights'' (1984–91), ''Rab C. Nesbitt'' (1988–2014) and '' Two Doors Down'' (2016–), ...
*Samuel West
Samuel Alexander Joseph West (born 19 June 1966) is an English actor, narrator and theatre director. He has directed on stage and radio, and worked as an actor across theatre, film, television and radio. He often appears as reciter with orche ...
, actor and director
Comedians
*Frankie Boyle
Francis Martin Patrick Boyle (born 16 August 1972) is a Scottish comedian and writer. He is known for his cynical, surreal, graphic and often controversial sense of humour.
A stand-up comedian since 1995, Boyle first gained widespread recognit ...
, comedian and writer
*Jo Brand
Josephine Grace Brand (born 23 July 1957) is an English comedian, writer, presenter and actress. Starting her entertainment career with a move from psychiatric nursing to the alternative comedy stand-up scene and early performances on '' Saturd ...
*Russell Brand
Russell Edward Brand (born 4 June 1975) is an English comedian and actor known for his flamboyant, loquacious style and manner. Brand has received three British Comedy Awards: Best Newcomer (2006), Best Live Stand-Up (2008), and the award for ...
, comedian, actor, campaigner
*Robin Ince, comedian, actor and writer
*Eddie Izzard, comedian, actor and writer
*Lloyd Langford
*Rob Newman (comedian), Rob Newman
*John Oliver
*Mark Steel
*Mark Thomas, comedian, author and activist
*Tracey Ullman, actor and comedian
*Henning Wehn
Singers, musicians and composers
*James Dean Bradfield, lead vocalist and guitarist of the Manic Street Preachers *Captain Sensible, Ray Burns (Captain Sensible), musician *Barney Greenway, Mark 'Barney' Greenway, singer *Paul Heaton, singer (The Beautiful South) *Johnny Marr, musician, singer and songwriter (formerly of The Smiths) *Sean Moore (musician), Sean Moore, musician (Manic Street Preachers) *Morrissey, singer-songwriter and author (formerly of The Smiths) *Craig Reid (musician), Craig Reid, musician (The Proclaimers) *Charlie Reid (musician), Charlie Reid, musician (The Proclaimers) *Paul Simonon, musician (formerly of The Clash) *Robert Smith (musician), Robert Smith, musician (The Cure) *Nicky Wire, musician (Manic Street Preachers)Artists
*Steve Bell (cartoonist), Steve Bell, cartoonist *Peter Fluck, caricaturist and satirist *Mark McGowan (performance artist), Mark McGowan, performance artist known as Chunky Mark and The Artist Taxi Driver *Ralph Steadman, cartoonistTheatre and film directors
*John Boorman, film director *Danny Boyle, Academy Awards, Academy Award-winning film director *Richard Eyre, theatre and film director *Stephen Frears, film director and producer *Paul Greengrass, film director and screenwriter *Mike Leigh, writer and director of film and theatre *Ken Loach, film and television directorScreenwriters and playwrights
*Jon Canter, television comedy writer *Maureen Chadwick, screenwriter, dramatist and television producer *Michael Frayn, author and playwright *David Hare (playwright), David Hare, playwright *Julia Pascal, playwright and theatre directorPoets
*Mike Jenkins (poet), Mike Jenkins
*Patrick Jones (poet), Patrick Jones, poet, playwright and filmmaker
*Liz Lochhead, Makar (National Poet for Scotland) and essayist
*Sean O'Brien (writer), Sean O'Brien, poet and critic
*Michael Rosen, novelist and poet
*Luke Wright (poet), Luke Wright
*Benjamin Zephaniah
Sportspeople
*Joey Barton, football manager and former footballer *Stan Collymore, former footballer *Frankie Dettori, Italian jockey *Brian Moore (rugby union), Brian Moore, former rugby union playerLegal professionals
*Louise Christian, human rights lawyer
*Imran Khan (lawyer), Imran Khan, lawyerList of supporters, republic.org.uk; accessed 13 June 2019. *Michael Mansfield, QC *Geoffrey Robertson, QC *Clive Stafford Smith, lawyer and human rights campaigner
Academics
*Richard Dawkins, evolutionary biologist and writer *Gregor Gall, writer and academic *Ted Honderich, academic and philosopher *Laura McAllister, Professor of Public Policy and the Governance of Wales at the Wales Governance Centre, Cardiff University *Steven Rose, scientist and writer *Quentin Skinner, academic and historian *Adam Tomkins, academic and former MSP (Scottish Conservatives) *Nigel Warburton, academic and philosopherReligious figures
