The National Executive Committee or NEC is the chief administrative body of the UK Labour Party

Labour Party (UK)

The Labour Party is a centre-left democratic socialist party in the United Kingdom. It surpassed the Liberal Party in general elections during the early 1920s, forming minority governments under Ramsay MacDonald in 1924 and 1929-1931. The party was in a wartime coalition from 1940 to 1945, after...

. Its composition has changed over the years, and includes representatives of affiliated trade unions, the Parliamentary Labour Party

Parliamentary Labour Party

In UK politics, the Parliamentary Labour Party is the parliamentary party of the Labour Party in Parliament: Labour MPs as a collective body....

 and European Parliamentary Labour Party

European Parliamentary Labour Party

The European Parliamentary Labour Party is an integral part of the Socialist Group in the European Parliament and of the British Labour Party. Labour's Euro Parliamentarians represent their voters so as to advance democracy, social justice, prosperity, peace and sustainable development in the UK,...

, Constituency Labour Parties, and socialist societies

Socialist societies

A socialist society is a membership organisation that is affiliated with the Labour Party in the UK.The best-known socialist society is the Fabian Society, founded in 1884, some years before the creation of the Labour Party itself . The Society's membership is relatively small , but in Labour...

, as well as ex officio members such as the Party Leader and Deputy Leader and several of their appointees.

During the 1980s, the NEC had a major role in policy-making and was often at the heart of disputes over party policy. In the Tony Blair

Tony Blair

Anthony Charles Lynton Blair is a former British Labour Party politician who served as the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 2 May 1997 to 27 June 2007. He was the Member of Parliament for Sedgefield from 1983 to 2007 and Leader of the Labour Party from 1994 to 2007...

 era, the committee's role declined and its membership was reformed, but it remains the administrative authority of the party. Its former policy development function is now largely carried out by the National Policy Forum

National Policy Forum

The National Policy Forum of the British Labour Party is part of the policy-making system of the Party, set up by Leader Tony Blair as part of the Partnership in Power process....

. One of its committees has disciplinary powers including the ability to expel members of the party who have brought it into disrepute or to readmit previously expelled members.

Membership

As of 2009 the NEC had 33 members elected from the following constituencies:

• 12: Affiliated Trade Unions
• 1: Socialist and co-operative societies
• 6: Constituency Labour Parties
• 2: Labour Councillors
• 3: Backbench MPs or MEPs elected by all Labour MPs and MEPs
• 2: Leader and deputy leader of the party
• 1: Treasurer
• 1: MEP leader of the European Parliamentary Labour Party
• 3: MPs nominated by the Cabinet or Shadow Cabinet
• 1: Young Labour
• 1: Black Socialist Society

The General Secretary

General Secretary of the Labour Party

The General Secretary is the most senior employee of the British Labour Party, and acts as the non-voting secretary to the National Executive Committee...

 acts as the non-voting secretary to the NEC.

Current members

(As of July 2011)

• Ed Miliband
  Ed Miliband
  Edward Samuel Miliband is a British Labour Party politician, currently the Leader of the Labour Party and Leader of the Opposition...
  
   (Leader)
• Harriet Harman
  Harriet Harman
  Harriet Ruth Harman QC is a British Labour Party politician, who is the Member of Parliament for Camberwell and Peckham, and was MP for the predecessorPeckham constituency from 1982 to 1997...
  
   MP (Deputy Leader)
• Diana Holland (Treasurer
  Treasurer of the Labour Party
  The Treasurer of the Labour Party is a position on the National Executive Committee of the British Labour Party.Although a post with little power, in the past, it was often hotly contested by people who later became big names in British politics: Arthur Greenwood beat Herbert Morrison in 1943, Hugh...
  
  )
• Angela Eagle
  Angela Eagle
  Angela Eagle is a British Labour Party politician, who has been the Member of Parliament for Wallasey since 1992. She served as the Minister of State for Pensions and Ageing Society from June 2009 until May 2010. Eagle was elected to the Shadow Cabinet in October 2010 and was appointed by Ed...
  
