Paul Boateng, Baron Boateng

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Paul Boateng, Baron Boateng (2010)

Paul Boateng, Baron Boateng PC (born June 14, 1951 in Hackney , London , England ) is a British lawyer , diplomat and politician of the Labor Party who became Great Britain's first black cabinet minister in 2002 as Chief Secretary to the Treasury .

Life

Origin and choice in the House of Commons

Paul Boateng, the son of a Scottish woman and politician Kwaku Boateng , who in the 1960 information, interior and education ministers of Ghana in the governments of Kwame Nkrumah , was studied after school law at the University of Bristol and was after graduation as a Barrister and Legal advisor.

At the end of the 1970s, he began his political career in the Labor Party and was initially a member of the subcommittee for human rights in the party's National Executive Committee from 1979 to 1983, from 1981 to 1986 a member of the Greater London Council , where he was also chairman of the police committee and deputy Chaired the Committee on Ethnic Minorities . He was also a member of the Labor Party Committee on Crime and Police from 1984 to 1986.

After he had run unsuccessfully for the Labor Party for a seat in the House of Commons in the general election on June 7, 1983 in the constituency of Hertfordshire West , he was elected as a member of the House of Commons in the general election of June 11, 1987 represented there until 2005 the constituency of Brent South . During his long membership in parliament, between 1989 and 1992 he was spokesman for the opposition Labor faction for the treasury and economic affairs, and then until 1997 opposition spokesman for the office of Lord Chancellor .

After the Labor Party won the general election on May 1, 1997 , he became Parliamentary Undersecretary of State in the Ministry of Health and then, in October 1999, Minister of State in the Home Office , the British Home Office . In this he was first responsible for crime policy and then from 1999 to 2001 Deputy Minister of the Interior, where he was also responsible for young people from 2000 to 2001. In June 2001 he moved to the Treasury, where he first became Financial Secretary to the Treasury . At the same time he was a member of the House Committee on Public Budgets.

Cabinet Minister, High Commissioner and Member of the House of Lords

On 29 May 2002 appointed him Prime Minister Tony Blair to the Chief Secretary of the Treasury ( Chief Secretary to the Treasury ) and first convened so that a black man to a post with the rank of cabinet minister in the British government.

After leaving the House of Commons and the government on May 11, 2005, Boateng became High Commissioner in South Africa and held this office until May 2009. Shortly after his return to Great Britain, he was appointed Trustee of the Museum of London in 2009 .

On 1 July 2010 he was appointed Life peer with the title of Baron Boateng , of Akyem in the Republic of Ghana and of Wembley in the London Borough of Brent, in the nobility raised and thus a member of the House of Lords .

Boateng, who also serves on the board of directors of London- based private security and military company Aegis Defense Services , became a member of the Board of Governors of the London School of Economics and Political Science in 2011 .

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SURNAME Boateng, Paul, Baron Boateng
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British politician, Member of the House of Commons and diplomat
DATE OF BIRTH June 14, 1951
PLACE OF BIRTH Hackney , London , England