Presidents of the Durham Union

Thomas Hedley Fairfax Harwood (born 26 August 1996) is a British journalist and political commentator. Harwood is a political correspondent for GB News. He previously worked for the right-wing political news website Guido Fawkes between 2018 and 2021, and as a columnist for The Daily Telegraph from 2019 to 2021.

Crispin Jeremy Rupert Blunt (born 15 July 1960) is a British Conservative Party politician. He has served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Reigate since 1997, and from May 2010 to September 2012 he was the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Prisons and Youth Justice within the Ministry of Justice.

Sydney Hall Evans CBE was the Dean of Salisbury in the Church of England from 1977 until his retirement in 1986.

Jock Wishart FRSGS is a maritime and polar adventurer, sportsman and explorer. Until his successful 2011 Old Pulteney Row to the Pole, he was best known for his circumnavigation of the globe in a powered vessel, setting a new world record in the Cable & Wireless Adventurer and for organising and leading the Polar Race.

Dame Caroline Jane Swift, Lady Openshaw DBE (born 30 May 1955), styled The Hon. Mrs Justice Swift, was leading counsel to the Inquiry in the Shipman Inquiry, which began in 2001.

General Francis Richard Dannatt, Baron Dannatt, GCB, CBE, MC, DL (born 23 December 1950) is a retired senior British Army officer and member of the House of Lords. He was Chief of the General Staff (head of the Army) from 2006 to 2009.

Thomas Frederick Peart, Baron Peart, PC (30 April 1914 – 26 August 1988) was a British Labour politician who served in the Labour governments of the 1960s and 1970s and was a candidate for Deputy Leader of the Party.

Sir Edward Julian Egerton Leigh (born 20 July 1950) is a British Conservative Party politician who has served as a Member of Parliament since 1983.

Kumar Sabapathy Iyer is a British economist and civil servant, who will serve as Chief Economist of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office from July 2019.

Helen Berry FRSA FRHistS (born 11 December 1969) is a British historian and Professor of British History at Newcastle University. She specialises in British history circa 1660 to 1800, with particular interests in social, cultural and economic history.