   MP (Frontbench)
• Peter Hain
  Peter Hain
  Peter Gerald Hain is a British Labour Party politician, who has been the Member of Parliament for the Welsh constituency of Neath since 1991, and has served in the Cabinets of both Tony Blair and Gordon Brown, firstly as Leader of the House of Commons under Blair and both Secretary of State for...
  
   MP (Frontbench)
• Tom Watson
  Tom Watson (politician)
  Thomas Anthony Watson is a British Labour Party politician, who has been the Member of Parliament for West Bromwich East since 2001. Watson was a Parliamentary Secretary for the Cabinet Office from 2008 to 2009...
  
   MP (Frontbench)
• Glenis Willmott
  Glenis Willmott
  Glenis Willmott is a British politician, currently leader of the European Parliamentary Labour Party and Labour member of the European Parliament for East Midlands....
  
   MEP (EPLP Leader)
• Callum Munro (Young Labour)
• Keith Birch (Div. I - Trade Unions)
• Jim Kennedy (Div. I - Trade Unions)
• Harriet Yeo
  Harriet Yeo
  Harriet Yeo is a British trade unionist and Labour Party politician. She is a member of the National Executive Committee of the Labour Party, and National Treasurer of TSSA. She served as a Labour councillor in Ashford, Kent.-References:...
  
   (Div. I - Trade Unions)
• Paddy Lillis (Div. I - Trade Unions)
• Norma Stephenson (Div. I - Trade Unions)
• Andy Kerr (Div. I - Trade Unions)
• Cath Speight (Div. I - Trade Unions)
• Mary Turner (Div. I - Trade Unions)
• Chris Weldon (Div. I - Trade Unions)
• Andy Worth (Div. I - Trade Unions)
• Rachel Maskell (Div. I - Trade Unions)
• Vacant (Div. I - Trade Unions)
• Simon Wright (Div. II - Socialist Societies)
• Keith Vaz
  Keith Vaz
  Nigel Keith Anthony Standish Vaz, known as Keith Vaz, was born 26 November 1956 in Aden, Yemen.Keith Vaz is a British Labour Party politician and a Member of Parliament for Leicester East, He is the longest serving Asian MP and has been the Chairman of the Home Affairs Select Committee since July...
  
   MP (Div. II - Socialist Societies: Black Socialist Society)
• Ken Livingstone
  Ken Livingstone
  Kenneth Robert "Ken" Livingstone is an English politician who is currently a member of the centrist to centre-left Labour Party...
  
   (Div. III - Constituency Labour Parties)
• Johanna Baxter (Div. III - Constituency Labour Parties)
• Ann Black
  Ann Black
  Ann Black is a member of the British Labour Party's National Executive Committee , Chair of the Labour Party from September 2009, and is part of the Grassroots Alliance group of NEC members....
  
   (Div. III - Constituency Labour Parties)
• Ellie Reeves (Div. III - Constituency Labour Parties)
• Christine Shawcroft (Div. III - Constituency Labour Parties)
• Luke Akehurst (Div. III - Constituency Labour Parties)
• David Sparks (Div. IV - Labour Councillors)
• Ann Lucas (Div. IV - Labour Councillors)
• Michael Cashman
  Michael Cashman
  Michael Maurice Cashman is a British former actor, now a Labour politician. He has been a Member of the European Parliament for the West Midlands constituency since 1999.- Acting :...
  
   MEP (Div. V - PLP/EPLP)
• Dennis Skinner
  Dennis Skinner
  Dennis Edward Skinner is a British Labour Party politician who has been the Member of Parliament for Bolsover since 1970, the Chairman of the Labour Party from 1988 to 1989, and has sat on the National Executive Committee numerous times since 1978.Born in Clay Cross, Derbyshire, Skinner is the...
  