*Pete Broadbent, Bishop of WillesdenIndividuals (deceased)
Politicians
*Tony Banks, Baron Stratford, Tony Banks (1942–2006), MP and peer (Labour)
*Tony Benn (1925–2014), MP (Labour)
*Charles Bradlaugh (1833–1891), MP (Liberal Party (UK), Liberal)
*George Buchanan (politician), George Buchanan (1890–1955), MP (Labour)
*William Cluse (1875–1955), MP (Labour)
*Richard Crossman (1907–1974), MP (Labour) and editor of the ''New Statesman''
*Donald Dewar (1937–2000), Scottish Labour politician and First Minister of Scotland
*Sir Charles Dilke, 2nd Baronet, Sir Charles Dilke (1843–1911), MP (Liberal)Thomas M. Costa, "Dilke, Charles Wentworth" in ''Historical Dictionary of the British Empire'' edited by James S. Olson and Robert Shadle. Greenwood Press, 1996
*Jack Dormand (1919–2003), MP and peer (Labour)
*Raymond Fletcher (1921–1991), MP (Labour)
*Paul Flynn (politician), Paul Flynn (1935–2019), MP (Labour)
*Michael Foot (1913–2010), MP (Labour) and Leader of the Opposition (UK), Leader of the Opposition
*Willie Gallacher (politician), Willie Gallacher (1881–1965), MP (Communist Party of Great Britain)
*Arthur Greenwood (1880–1954), MP (Labour)
*Willie Hamilton (1917–2000), MP (Labour)
*George Hardie (politician), George Hardie (1873–1937), MP (Labour)
*Keir Hardie (1856–1915), MP and founder of the Labour Party
*Emrys Hughes (1894 –1969), MP (Labour) and journalistKingsley Martin, ''The Crown and the Establishment''. London, Hutchinson (p.137-39)
*William Keenan (1889–1955), MP (Labour)
*George Lansbury (1859–1940), MP (Labour) and Leader of the Opposition
*Margo MacDonald (1943–2014), MP and MSP (SNP)
*James Maxton (1885–1946), MP (Independent Labour Party)
*Valentine McEntee, 1st Baron McEntee, Valentine McEntee (1871–1953), MP (Labour)
*John McGovern (politician), John McGovern (1887–1968), MP (Labour)
*Kevin McNamara (politician), Kevin McNamara (1934–2017), MP (Labour)
*Michael Meacher (1939–2015), MP (Labour)
*John Stuart Mill (1806–1873), MP (Liberal), philosopher and political economist
*Peter Mond, 4th Baron Melchett (1948–2018), life peer (Labour) and campaigner
*Mo Mowlam (1949–2005), MP (Labour) and Secretary of State for Northern Ireland
*Stan Orme (1923–2005), MP (Labour)
*Gwilym Prys Prys-Davies, Baron Prys-Davies, Gwilym Prys-Davies (1923–2017), peer (Labour)
*Richard Rogers (1933–2021), peer (Labour) and architect
*Alfred Salter (1873–1945), MP (Labour), 1925–45
*Nancy Seear, Baroness Seear, Nancy Seear (1913–1997), peer and social scientist (Liberal, then Liberal Democrats)
*Algernon Sidney (1623–1683), English politician and political theorist
*Campbell Stephen (1884–1947), MP (Independent Labour Party)
*Ernest Thurtle (1884–1954), MP (Labour)
*Kay Ullrich (1943–2021), MSP (SNP)
*Benjamin Vaughan (1751–1835), political economist and MP
Political activists and social reformers
*Jeremy Bentham (1748–1832), philosopher, jurist and social reformer
*Julian Cayo-Evans (1937–1995), Welsh political activist and leader of the Free Wales Army
*Dennis Coslett (1939–2004), Welsh political activist (Free Wales Army) and author
*George William Foote (1850–1915), secularist and journal editor; secretary of the London Republican Club (1870) and National Republican League (1871)
*John Frost (republican), John Frost (1750–1842), English radical
*Stephen Maxwell (1942–2012), SNP activist
*Trefor Morgan (1914–1970), Welsh nationalist activist
*Thomas Muir of Huntershill (1765–1799), Scottish political reformer
*Mary Wollstonecraft (1759–1797), feminist writer and philosopher
Journalists, authors and writers
*J. G. Ballard (1930–2009), novelist
*William Blake (1757–1827), writer and artist
*Carmen Callil (1938–2022), writer and publisher
*John Cole (journalist), John Cole (1927–2013), BBC political editor
*Thomas Davison (1794–1826), journalist and publisher
*A. A. Gill (1954–2016), journalist and critic
*Thomas Gordon (writer), Thomas Gordon (c. 1691–1750), Scottish writer and Commonwealthman
*Alasdair Gray (1934–2019), Scottish authorMcLaughlin, Aideen (27 March 2005). New call for abolition of monarchy timed to influence general election Alasdair Gray pamphlet to rally republican vote. ''Sunday Herald''.
