Various newspapers, organisations and individuals endorsed parties or individual candidates for the 2015 general election
Endorsements for parties
Newspapers and magazines
National daily newspapers
National weekly newspapers
National monthly newspapers
National Sunday newspapers
News magazines
Political magazines
English newspapers
Northern Irish newspapers
Scottish newspapers
Individuals
Animal Welfare Party
Conservative Party
- Michael Bloomberg, American businessman and politician
- Sol Campbell, footballer
- Bob Dudley, American businessman
- Ron Dennis, businessman
- Charles Dunstone, businessman
- George Iacobescu, businessman
- Stuart Rose, businessman
- Tidjane Thiam, French-Ivorian businessman and former politician
- Paul S. Walsh, businessman
- Andrew Lloyd Webber, composer and Conservative member of the House of Lords
Green Party of England and Wales
Labour Party
- Duncan Bannatyne, businessman and author
- Trevor Beattie, advertising executive
- Jo Brand, comedian, writer, actress and former nurse
- Russell Brand (in England and Wales, except Brighton), comedian, activist
- Michelle Collins, actress
- Steve Coogan, actor and comedian
- Peter Duncan, actor
- Ben Elton, comedian
- Martin Freeman, actor
- Stephen Fry, comedian, writer, actor and presenter
- Stephen Hawking, professor, theoretical physicist, cosmologist, author
- Wayne Hemingway, fashion designer and businessman
- Mathew Horne, actor
- Jason Isaacs, actor
- Eddie Izzard, comedian, actor and writer
- Owen Jones, author, newspaper columnist and commentator
- Kathy Lette, author
- David Morrissey, actor, director, producer and screenwriter
- Susie Orbach, writer and social critic
- Paul O'Grady, broadcaster
- Ronnie O'Sullivan, professional snooker player
- Grayson Perry, artist
- Will Self, author, journalist, broadcaster
- Delia Smith, cook, author and television presenter
- Patrick Stewart, actor
- Harry Styles, singer of One Direction
- David Tennant, actor
- Polly Toynbee, journalist, author
- Dale Vince, entrepreneur
- Robert Webb, comedian
Liberal Democrats
Scottish National Party
Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition
UK Independence Party
Organisations
Conservative Party
Labour Party
Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition
UKIP
Parties
Some parties which only contest elections in certain parts of the United Kingdom have endorsed political parties in areas they don't contest
Endorsements for individual candidates
Danny Alexander, Liberal Democrat candidate for Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey
Ed Balls, Labour Party candidate for Morley and Outwood
Nick Clegg, Liberal Democrat candidate for Sheffield Hallam
Oliver Coppard, Labour Party candidate for Sheffield Hallam
Andrew Dismore, Labour Party candidate for Hendon
Lynne Featherstone, Liberal Democrat candidate for Hornsey and Wood Green
Mike Freer, Conservative Party candidate for Finchley and Golders Green
Andrew George, Liberal Democrat candidate for St Ives
Naomi Long, Alliance Party candidate for Belfast East
Caroline Lucas, Green candidate for Brighton Pavilion
- Julia Chanteray, President of the Brighton & Hove Chamber of Commerce
- Tom Burke, environmentalist, former Executive Director of Friends of the Earth
- Tony Juniper, activist, writer, environmentalist
- Charles Secrett, author, environmentalist broadcaster
- Russell Brand, comedian, activist
- David Attenborough, naturalist and broadcaster
- Joanna Lumley, actress and author
- Thom Yorke, musician and songwriter; member of Radiohead
- Brian May, musician, astrophysicist and animal welfare campaigner; member of Queen
- Billy Bragg, singer-songwriter
- Rory Bremner, impressionist and satirist
- Stephen Frears, film director
- Katharine Hamnett, fashion designer
- Jeremy Irons, actor
- Diana Quick, actress
- Bianca Jagger, human rights activist
- Kevin McCloud, Grand Designs presenter
- Alistair McGowan, actor and impressionist
- Cornelia Parker, sculptor and installation artist
- Tracy Worcester, former actress and animal welfare campaigner
- Mark Constantine, founder of Lush cosmetics
- Joseph Corré, co-founder, Agent Provocateur
- John Ashton, former special representative for climate change at the Foreign Office
- Prof. Tim Jackson, sustainable development, University of Surrey
- Jane Goodall, primatologist and UN messenger of peace
- Satish Kumar, former monk and peace activist
- Jeremy Leggett, green energy entrepreneur
- Jonathon Porritt, environmentalist and broadcaster
- Chris Rapley, former director of the Science Museum and the British Antarctic Survey
- Gordon Roddick, founder of 38 Degrees and co-founder, The Big Issue and The Body Shop
- Charles Secrett, former head of Friends of the Earth, England, Wales and Northern Ireland
- Dale Vince, Ecotricity founder
- Sir Tim Smit, co-founder of the Eden Project
- George Monbiot, journalist and author
- Michael Morpurgo, children's author, poet, playwright
- Mark Steel, writer and comedian
- Mark Thomas, comedian and journalist
- PinkNews
Maajid Nawaz, Liberal Democrat candidate for Hampstead and Kilburn
Derek Wall, Green candidate for Windsor
Tom Watson, Labour candidate for West Bromwich East
Hywel Williams, Plaid Cymru candidate for Arfon
See also
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