Estelle Morris, Baroness Morris of Yardley

Estelle Morris, Baroness Morris of Yardley, of Yardley in the County of West Midlands ( born June 17, 1952 in Manchester ) is a British politician of the Labour Party, which was temporarily Minister for Education and Skills.

Life

Origin and member of Parliament,

Estelle Morris came from a family of well-known politicians of the Labour Party from Manchester. Both her ​​father, Charles Morris and Uncle Alf Morris were decades members of the House of Commons. After visiting the Whalley Range Grammar School for Girls, she studied pedagogy at Coventry College of Education and in 1974 earned a Bachelor of Education ( B.Ed. ). Subsequently, she was a teacher for sports and history at Sidney Stringer School in Hillfields.

Estelle Morris began in the late 1970s, their political career in local politics and was 1979-1991 Member of the City Council of Warwick, where from 1982 to 1989 and Chairman of the Group of the Labour Party.

In the general election of 9 April 1992, she was first elected as a candidate of the Labour Party as a member in the House of Commons and represented in this until May 5, 2005 Birmingham Yardley constituency. During her Parliament membership it was only from 1994 to 1995 and then to 1997 Whip spokeswoman for Education and Employment of the opposition Labour group.

After the election of the Labour Party in the lower house elections of 1 May 1997, she was first Parliamentary Under-Secretary at the Ministry of Education and Employment, where she was responsible for academic standards, and after July 1998 to June 2001 Minister of State in the Ministry.

Minister and member of the House of Lords

In a cabinet reshuffle, she was from Prime Minister Tony Blair on June 8, 2001 Minister for Education and Skills ( Secretary of State for Education and Skills ) and thus appointed successor of David Blunkett, the Home Secretary was again. The ministerial office she held until it was replaced by Charles Clarke on 25 October 2002.

Between June 2003 and May 2005, she was Minister of State in the Department for Culture, Media and Sport and was there the responsibility for the arts.

After leaving the Cabinet and the House of Commons was on 21 June 2005 Life Peeress with the title Baroness Morris of Yardley, of Yardley raised in the County of West Midlands in the peerage and became a member of the House of Lords as a member.

Baroness Morris is also involved in a number of public organizations and institutions, and is one director of the Company for performance rights ( Performing Right Society), chairman of the strategy committee of the Institute for Effective Education at the University of York and a member of the Council of Goldsmiths College, University of London. In addition, she is the Chair and Trustee of the National Coal Mining Museum for England in Wakefield and Trustee of The Roundhouse, the Hamlyn Foundation and the Hotcourses Foundation, a charity dedicated to supporting the education of children and adolescents who suffer in Africa to HIV / AIDS are.

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