A barrister, David Lammy is the highest earner (on top of his MP’s salary) amongst all Labour Party MPs. Mr Lammy was a Corbynista, nominating extreme-left Jeremy Corbyn for his ill-fated spell leading the Labour Party.

In a Damascene shift he then supported Keir Starmer and was rewarded with a place in the Labour Shadow Cabinet.

For a barrister, it is perhaps surprising the number of times Mr Lammy makes mistakes with his words and at times barely seems to be master of his subject. To give just one example, in an interview with LBC on 24 January 2023 Mr Lammy raised eyebrows when he gave NATO's full name as being: "the North Atlantic Trade Alliance". It is of course the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation he was trying to refer to.

Finally, as with many others attending the secret two-day Rejoiner conference, he is an attender of the equally secretive Bilderberg meetings in Washington DC.

In government John Healey held several roles including Financial Secretary to the Treasury, before being transferred to Communities and Local Government, and before finally ending up down in Housing and Planning.

He now shadows Ben Wallace as head of Labour’s defence brief, having been appointed by Keir Starmer. He will almost certainly become Defence Secretary if Labour wins the next general election.

From his website: “I campaigned hard, alongside a great team of dedicated Labour volunteers to argue that I believed the UK would be safer and more secure with a stronger economic future as part of Europe. So I was dismayed when the national result came through on Friday morning.”

Only a week ago on 07 February 2023 he told the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI) in a major speech: “Labour will seek a defence and security pact with the EU”.

David Lidington was Minister of State for Europe under Cameron, then Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, Minister for the Cabinet Office, and Theresa May's de facto Deputy Prime Minister. He was a key figure in the group of MPs plotting to overthrow the result of the EU Referendum.

Two weeks ago he wrote in the anti-Brexit New European newspaper about “London accepting the legal status of the protocol and its requirement for a framework of checks and controls between Great Britain and Northern Ireland” and “increased practical security cooperation ought to lead to a more formal, structured security partnership between the UK and EU.”

Olly Robbins is possibly the ‘bête noire’ of a great many Brexiteers. Putting aside his many roles in the Civil Service over the years, (Robbins: “Led immigration service policy and operations with a team of 10,000 dedicated immigration policy staff and operational officers”), the one which will stand out to most people is his time from June 2016 after the Referendum, at the Department for Exiting the European Union.

He then moved to the Cabinet Office as the PM's closest Brexit confidant. Two years later Theresa May gave total control for EU negotiations to Remainer Robbins, provoking the resignations of the (pro-Brexit) Ministers who had thought they were responsible. Mrs May sneaked out the written announcement late on the last day before MPs went on holiday.

Angus Lapsley is not a name most readers will be familiar with but they should be, given that he has clear views about tying the UK into the EU’s defence structures and has worked hard to achieve this.

He spent over 30 years working in the FCO prior to moving to NATO in September last year. He served as Director General Strategy & International in the Ministry of Defence, as UK Ambassador to the European Union's Political and Security Committee, and worked in the private offices of two Prime Ministers.

Immediately after the vote to Leave on 23 June 2016, as UKREP PSC, Lapsley was advocating and advising ministers on British entry into new EU defence union plans to be launched that November.

Whilst at the MoD, in June 2021 Lapsley left 50 pages of Top Secret documents at a bus stop in Kent, which were then found by a member of the public and passed to the BBC. The documents contained the locations of British special forces and secret details of a Royal Navy warship's passage in the Black Sea. These documents should never have even left their secure location, and yet he took them on public transport.

Sir Tom Scholar is perhaps best known for having been fired by Liz Truss and Kwasi Kwarteng in September last year (2022) from his role as Permanent Secretary at HM Treasury. This is one of the most senior posts in the Civil Service.

Previously Scholar had served as the British representative to the anti-Brexit IMF (International Monetary Fund) and the World Bank, as well as many other positions, as he climbed the ranks of the Civil Service.

He may also be remembered as the Downing Street Chief of Staff and Principal Private Secretary to Gordon Brown, taking over from Olly Robbins. (See below.) When the guard changed after the 2010 elections, he led the ill-fated negotiations with the EU for David Cameron in 2015, but came back empty-handed. As Daniel Hannan - then an MEP - put it on Twitter : “Britain banged the table and aggressively demanded the status quo. The EU, after some mandatory faux-agonising, agreed.”