Roman Dansley (Napoleon's World)

Roman Ivan Dansley (born June 10, 1964) is an English politician who served as Leader of the Labour Party from 2005 until 2007, when he was toppled in an intra-party coup, and then served as Shadow Secretary of Finance under leader Jack Davenport from the fall of 2010 until May 2011, when Labour won power after six years and he was made Secretary of Finance and the Treasury. With a narrow majority, Labour was unable to implement many of Dansley's more ambitious budget proposals, and his public criticisms of Prime Minister Davenport was seen as helping contribute to their defeat in 2014 after only one three year term of Parliament. In 2016, the now-backbench Dansley resigned his seat to accept an appointment to the board of the Bank of Wales.

Dansley's father was a Bulgar refugee; however, his father, Ivan Dimitov, divorced his mother when he was only four years old and moved to Ireland, so he took his mother's maiden name afterwards. Dansley has been a critic of the Turkish government's treatment of its Bulgar minorities and frequently campaigned for Labour in London's Little Sofya neighborhood.