Andrew Adonis

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Andrew Adonis (2019)

Andrew Adonis, Baron Adonis (born February 22, 1963 in London ) is a British Labor Party politician .

biography

Adonis attended Keble College , Oxford, where he graduated in 1984 with an excellent Bachelor of Arts degree in Modern History.

The then Prime Minister Tony Blair had brought the son of a Greek immigrant and an Englishwoman to his staff in 1998 as an advisor. Previously, he was an academic at Oxford University and advanced to become an education expert. At the age of 42, Blair had him ennobled; as Lord Adonis, the political foster son belonged to the House of Lords. He officially joined the government and was first Minister of Transport (June 5, 2009 to May 11, 2010) and later, under Prime Minister Gordon Brown , Minister of Education.

Andrew Adonis (2009), Minister of Transport from June 5, 2009 to May 11, 2010

The Adonis family is of Greek Cypriot origin. Adonis became a life peer member of the British aristocracy in May 2005 . He is Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State in the Department for Children, Schools and Families .

Adonis is Chairman of the Institute for Public Policy Research . In 2015 he was awarded the European Railway Award .

With his political agenda, Adonis is demanding a second vote on Brexit . To this end, he launched the “Our Choice, Our Future” campaign.

Adonis was a participant in the Bilderberg Conference from May 30, 2019 to June 2, 2019 in Montreux , Switzerland.

Publications

  • Andrew Adonis (Editor) and Andrew Tyrie (Editor): Subsidiarity. No panacea . 1989
  • Andrew Adonis: Making Aristocracy Work. The Peerage and the Political System in Britain. 1993
  • David Butler, Andrew Adonis and Tony Travers: Failure in British government. The politics of the poll tax . 1994
  • Andrew Adonis and Stephen Pollard: A Class Act. Myth of Britain's Classless Society . 1997
  • Andrew Adonis (Editor) and Keith Thomas (Editor): Roy Jenkins. A retrospective . 2004

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Youth Brigade Against Brexit nzz.ch of February 3, 2018
  2. ↑ Participants in the Bilderberg Conference from May 30, 2019 to June 2, 2019 in Montreux . Retrieved April 20, 2020.
personal data
SURNAME Adonis, Andrew
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Adonis, Andrew, Adonis Baron
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British Labor Party politician
DATE OF BIRTH February 22, 1963
PLACE OF BIRTH London