   MP (Div. V - PLP/EPLP)
• Margaret Beckett
  Margaret Beckett
  Margaret Mary Beckett is a British Labour Party politician who has been the Member of Parliament for Derby South since 1983, rising to become the Deputy Leader of the Labour Party under John Smith, from 18 July 1992 to 12 May 1994, and briefly serving as Leader of the Party following Smith's death...
  
   MP (Div. V - PLP/ELP)

Source: Labour.org.uk

Chair of the Labour Party

The chair of the party is elected by the NEC from among its own members, and holds office for a calendar year, chairing both NEC meetings and national party conferences.

The name of this post has become confused since 2001 when Labour Party leader Tony Blair

Tony Blair

Anthony Charles Lynton Blair is a former British Labour Party politician who served as the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 2 May 1997 to 27 June 2007. He was the Member of Parliament for Sedgefield from 1983 to 2007 and Leader of the Labour Party from 1994 to 2007...

 appointed Charles Clarke

Charles Clarke

Charles Rodway Clarke is a British Labour Party politician, who was the Member of Parliament for Norwich South from 1997 until 2010, and served as Home Secretary from December 2004 until May 2006.-Early life:...

 to the courtesy position of "Party Chair" without the NEC or the national conference authorising such a position. The office's name remains "chair of the party" in the Labour Party Constitution, but elsewhere the party presents the position as "Chair of the NEC". Prior to 2001 the position was called "Chair of the Labour Party", and before that "Chairman of the Labour Party".

List of Chairs of the Party

(Information taken from 'British Political Facts 1900-1994', Butler & Butler 1994, PP144-5 for the period down to 1993).

Chairmen of the Annual Conference of the Labour Representation Committee

• William Charles Steadman
  William Charles Steadman
  William Charles Steadman, usually known as W. C. Steadman , was a prominent trade unionist and politician....
  
   MP 1900
• John Hodge 1901
• W Davies 1902
• J Bell 1903
• John Hodge 1904
• Arthur Henderson
  Arthur Henderson
  Arthur Henderson was a British iron moulder and Labour politician. He was the 1934 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate and he served three short terms as the Leader of the Labour Party from 1908–1910, 1914–1917 and 1931-1932....
  
   MP 1905

Chairmen of the Annual Conference of the Labour Party

Labour Party (UK)

The Labour Party is a centre-left democratic socialist party in the United Kingdom. It surpassed the Liberal Party in general elections during the early 1920s, forming minority governments under Ramsay MacDonald in 1924 and 1929-1931. The party was in a wartime coalition from 1940 to 1945, after...

• Arthur Henderson
  Arthur Henderson
  Arthur Henderson was a British iron moulder and Labour politician. He was the 1934 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate and he served three short terms as the Leader of the Labour Party from 1908–1910, 1914–1917 and 1931-1932....
  
   MP 1906
• J Stephenson 1907
• Walter Hudson
  Walter Hudson (politician)
  Walter Hudson was a Labour Party politician in England. He was Member of Parliament for Newcastle-upon-Tyne from 1906 to 1918.- References :...
  
   MP 1908
• John Robert Clynes
  John Robert Clynes
  John Robert Clynes was a British trade unionist and Labour Party politician. He was a Member of Parliament for 35 years, and led the party in its breakthrough at the 1922 general election...
  
   MP 1909
• Keir Hardie
  Keir Hardie
  James Keir Hardie, Sr. , was a Scottish socialist and labour leader, and was the first Independent Labour Member of Parliament elected to the Parliament of the United Kingdom...
  
   MP 1910
• William Cornforth Robinson
  William Cornforth Robinson
  William Cornforth Robinson was a British Labour Member of Parliament. Born in Carlton, West Riding of Yorkshire, he began work at the age of ten in a mill in Burnley. At the age of 17 he organised a trade union after experiencing a 20 week long strike...
  
