From all areas of public and business life …

Guy Vaughan Black – former Director Press Complaints Commission, Executive Director Telegraph Media Group

Dame Margaret Eaton OBE – Chairman of Local Government Association

Edward Peter Lawless Faulks QC – barrister, leading practitioner, crime and personal injuries practice

John Gardiner – Deputy Chief Executive of Countryside Alliance

Helen Margaret Newlove – campaigner against anti-social behaviour

Dolar Amarshi Popat – businessman, Chief Executive of TLC Group, specialising in healthcare and hospitality

Shireen Olive Ritchie – Local Government Councillor, specialises in areas of adult and children's social care

Liberal Democrat Party

Floella Benjamin OBE DL – actor, presenter and campaigner for children's issues

Mike German OBE AM – former Deputy First Minister (Wales)

Meral Hussein Ece OBE – Local Government Councillor in Islington, advocate of equality issues

Labour Party

Sir Jeremy Hugh Beecham DL – senior figure in English local government and first Chairman of the Local Government Association

Rt Hon Paul Boateng – former Government Minister and MP for Brent South

Rita Margaret Donaghy CBE – former Chair Conciliation and Arbitration Service

Jeannie Drake – former Deputy General Secretary of the Communication Workers Union

Dr Dianne Hayter – Chair of Legal Services Consumer Panel

Anna Healy – former Government and political adviser, serving in numerous government departments

Roy Kennedy – Labour Party's Director of Finance and Compliance, long serving member of the Labour Party

Rt Hon Helen Lawrie Liddell – former Secretary State of Scotland

Roger John Liddle – former Special Adviser on Europe

Rt Hon Dr Jack Wilson McConnell – former First Minister of Scotland

John Stephen Monks – General Secretary, European Trades Union Confederation

Sue Nye – former Director of Government Relations, Prime Minister's Office