Estelle Morris

Estelle Morris (2003)

Estelle Morris, Baroness Morris of Yardley (born June 17, 1952 in Manchester ) is a British Labor Party politician who was temporarily Minister for Education and Skills.

Life

Origin and MPs

Estelle Morris came from a well-known family of Labor politicians in Manchester. Both her father Charles Morris and Uncle Alf Morris were members of the House of Commons for decades . After attending the Whalley Range Grammar School for Girls , she studied education at Coventry College of Education , where she obtained a Bachelor of Education (B.Ed.) in 1974 . Subsequently, she was a teacher for sports and history at Sidney Stringer School in Hill Fields .

Estelle Morris began in the late 1970s her political career in local politics and was from 1979 to 1991 member of the City Council of Warwick , where from 1982 to 1989 and chairman of the faction of the Labor Party.

In the general election of April 9, 1992 , she was elected as a Labor Party candidate for the first time as a member of the House of Commons and represented the constituency of Birmingham Yardley until May 5, 2005 . During her membership in parliament she was Whip from 1994 to 1995 and then until 1997 spokeswoman for education and employment for the opposition Labor group.

After the Labor Party's victory in the general election of May 1, 1997 , she first became Parliamentary Undersecretary of State in the Ministry of Education and Employment, where she was responsible for school standards, and then from July 1998 to June 2001 Minister of State in this ministry.

Minister and Member of the House of Lords

As part of a cabinet reshuffle, Prime Minister Tony Blair appointed her Secretary of State for Education and Skills on June 8, 2001, succeeding David Blunkett , who in turn became Minister of the Interior. She held the ministerial office until her replacement by Charles Clarke on October 25, 2002.

Between June 2003 and May 2005 she was Minister of State in the Ministry of Culture, Media and Sport, where she was responsible for the arts.

After leaving the Cabinet and the House of Commons, she was raised to the nobility on June 21, 2005 to the Life Peeress with the title Baroness Morris of Yardley , of Yardley in the County of West Midlands, and has been a member of the House of Lords ever since .

Baroness Morris is also active in a number of public organizations and institutions, including director of the Performing Rights Society , Chair of the Strategic Board of the Institute for Effective Education at the University of York, and a member of the council of Goldsmiths College at the University of London . She is also chairman and trustee of the National Coal Mining Museum for England in Wakefield and Trustee of The Roundhouse , the Hamlyn Foundation and the Hotcourses Foundation , a charity to support education of children and young people in Africa from HIV / AIDS ill are.

Web links

• Entry on the homepage of the British Parliament (accessed December 18, 2011)
• Estelle Morris at Hansard (English)
• Entry in They Work For You