   1911
• Ben Turner 1912
• George Henry Roberts
  George Henry Roberts
  George Henry Roberts PC was a Labour Party politician who switched parties twice.At the 1906 general election, he was elected as Member of Parliament for Norwich...
  
   MP 1913
• T Fox 1914
• *No conference held* 1915
• W Anderson 1916

1917: George Wardle

George Wardle

George James Wardle OCH was a British politician. He was editor of the Railway Review and in 1906 was elected a Labour Member of Parliament for Stockport...

 MP (acting)

1917-18: W. F. Purdy

1918-19: John McGurk

1919-20: William Harold Hutchinson

1920-21: Alexander Gordon Cameron

Alexander Gordon Cameron

Alexander Gordon Cameron was a British trades unionist and Labour Party politician.Cameron was born in Oban, Argyll, and served his apprenticeship as a joiner in Glasgow...

1921-22: Fred Jowett MP

1922-23: Sidney Webb MP

1923-24: Ramsay MacDonald

Ramsay MacDonald

James Ramsay MacDonald, PC, FRS was a British politician who was the first ever Labour Prime Minister, leading a minority government for two terms....

 MP

1924-25: Charles Cramp

1925-26: Robert Williams

1926-27: Frederick Roberts

Frederick Roberts (politician)

Frederick Owen Roberts PC was a Labour Party politician in the United Kingdom.He was elected at the 1918 general election as Member of Parliament for West Bromwich, defeating the sitting Conservative MP Viscount Lewisham...

 MP

1927-28: George Lansbury

George Lansbury

George Lansbury was a British politician, socialist, Christian pacifist and newspaper editor. He was a Member of Parliament from 1910 to 1912 and from 1922 to 1940, and leader of the Labour Party from 1932 to 1935....

 MP

1928-29: Herbert Morrison

Herbert Morrison

Herbert Stanley Morrison, Baron Morrison of Lambeth, CH, PC was a British Labour politician; he held a various number of senior positions in the Cabinet, including Home Secretary, Foreign Secretary and Deputy Prime Minister.-Early life:Morrison was the son of a police constable and was born in...

 MP

1929-30: Susan Lawrence

Susan Lawrence

Arabella Susan Lawrence was a British Labour Party politician, one of the first female Labour MPs.Lawrence was the youngest daughter of Nathaniel Lawrence, a wealthy solicitor, and Laura Bacon, daughter of Sir James Bacon, a bankruptcy judge and Vice-Chancellor. She was educated in London and at...

 MP

1930-31: Stanley Hirst

1931-32: George Lathan

George Lathan

George Lathan was a British trade unionist and politician. He was the Member of Parliament for Sheffield Park from 1929 to 1931 and from 1935 until his death....

 MP

1932-33: Joseph Compton

Joseph Compton

Joseph Compton was a British Labour Party politician.He was elected at the 1923 general election as Member of Parliament for Manchester Gorton...

1933-34: Walter R. Smith

1934-35: William Albert Robinson

1935-36: Jennie Adamson

1936-37: Hugh Dalton

Hugh Dalton

Edward Hugh John Neale Dalton, Baron Dalton PC was a British Labour Party politician who served as Chancellor of the Exchequer from 1945 to 1947, when he was implicated in a political scandal involving budget leaks....

 MP

1937-39: George Dallas

George Dallas (Labour politician)

George Dallas was a British Labour Party politician.Born in Glasgow, Dallas worked as a coal miner in his youth. He joined the Socialist League in about 1894 before moving to London to work for a coal merchant...

 (no conference in 1938)

1939-40: Barbara Gould

1940-41: James Walker

James Walker (UK politician)

James Walker, , was a Labour Party Member of Parliament in the United Kingdom, representing the Newport constituency in Monmouthshire from 1929 to 1931 and Motherwell from 1935 until his death in 1945, aged 61....

