Margaret Jay, Baroness Jay of Paddington

Margaret Jay, Baroness Jay of Paddington

Margaret Jay, Baroness Jay of Paddington PC (née Callaghan ; born November 18, 1939 ) is a British journalist and Labor Party politician who was , among other things, Lord Keeper of the Seal .

Life

Margaret Callaghan, daughter of the late Prime Minister James Callaghan , studied after visiting the Blackheath High School at Somerville College of the University of Oxford , and in 1965 a journalist at the BBC , where she for news broadcasts as Newsnight worked. In 1987 she was the founding director of the National AIDS Trust .

On July 29, 1992 she was raised to the nobility as a Life Peeress with the title Baroness Jay of Paddington , of Paddington in the City of Westminster and has been a member of the House of Lords ever since . Immediately thereafter, she became spokeswoman for health policy and whip for the opposition Labor faction and held this position until 1997. At the same time, she was a member of the health authorities for the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea and the City of Westminster between 1993 and 1997 .

After the Labor Party's victory in the general election of May 1, 1997 , she became Minister of State in the Ministry of Health and Deputy Leader of the House of Lords . After a government reshuffle, Prime Minister Tony Blair appointed her Lord Seal Keeper, President of the Privy Council , Minister for Women and she became Leader of the House of Lords in July 1998 . She held these offices until June 2001 and was then replaced by Gareth Wyn Williams as Keeper of the Lord Seal.

After leaving the cabinet, she became chairwoman of the Overseas Development Institute (ODI) in 2002 and was also a member of the Labor Party's donation committee from 2002 to 2005 and president of the One Thousand Club from 2002 to 2006 . She was also a temporary member of the Central Research and Development Committee of the National Health Service (NHS) and, since 2002, has also been a member of the International Advisory Board of Independent News & Media , a Dublin- based media company .

In 1961 she married the journalist Peter Jay , a son of Douglas Jay, Baron Jay , who was, among other things, a member of the House of Commons , Secretary of Commerce and Finance of the Treasury and President of the Board of Trade . When her father James Callaghan, in his capacity as Prime Minister, appointed her husband as ambassador to the United States in 1977 , there was public controversy and charges of nepotism .

Web links

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