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
- Piers Morgan, journalist and television personality
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
- George Monbiot, writer and environmentalist
- Jack Monroe, writer and social activist
- Grace Petrie. activist and singer-songwriter
- Peter Tatchell, political campaigner and journalist
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
- John Cleese, actor and comedian
Scottish National Party
- Dennis Canavan, former Scottish Labour Party and independent politician
- Martin Compston, former footballer and actor
- Brian Cox, actor
- Ian McElhinney, actor
- Tommy Sheridan, former Scottish Socialist Party and Solidarity member of the Scottish Parliament for Glasgow. Co-leader of Solidarity
- Elaine C. Smith, actress and comedian
Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition
- Jawad Ahmad, singer, musician and activist
UK Independence Party
- Richard Desmond, publisher, adult industry businessman
- Nick Griffin, former leader of the British National Party, former MEP
- Tommy Robinson, former leader and founder of the English Defence League, founder of the European Defence League, former Vice-Chairman of British Freedom Party
- Paul Sykes, businessman, philanthropist
Organisations
Conservative Party
- Young Republicans International Committee, youth wing of US Republican Party
Labour Party
- Australian Labor Party, abroad
- Socialist Environment and Resources Association, environmental activist group
- Union of Construction, Allied Trades and Technicians, trade union
- UNISON, trade union
- USDAW, trade union
Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition
- National Union of Rail, Maritime and Transport Workers, trade union
UKIP
- Britain First, far-right 'street-defence' organisation
Parties
Some parties which only contest elections in certain parts of the United Kingdom have endorsed political parties in areas they don't contest
- The Labour Party (Great Britain) endorsed the Social Democratic and Labour Party in Northern Ireland.
- Plaid Cymru (Wales) endorsed the Green Party in England and the Scottish National Party in Scotland.
- The SNP (Scotland) endorsed the Green Party in England, and Plaid Cymru in Wales.
- The DUP and UUP (Northern Ireland) formed a unionist pact in four seats, with DUP candidates standing in Belfast East and Belfast North, and UUP candidates standing in Fermanagh and South Tyrone and Newry and Armagh.
- The 3 Green Parties in the United Kingdom, the Green Party of England and Wales, the Scottish Green Party and the Green Party in Northern Ireland, endorsed each other in their respective areas.
Endorsements for individual candidates
Danny Alexander, Liberal Democrat candidate for Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey
- Hugh Grant, actor
Ed Balls, Labour Party candidate for Morley and Outwood
- PinkNews
Nick Clegg, Liberal Democrat candidate for Sheffield Hallam
- The Times
Oliver Coppard, Labour Party candidate for Sheffield Hallam
- Owen Jones, Guardian journalist.
- Ronnie O'Sullivan, professional snooker player
Andrew Dismore, Labour Party candidate for Hendon
- PinkNews
Lynne Featherstone, Liberal Democrat candidate for Hornsey and Wood Green
- PinkNews
Mike Freer, Conservative Party candidate for Finchley and Golders Green
- PinkNews
Andrew George, Liberal Democrat candidate for St Ives
- Brian May, Guitarist of Queen
Naomi Long, Alliance Party candidate for Belfast East
- PinkNews
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
- David Aaronovitch, journalist
- Richard Dawkins, scientist and writer
Derek Wall, Green candidate for Windsor
- Democratic Union Party, Syrian Kurdish political party
Tom Watson, Labour candidate for West Bromwich East
- Hugh Grant, actor
Hywel Williams, Plaid Cymru candidate for Arfon
- Caroline Lucas, Green candidate for Brighton Pavilion
See also
- Newspaper endorsements in the United Kingdom general election, 2010
- United Kingdom general election, 2010 (Endorsements)
- Endorsements in the United Kingdom general election, 2017
- Endorsements in the 2019 United Kingdom general election
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