 MP

1941-42: Walter Henry Green MP

1942-43: Alfred Dobbs

Alfred Dobbs

Alfred James Dobbs was a British Labour Party politician and trade unionist. He is most notable for being the Member of Parliament who served the shortest term, since the Second World War — just one day....

1943-44: George Ridley MP

1944-45: Ellen Wilkinson

Ellen Wilkinson

Ellen Cicely Wilkinson was the Labour Member of Parliament for Middlesbrough and later for Jarrow on Tyneside. She was one of the first women in Britain to be elected as a Member of Parliament .- History :...

 MP

1945-46: Harold Laski

Harold Laski

Harold Joseph Laski was a British Marxist, political theorist, economist, author, and lecturer, who served as the chairman of the Labour Party during 1945-1946, and was a professor at the LSE from 1926 to 1950....

1946-47: Philip Noel-Baker MP

1947-48: Emmanuel Shinwell MP

1948-49: Jim Griffiths

Jim Griffiths

James "Jim" Griffiths CH , was a Welsh Labour politician, trade union leader and the first ever Secretary of State for Wales.-Background and education:...

 MP

1949-50: Sam Watson

Sam Watson (Miners' leader)

Sam Watson CBE was Agent of the Durham Miners' Association and member of the British Labour Party’s National Executive Committee.-Life:...

1950-51: Alice Bacon

Alice Bacon, Baroness Bacon

Alice Martha Bacon, Baroness Bacon, CBE was a British Labour Party politician. At the 1945 general election, she was elected as Member of Parliament for Leeds North East...

 MP

1951-52: Harry Earnshaw

1952-53: Arthur Greenwood

Arthur Greenwood

Arthur Greenwood CH was a prominent member of the Labour Party from the 1920s until the late 1940s. He rose to prominence within the party as secretary of its research department from 1920 and served as Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Health in the short-lived Labour government of 1924...

 MP

1953-54: Wilfrid Burke

Wilfrid Burke

Wilfrid Andrew Burke was a British Trade union organiser and politician who achieved high office in the Labour Party and served as Member of Parliament for Burnley for 24 years. He was briefly in the Attlee government as Assistant Postmaster-General...

 MP

1954-55: Edith Summerskill

Edith Summerskill

Edith Clara Summerskill, Baroness Summerskill CH PC was a British physician, feminist, misandrist, Labour politician and writer. She was appointed to the Privy Council in 1949.-Early life:...

 MP

1955-56: Edwin Gooch

Edwin Gooch

Edwin George Gooch was a British Labour Party politician and trade union leader.Gooch was appointed an Alderman for Norfolk County Council...

 MP

1956-57: Margaret Herbison

Margaret Herbison

Margaret McCrorie Herbison was a Scottish Labour politician.Educated at Bellshill Academy and the University of Glasgow, her early career was spent as a teacher of English and history and as an economics lecturer for the National Council of Labour Colleges. The daughter of a miner, she would later...

 MP

1957-58: Tom Driberg

1958-59: Barbara Castle

Barbara Castle

Barbara Anne Castle, Baroness Castle of Blackburn , PC, GCOT was a British Labour Party politician....

 MP

1959-60: George Brinham

1960-61: Richard Crossman

Richard Crossman

Richard Howard Stafford Crossman OBE was a British author and Labour Party politician who was a Cabinet Minister under Harold Wilson, and was the editor of the New Statesman. A prominent socialist intellectual, he became one of the Labour Party's leading Zionists and anti-communists...

 MP

1961-62: Harold Wilson

Harold Wilson

James Harold Wilson, Baron Wilson of Rievaulx, KG, OBE, FRS, FSS, PC was a British Labour Member of Parliament, Leader of the Labour Party. He was twice Prime Minister of the United Kingdom during the 1960s and 1970s, winning four general elections, including a minority government after the...

