Dawn Primarolo

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Dawn Primarolo

Dawn Primarolo, Baroness Primarolo (* 2. May 1954 in London ) is a British politician of the Labor Party .

Life

After attending Thomas Bennett Community College, she studied social sciences at the University of the West of England (UWE) and the University of Bristol , graduating with a Bachelor of Arts (BA Social Science). Between 1985 and 1987 she served as a member of the County of Avon Council in local politics.

In the general election of June 11, 1987 , she was elected for the first time as a member of the House of Commons and has since represented the constituency of Bristol South . In 1989 there was an internal party scandal when then MP and party colleague John Reid made sexually suggestive remarks about her. During her parliamentary membership, she was first from 1992 to 1994 spokeswoman for the opposition for health and then until 1997 for the treasury.

After the Labor Party won the general election on May 2, 1997 , she became Financial Secretary in the Treasury in the government of Prime Minister Tony Blair and held that office until January 1999. She was then from January 1999 to June 2007 Paymaster General ( Paymaster General ) and had it the longest tenure in the history of this office.

In June 2007 she was appointed Secretary of State for Public Health in the Department of Health by Blair's successor, Gordon Brown , before serving as Secretary of State for Children, Young People and Families in the Department of Children from June 2009 to the end of Brown's tenure on May 11, 2010.

Since June 2010, Dawn Primarolo was the second deputy chairwoman of the Committee of Ways and Means of the House of Commons and also deputy spokeswoman for the House of Commons (Deputy Speaker ).

As part of the Birthday Honors 2014, she was inducted into the Order of the British Empire as Dame Commander .

In the 2015 election , Dawn Primarolo no longer ran. Her successor in the Bristol South constituency was Karin Smyth, who had also run for the Labor Party. Labor politician Natascha Engel followed her as Second Deputy Chairman of Ways and Means after the parliamentary elections . As part of the Dissolution Peerages 2015, Primarolo was nominated for a Life Peerage . On October 26, 2015, she was raised to a Life Peer with the title Baroness Primarolo, of Windmill Hill in the City of Bristol and has been a member of the House of Lords ever since .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ THE DAILY MAIL: The day leadership rival John Reid propositioned the young Brown ally Dawn Primarolo - and never drank again (13 May 2007)
  2. ↑ THE TELEGRAPH: Red Dawn Primarolo makes it to the Speaker's chair (June 8, 2010)
  3. ^ London Gazette  (Supplement). No. 60895, HMSO, London, June 14, 2014, p. B8 ( PDF , accessed June 24, 2015, English).
  4. ↑ The Bristol Post (May 8, 2015): Election 2015: Bristol South - Labor retains seat as Karin Smyth elected MP ( Memento of the original from June 12, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.bristolpost.co.uk
  5. ↑ UK Parliament (June 3, 2015): MPs-elect Deputy Speakers , accessed June 24, 2015.
  6. ↑ Dissolution Peerages 2015 , press release of the Prime Minister's Office, August 27, 2015, accessed on October 24, 2015.
  7. ^ The London Gazette, Issue 61395, October 29, 2015, page 21334 , accessed November 2, 2015.

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personal data
SURNAME Primarolo, Dawn
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Primarolo, Dawn, Baroness Primarolo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British politician (Labor Party)
DATE OF BIRTH May 2, 1954
PLACE OF BIRTH London