Mark Serwotka

[7] In the 2000 election for General Secretary, he faced two rivals: Hugh Lanning of the Membership First faction and the incumbent Barry Reamsbottom of the National Moderate Group.

[11][12] In 2005, Serwotka was elected unopposed for another term as General Secretary as he was the only candidate with the required 25 branch nominations.

[5] Serwotka was elected President of the Trades Union Congress (TUC) for 2019, a prominent but largely honorary position.

This is our chance to build a social movement and form a government that can offer hope to the millions of people that deserve so much better than these contemptible Tories.

[23] In 2013 he was fitted with a battery-powered ventricular assist device after picking up a viral infection from the family dog.

[24] He was readmitted to hospital on 30 August 2016, when the ventricular assist device developed a clot and his doctors then placed him on the urgent transplant list.