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John Robert Biggs is a British Labour and Co-operative Party politician who has been Mayor of Tower Hamlets since 2015.

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Leonie Alison Cooper is a British Labour & Co-operative Party politician. Since May 2016 she has represented Merton and Wandsworth on the London Assembly. She has served as a Councillor on the Wandsworth London Borough Council since 2006, representing Latchmere 2006-10 and Furzedown Ward from 2010 onwards.

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Tom Copley 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 2012 to 2020 and is a former councillor on Lewisham Council.

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Unmesh Desai is a British politician. A member of the Labour Party, he has represented City and East in the London Assembly since 2016. He served as Councillor on the London Borough of Newham from 1998 until 2016, representing East Ham Central from 2002 onwards.

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Jonathan Toby Harris, Baron Harris of Haringey is a Labour Party politician in the House of Lords.

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Dame Margaret Olivia Hillier, known as Meg Hillier, is a British Labour and Co-operative politician who was elected as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Hackney South and Shoreditch at the 2005 general election, was a junior government minister (2007–10) and was succeeded by Caroline Flint as Shadow Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change in the Labour Party October 2011 reshuffle.

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Dame Diana Ruth Johnson is a British Labour Party politician who has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Kingston upon Hull North since the 2005 general election.

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David Lindon Lammy is an English Labour Party politician serving as Member of Parliament (MP) for Tottenham since the 2000 Tottenham by-election, and has served as Shadow Secretary of State for Justice and Shadow Lord Chancellor in Keir Starmer's Shadow Cabinet since 2020.

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Mark Trevor Phillips is a British writer, broadcaster and former politician who served as Chair of the London Assembly from 2000 to 2001 and from 2002 to 2003. He has been the presenter of Trevor Phillips on Sunday, a Sunday morning talk show on Sky News, since May 2021.

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Onkar Sahota is a British Labour Party politician who has been the member of the London Assembly for Ealing and Hillingdon since 2012, when he became the first Labour candidate to be elected in Ealing and Hillingdon. He was re-elected in 2016 with an increased majority.

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Valerie Shawcross is a Labour and Co-operative politician and former Deputy Mayor of London for Transport. She was a member of the London Assembly for Lambeth and Southwark between May 2000 and May 2016, when she voluntarily stood down. At the 2010 general election, Shawcross was the Labour Co-operative candidate for Bermondsey and Old Southwark.

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Fiona Ruth Twycross is a Labour Party politician. She was born in South London before moving to Oxford. She studied at Cheney School in Oxford before going on to study Scandinavian Studies at the University of Edinburgh and has a PhD in contemporary Scandinavian literature. She subsequently studied Public Policy and Management at Birkbeck, University of London. She has lived and worked in the East Midlands, Yorkshire and the Humber and the North East.