Michael Wills, Baron Wills

Michael Wills, Baron Wills

Michael David Wills, Baron Wills (born May 20, 1952 ) is a British Labor Party politician who was a member of the House of Commons between 1997 and 2010 and has been a member of the House of Lords since 2010 .

Life

Degree, career and member of the House of Commons

After visiting the Haberdashers 'Aske's Boys' School in Elstree Wills began studying history at Clare College of the University of Cambridge , which he in 1976 with a Bachelor ended of Arts (BA History).

He then joined the foreign service of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and worked there until 1980. He then worked as a research fellow at London Weekend Television , where he met Peter Mandelson before he was director of the production company Juniper Productions between 1984 and 1997 .

In the general election on May 1, 1997 , Wills was elected as a Labor Party candidate to the House of Commons and represented in this up to the general election on May 6, 2010 the constituency of Swindon North .

Junior minister

On January 4, 1999, Prime Minister Tony Blair appointed him Parliamentary Undersecretary of State in the Ministry of Commerce and Industry, where until July 28, 1999, he was “Junior Minister” responsible for small businesses, trade and industry. He was then from July 28, 1999 to June 11, 2001 Parliamentary Undersecretary of State in the Ministry of Education and Employment, before he was Parliamentary Undersecretary of State to the Lord Chancellor until May 29, 2002 . On June 2, 2002, Wills became Parliamentary Undersecretary of State in the Ministry of the Interior ( Home Office ) and was there responsible for information technology in the criminal justice system until July 11, 2003.

Blair's successor as Prime Minister, Gordon Brown , appointed Wills as Minister of State in the Justice Department on June 28, 2007 . He held this office until the Labor Party was defeated in the general election on May 6, 2010 .

House of Lords and other functions

After leaving the government and the House of Commons, he was raised to the nobility by a letters patent on July 10, 2010 as a Life Peer with the title Baron Wills , of North Swindon in the County of Wiltshire and Woodside Park in the London Borough of Barnet . On 12 July 2010 his Introduction (followed Introduction ) as a member of the House of Lords .

Lord Wills is currently active as a board member of the Institute for Studies in German and Romanticism at the University of London and as a member of the advisory board of Transparency International UK .

Web links

• Entry on Parliament's homepage
• Michael Wills at Hansard (English)
• Entry in They Work For You (accessed July 10, 2012)
• w.htm Cracroft's Peerage
• Entry ( BBC News , accessed July 10, 2012)