Sally Hamwee, Baroness Hamwee

Sally Hamwee, Baroness Hamwee, 2019

Sally Rachel, Baroness Hamwee (born January 12, 1947 ) is a British politician of the Liberal Democrats . She is a life peer and former chair of the London Assembly .

Sally Hamwee went to Manchester High School for Girls . She was a city councilor in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames from 1978 to 1998 and was raised to life peer status in 1991 as Baroness Hamwee , of Richmond upon Thames in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames.

At the initiating session in 2000, a written agreement was signed with the Labor Party, which provided for the chairmanship to be shared between Sally Hamwee and Trevor Phillips . Trevor Phillips assumed the chairmanship in 2000 and passed it on to Sally Hamwee in May 2001. Trevor Phillips was then chairman again from May 2002 to September 2002; when Trevor Philips resigned his seat in the Assembly to take over the chairmanship of the Commission for Racial Equality , she took over the chairmanship until the end of the legislative period in 2004.

The result of the 2004 election led to a result comparable to that of the previous legislative period, this time between the Conservatives and the Liberal Democrats. Sally Hamwee took over the chairmanship from May 2005 to May 2006 and from May 2007 until the end of the legislative period.

She lost her seat in May 2008.

At the House of Lords, she was the Liberal Democrats' spokesperson on regional and local affairs, and in November 2009 she became the domestic affairs spokesperson.

Hamwee is the Vice President of Parity .

Individual evidence

1. ^ School events . Manchester High School for Girls. 2011. Archived from the original on July 29, 2011. Retrieved October 19, 2013.

• Who's Who 2008 , (A. & C. Black, 2007)

Web links

• profile at the site of Liberal Democrats profile at the site of Liberal Democrats
• TheyWorkForYou.com's page for Baroness Hamwee TheyWorkForYou.com's page for Baroness Hamwee