Sally Morgan, Baroness Morgan of Huyton

Sally Morgan, Baroness Morgan of Huyton

Sally Morgan, Baroness Morgan of Huyton (born June 28, 1959 ) is a British Labor Party politician who has been a Life Peeress member of the House of Lords since 2001 .

Life

Teacher, local politician and party official

After attending school at The Belvedere Academy and studying geography at Durham University , which she graduated with a Bachelor of Arts (BA Geography) degree in 1980 , Sally Morgan completed a postgraduate degree in education at King's College London , which she completed in 1981 with a postgraduate degree Certificate in Education (PGCE). After that she was from 1981 to 1985. teacher of geography at a secondary school and undertook subsequent to the party headquarters of the Labor Party, where she first organizer for students, then 1987-1993 Senior Assistant for Political homing and, most recently 1993-1995 Director for election campaigns and elections was. During this time she was active in local politics between 1986 and 1990 as a member of the council of the London Borough of Wandsworth .

She then acted as the liaison between the party and Tony Blair , the then leader of the opposition in the House of Commons , between 1995 and 1997 . After the Labor Party won the general election on May 1, 1997 and Tony Blair took office as Prime Minister , Sally Morgan served as the Prime Minister's Political Secretary from 1997 to 2001.

Member of the House of Lords and Minister of State

By a letters patent dated June 20, 2001, Sally Morgan was raised to the nobility as a life peeress with the title Baroness Morgan of Huyton , of Huyton in the County of Merseyside . Shortly thereafter took place on 21 June 2001 its introduction ( Introduction ) as a member of the House of Lords . In the House of Lords she belongs to the Labor Party faction .

After briefly working in the State Ministry in the Cabinet Office from June 11 to November 9, 2001 , she was director for government relations in the Prime Minister's office until 2005.

She subsequently became a member of the supervisory boards of The Carphone Warehouse Group and Southern Cross Healthcare plc and a member of the advisory board of the Institute of Education (IOE). She was also a member of the board of the Olympic Delivery Company , the administrative organization for the infrastructure, venues and branches at the 2012 Summer Olympics and the 2012 Summer Paralympics in London . In addition, she served temporarily as a board member of the Foundation des Mayor of London , advisor to the board of the children's charity Absolute Return for Kids (ARK) and as chair of the Future Leaders Charity .

Since 2010, Baroness Morgan has been Head of the Office for Standards in Education, Children's Services and Skills, which is part of the Chief Inspector for English Schools .

Web links

• Entry on Parliament's homepage (accessed on 23 November 2012)
• Sally Morgan at Hansard (English)
• Entry in They Work For You (accessed November 23, 2012)
• Biography in Debrett's (accessed November 23, 2012)