James O’Brien
James O’Brien is an award-winning writer and broadcaster whose journalism has appeared everywhere from the TLS to the Daily Mirror.
Katy Balls
Katy Balls is the Spectator‘s deputy political editor. She is a regular columnist for the i newspaper. She was shortlisted for Political Commentator of the Year at the 2017 Press Awards.
Steve Turner
Steve Turner is Assistant General Secretary at Unite the Union where he has responsibility for 400,000 members in manufacturing industries alongside the unions community and retired members strategies.
Samson Sohail
Samson Sohail has been working with Cobra Beer for the last 25 years. He has been instrumental in the success of Cobra's reputation as the best beer to complement food and as one of the most loved beer brands in the country.
David Galman
David Galman is the Sales Director at Galliard Homes the largest privately owned residential property developer in London.
Mazlum Demir
Mazlum Demir is the executive chef and owner of North London, fine dining restaurant Skewd. He has been the winner of the coveted Chef of the Year prize for the past 2 years.
Abena Oppong-Asare MP
Abena Oppong-Asare is the MP for Erith and Thamesmead, Shadow Exchequer Secretary to the Treasury and Chair of the Labour Women's Network.
Sophia Idjer
Working in the tech sector for restaurants and takeaways and hospitality for over 12 years, Sophia is exposed to the many different types of Kebab establishments in the UK.
Shany Gupta
Shany Gupta is founding director and C.E.O of Duncan Lewis Solicitors, whose ethos of “giving people a voice” has seen it grow from one office in Hackney to a nation-wide operation.
Dehenna Davison MP
Dehenna Davison is the Member of Parliament for Bishop Auckland, elected in 2019 as the first Conservative to represent the constituency since its creation in 1885.
Anthony Yilmaz
Anthony Yilmaz is a young entrepreneur and the owner and founder of North East based Turknaz Restaurant. He has been the winner of Best Regional Kebab Restaurant for the 4th consecutive year.
Nadhim Zahawi MP
Nadhim Zahawi is a Conservative Party politician who has been the Member of Parliament for Stratford-on-Avon since 2010.
Angus MacNeil MP
Angus MacNeil is the Scottish National Party Member of Parliament for Na h-Eileanan an Iar and has held the position since 2005. He is also the current chair of the International Trade Select Committee.
Mustafa Topkaya
Mustafa Topkaya has more than 40 years experience in the hospitality and catering sector, and is a pioneer of the kebab restaurant business having opened his first shop in 1984.
Altan Kemal
Altan Kemal is a Chartered Accountant. He came to the UK in 1973, graduating in Business Management before qualifying and working in accountancy. He subsequently founded his own firm of accountants in 1983.
Carolyn Harris MP
Carolyn Harris is the Labour Party Member of Parliament for Swansea East, first elected in May 2015. She is also the Deputy Leader of Welsh Labour.
Mike Theodorou
Mike Theodorou is one of the directors of Big K Charcoal Ltd. He has over 23 years experience supplying quality restaurant grade charcoal to the kebab industry nationwide.
David Warburton MP
David Warburton is the Conservative Party Member of Parliament for Somerton and Frome and has held this position since the 2015 General Election.
Lucy Horobin
Lucy Horobin is host of host of the Heart Dance drive time show and former presenter of the British Kebab Awards.
Barbara Speed
Barbara Speed is the opinion editor at the inews.
Darren Bown
Darren Bown is sales Director for Makro/Booker and a former judge of British Takeaway Awards. Darren has been in food wholesale for 30 years in a variety of roles.
Nigel Streeter
Nigel Streeter is Managing Director of Ace4Kebabs, leaders in the kebab Industry, with a real passion for meat. Ace4Kebabs has been manufacturing doner kebabs for the past 25 years.
Lloyd Russell-Moyle MP
Lloyd Russell-Moyle is the Labour Party Member for Parliament for Brighton Kemptown and is Shadow Foreign Office Minister for the Americas, Overseas Territories and East Asia.
Dr Rosena Allin-Khan
Dr Rosena Allin-Khan MP is the Labour MP for Tooting and is the Shadow Minister for Mental Health. Rosena has previously served on Labour's frontbench as Shadow Minister for Sport.
James Price
James Price is a director at Hanover Communications and a former Government Special Adviser. After a lockdown-induced mad idea, he was also elected as the first non-student President of the Oxford Union.
Matt Browne
Matt Browne is a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress in Washington DC, where he leads the organisation's work on populism, the transformation of progressive politics and the renewal of democracy.
Djemal Enver
Djemal Enver, who originated from a Turkish Cypriot background, has been in the UK kebab industry for over 30 years, along with his Greek Cypriot counterpart...
Resul Atalay
Resul Atalay is the owner of award-winning Atalay’s Kebab Van in Thame. He has been in the trade since 1988 and always endeavours to give back to the local community by providing honest food and excellent customer service. He is also a commentator on trade-related issues on many regional and national media outlets.
Alison Thewliss MP
Alison Thewliss has been the SNP Member of Parliament for Glasgow Central since the May 2015 general election. Before being elected to Westminster, Thewliss was a Glasgow City Councillor for the Calton ward, first elected in 2007.