 MP

1962-63: Dai Davies

1963-64: Anthony Greenwood MP

1964-65: Ray Gunter

Ray Gunter

Raymond Jones Gunter , British Labour Party politician, was born in Wales and had a background in the railway industry and the British trade union movement – specifically his union, the Transport Salaried Staffs' Association .After seeing active service in the Second World War, enlisting in the...

 MP

1965-66: Walter Padley

Walter Padley

Walter Ernest Padley was a British Labour politician.Padley was educated at Chipping Norton Grammar School and Ruskin College, Oxford with a TUC scholarship...

 MP

1966-67: John McFarlane Boyd

1967-68: Jennie Lee MP

1968-69: Eirene White

Eirene White

Eirene Lloyd White, Baroness White, née Jones was a British Labour politician and journalist....

 MP

1969-70: Arthur Skeffington

Arthur Skeffington

Arthur Massey Skeffington was a British Labour Party politician who served as a Member of Parliament for 23 years between 1945 and 1971....

 MP

1970-71: Ian Mikardo

Ian Mikardo

Ian Mikardo , commonly known as Mik, was a British Labour and Co-operative politician. An ardent socialist and a Zionist, he remained a backbencher throughout his four decades in the House of Commons...

 MP

1971-72: Tony Benn

Tony Benn

Anthony Neil Wedgwood "Tony" Benn, PC is a British Labour Party politician and a former MP and Cabinet Minister.His successful campaign to renounce his hereditary peerage was instrumental in the creation of the Peerage Act 1963...

 MP

1972-73: Willie Simpson

1973-74: James Callaghan

James Callaghan

Leonard James Callaghan, Baron Callaghan of Cardiff, KG, PC , was a British Labour politician, who was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1976 to 1979 and Leader of the Labour Party from 1976 to 1980...

 MP

1974-75: Fred Mulley MP

1975-76: Tom Bradley

Tom Bradley (UK politician)

Thomas George Bradley was a British politician.Kettering-born, Bradley was educated at Kettering Central School and worked in the mines during World War II...

 MP

1976-77: John Chalmers

1977-78: Joan Lestor

Joan Lestor

Joan Lestor, Baroness Lestor of Eccles was a British Labour politician.Lestor was educated at Blaenavon Secondary School, Monmouth; William Morris High School, Walthamstow and the University of London. She became a nursery school teacher and a member of the Socialist Party of Great Britain, but...

 MP

1978-79: Frank Allaun

Frank Allaun

Frank Julian Allaun was a British Labour politician.Born in Manchester, Allaun was educated at Manchester Grammar School and worked as an engineer, shop assistant, tour leader, chartered accountant and journalist. He helped to organise the first Aldermaston March in 1958 and was chair of the...

 MP

1979-80: Lena Jeger

1980-81: Alex Kitson (1980–81)

• Judith Hart
  Judith Hart
  Judith Hart, Baroness Hart of South Lanark DBE PC was a British Labour Party politician...
  
   MP (1981–82)
• Sam McCluskie
  Sam McCluskie
  Sam McCluskie was a British Labour Party politician and trade unionist. He came from Leith in Edinburgh. He followed Albert Booth as Treasurer of the Labour Party from 1984 to 1992. He was general secretary of the National Union of Seamen from 1986 up to the merger which formed the RMT in 1990...
  
   (1982–83)
• Eric Heffer
  Eric Heffer
  Eric Samuel Heffer was a British socialist politician. He was Labour Member of Parliament for Liverpool Walton from 1964 until his death. His working-class background and consciousness fed in to his left-wing politics, but to an extent disguised the depth of his knowledge: with 12,000 books in...
  
   MP (1983–84)
• Alan Hadden (1984–85)
• Neville Hough (1985–86)
• Syd Tierney (1986–87)
• Neil Kinnock
  Neil Kinnock
  Neil Gordon Kinnock, Baron Kinnock is a Welsh politician belonging to the Labour Party. He served as a Member of Parliament from 1970 until 1995 and as Labour Leader and Leader of Her Majesty's Loyal Opposition from 1983 until 1992 - his leadership of the party during nearly nine years making him...
  
