Stan Orme
Firmly aligned with the left faction of Labour, led intellectually and organisationally by Aneurin Bevan, at this time, he embraced many left-wing causes, including the Movement for Colonial Freedom and the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament.When Labour returned to office at the February 1974 general election, Orme was installed at Stormont as Minister of State for Northern Ireland.Orme joined the Shadow cabinet in 1979 as chief health and social security spokesman, before later moving on to hold the Industry and Energy portfolios until 1987.He retired from the House of Commons at the 1997 general election, and he was created a life peer as Baron Orme, of Salford in the County of Greater Manchester on 21 October 1997.In December 2019, a Daily Telegraph investigation reported that Orme had been involved in handing confidential information to Czech communist spies.