Helen Liddell, Baroness Liddell of Coatdyke
Helen Liddell, Baroness Liddell of Coatdyke, of Airdrie, Lanarkshire PC (birth name: Helen Lawrie Reilly, born December 6, 1950 in Coatbridge, Scotland ) is a British politician of the Labour Party, which was, among other Scotland minister.
Life
Journalist and member of Parliament,
Helen Reilly studied after visiting the St. Patrick's Catholic High School in Coatbridge at the University of Strathclyde where she earned a Bachelor of Arts (BA). After her marriage in 1972 she became involved in the Labour Party and was a candidate for this first time in the 1974 general election in the constituency of East Fife unsuccessfully for a seat in the House of Commons.
After working as a business journalist at the BBC from 1976 to 1977, she was until 1978 as the first woman Secretary General of the Scotish Labour Party ( Pàrtaidh Làbarach na h- Alba ), the National Association of the Labour Party in Scotland. Subsequently, she was appearing for the media mogul Robert Maxwell and temporary director of public relations at the Scottish tabloid Daily Record.
In a made necessary by the death of Labour leader John Smith -election ( By-election ) she was elected a member of the lower house in the constituency Monklands East on 30 June 1994 and belonged to this until May 5, 2005, while they last since the lower House elections of 1 May 1997 the constituency of Airdrie and Shotts represented. In 1994, she was part of a led by Lord Philip Commission, which investigated the crash of a Boeing - Vertol CH -47 transport helicopter in Mull of Kintyre. During this period was between 1995 and 1997 spokesperson for the opposition Labour Group in the House of Commons.
Minister and High Commissioner
After the election of the Labour Party in the lower house elections of 1 May 1997, she was initially Economic Secretary to the Treasury (Economic Secretary to the Treasury), and then in 1999 Minister of State in Scotland Ministry, where she was responsible for training from July 1998 to May. After a subsequent brief stint as Minister of State for Transport for the Minister for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, she was responsible between July 1999 and January 2001 Minister of State for Trade and Industry Ministry and there for energy and competitiveness in Europe.
In January 2001, Prime Minister Tony Blair called it the successor of John Reid as Secretary of State for Scotland ( Secretary of State for Scotland ) in his cabinet. This office she held until they are replaced by Alistair Darling in June 2003.
After leaving the House, she was appointed in September 2005 as the successor of Baron Goodlad, as High Commissioner in Australia and has held this position until they are replaced by Baroness Amos in October 2009.
In 2010 she was raised as a Life Peeress with the title Baroness Liddell of Coatdyke, of Airdrie, Lanarkshire to the peerage, and has since been the House of Lords on. Since 2011 she is also a member of the BBC's Commission for privacy ( BBC Privacy Commission).