   MP (1987–88)
• Dennis Skinner
  Dennis Skinner
  Dennis Edward Skinner is a British Labour Party politician who has been the Member of Parliament for Bolsover since 1970, the Chairman of the Labour Party from 1988 to 1989, and has sat on the National Executive Committee numerous times since 1978.Born in Clay Cross, Derbyshire, Skinner is the...
  
   MP (1988–89)
• Jo Richardson
  Jo Richardson
  Josephine Richardson was a British Labour Party politician. At the time of her death she was Member of Parliament for Barking, a post she had held since 1974.-Early life:She was born in Newcastle upon Tyne...
  
   MP (1989–90)
• Tom Sawyer
  Tom Sawyer, Baron Sawyer
  Lawrence "Tom" Sawyer, Baron Sawyer is a British trade unionist and Labour Party politician. He was General Secretary of the Labour Party from 1994 to 1998....
  
   (1990–91)
• John Evans
  John Evans, Baron Evans of Parkside
  John Evans, Baron Evans of Parkside is a former Labour Party Member of Parliament in the United Kingdom.A former shipyard worker and trade unionist, he served as a member of Hebburn urban district council from 1962 until 1974 and South Tyneside council from 1973 to 1974.Evans was elected to...
  
   MP (1991–92)
• Tony Clarke
  Anthony Clarke, Baron Clarke of Hampstead
  Anthony James Clarke, Baron Clarke of Hampstead is an English trade unionist and Labour Party politician.A former telegraph boy and postman, in 1979 Clarke became a full-time official of the Union of Postal Workers, which in 1980 became the Union of Communication Workers .He edited the UPW journal...
  
   (1992–93)
• David Blunkett
  David Blunkett
  David Blunkett is a British Labour Party politician and the Member of Parliament for Sheffield Brightside and Hillsborough, having represented Sheffield Brightside from 1987 to 2010...
  
   MP (1993–94)
• Gordon Colling (1994–95)
• Diana Jeuda (1995–96)
• Robin Cook
  Robin Cook
  Robert Finlayson Cook was a British Labour Party politician, who was the Member of Parliament for Livingston from 1983 until his death, and notably served in the Cabinet as Foreign Secretary from 1997 to 2001....
  
   MP (1996–97)
• Richard Rosser (1997–98)
• Brenda Etchells (1998–99)
• Vernon Hince (1999-00)
• Maggie Jones
  Maggie Jones, Baroness Jones of Whitchurch
  Margaret Beryl Jones, Baroness Jones of Whitchurch is a British trade union official and Labour politician. She was Chair of the Labour Party from 2000 to 2001....
  
   (2000–01)
• Margaret Wall (2001–02)
• Diana Holland (2002–03)
• Mary Turner (2003–04)
• Ian McCartney
  Ian McCartney
  Sir Ian McCartney is a former politician, who was the British Labour Party Member of Parliament for the Makerfield constituency between 1987 to 2010, and served in the Cabinet, from 2003 to 2007, when Gordon Brown became Prime Minister...
  
   MP (2004–05)
• Jeremy Beecham
  Jeremy Beecham
  Jeremy Beecham, Baron Beecham, Kt, DL is a British Labour politician and a senior figure in English local government. He was leader of Newcastle City Council and the first Chairman of theLocal Government Association...
  
   (2005–06)
• Michael Griffiths (2006–07)
• Dianne Hayter (2007–08)
• Cath Speight (2008–09)
• Ann Black
  Ann Black
  Ann Black is a member of the British Labour Party's National Executive Committee , Chair of the Labour Party from September 2009, and is part of the Grassroots Alliance group of NEC members....
  
  (2009–10)
• Norma Stephenson (2010-11)

External links

• National Executive Committee (About Labour)