*James Harrington (author), James Harrington (1611–1677), political theorist and author
*Christopher Hitchens (1949–2011), author and columnist
*Leonard Hobhouse (1864–1929), political theoristCollini, Stefan. ''Liberalism and Sociology: L. T. Hobhouse and Political Argument in England 1880-1914'' (1983). p. 54
*Mervyn Jones (writer), Mervyn Jones (1922–2010), writer
*Ethel Mannin (1900–1984), novelist and travel writerAndy Croft, "Ethel Mannin: The Red Rose of Love and the Red Flower of Liberty" in Angela Ingram and Daphne Patai, (ed.),''Rediscovering Forgotten Radicals : British Women Writers, 1889-1939''.Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, 1993. (p. 205-225).
*Kingsley Martin (1897–1969), editor of the ''New Statesman'', 1930–60
*John Milton (1608–1674), poet
*Edwin Morgan (poet), Edwin Morgan (1920–2010), Makar (National Poet for Scotland) and translator
*Jan Morris (1926–2020), historian and writer
*William Morris (1834–1896), writer and artist
*Deborah Orr (1962–2019), journalist
*Thomas Paine (1737–1809), English-American author and revolutionary
*Ronald Payne (1926–2013), journalist and war correspondent
*Edward Pearce (journalist), Edward Pearce (1939–2018), ''New Statesman'' contributor
*Claire Rayner (1931–2010), journalist
*George W. M. Reynolds (1814–1879), author and journalist
*Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822), English Romantic poetry, Romantic poet
*Sue Townsend (1946–2014), author (wrote the best-selling political satire ''The Queen and I (novel), The Queen and I'' in which Britain becomes a republic, The Queen and I (2018 film), later adapted as a TV drama on Sky One, and its sequel, ''Queen Camilla (novel)'')
*H. G. Wells (1866–1946), writer
*Peter Whelan (1931–2014), playwright
*Gwyn A. Williams (1925–1995), historian
Singers, musicians and composers
*Robert Simpson (composer), Robert Simpson (1921–1997), composerActors
*Honor Blackman (1925–2020)Smith, David (3 April 2005)Wedding fuels republican surge
''The Guardian''. *Andrew Ray (1939–2003), actor who played the Duke of York (George VI) in ''Edward and Mrs Simpson'' and the Duke of Windsor (Edward VIII) in ''Passion and Paradise''
Artists
*Terence Conran (1931–2020), designer and restauranteur *William James Linton (1812–1897), wood-engraver and authorLegal professionals
*Anthony Scrivener (1935–2015), QC *Nathaniel Wade (c. 1666?–1718), English lawyerAcademics
*Patrick Collinson (1929–2011), historian *Bernard Crick (1929–2008), academic and political philosopher *Stephen Haseler (1942–2017), professor, authorMilitary personnel
*Robert Overton (c. 1609–1678), English soldier and scholar *John Lawson (naval officer), John Lawson (ca. 1615–1665), naval officerReligious figures
*Joseph Fawcett (c. 1758–1804), English Presbyterian minister and poet *Donald Soper (1903–1998), Methodist minister and peer (Labour)Media figures
*Max Clifford (1943–2017), publicist *Tony Garnett (1936–2020), television producerOther public figures
* Nicholas Culpeper (1616–1654), botanist, herbalist, physician and astrologerGroups
*Green Party of England and Wales
The Green Party of England and Wales (GPEW; cy, Plaid Werdd Cymru a Lloegr, kw, Party Gwer Pow an Sowson ha Kembra, often simply the Green Party or Greens) is a green, left-wing political party in England and Wales. Since October 2021, Carla ...
*Republic (political organisation), Republic
*Labour for a Republic
Republicanism in the United Kingdom is the political movement that seeks to replace the United Kingdom's monarchy with a republic. Supporters of the movement, called republicans, support alternative forms of governance to a monarchy, such as an e ...
*Our Republic (Scotland), Our Republic
*Scottish Greens
The Scottish Greens (also known as the Scottish Green Party; gd, Pàrtaidh Uaine na h-Alba ; sco, Scots Green Pairtie) are a green political party in Scotland. The party has seven MSPs in the Scottish Parliament as of May 2021. As of the ...
*Scottish Socialist Party
The Scottish Socialist Party (SSP; gd, Pàrtaidh Sòisealach na h-Alba; sco, Scots Socialist Pairtie) is a left-wing political party campaigning for the establishment of an independent socialist Scotland.
The party was founded in 1998. It c ...
*Scottish Republican Socialist Movement
Notes
References
{{Nationalism in the United Kingdom Republicanism in the United Kingdom, * British republicans, *