Margaret Jay, Baroness Jay of Paddington

Margaret Jay, Baroness Jay of Paddington, in the City of Westminister PC ( Birth name: Margaret Callaghan, born November 18, 1939) is a British journalist and politician of the Labour Party, which was Lordsiegelbewahrerin among others.

Life

Margaret Callaghan, daughter of the future Prime Minister James Callaghan, studied after the visit of Blackheath High School on Somerville College, University of Oxford, and in 1965 a journalist for the BBC, where she worked for news programs such as Newsnight. In 1987, she was founding director of the National AIDS Trust.

On July 29, 1992, she was raised as a Life Peeress titled Baroness Jay of Paddington, of Paddington in the City of Westminster to the peerage, and has since been the House of Lords on. Immediately after, she was spokesperson for health policy and Whip of the opposition Labour group and remained in this position until 1997. At the same time it was between 1993 and 1997 a member of the Health Authority, the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea and the City of Westminster.

After the election of the Labour Party in the lower house elections of 1 May 1997, she was Minister of State in the Ministry of Health and also deputy leader of the Government in the House of Lords ( Deputy Leader of the House of Lords). After a cabinet reshuffle, Prime Minister Tony Blair appointed her in July 1998 Lordsiegelbewahrerin, President of the Privy Council, Minister and leader of the House of Lords. These offices she held until June 2001 and was then replaced by Gareth Wyn Williams as Lord Privy Seal.

After her resignation from the Cabinet in 2002, she was chairman of the Overseas Development Institute (ODI ) and was next to it. Between 2002 to 2005 member of the donation committee of the Labour Party from 2002 to 2006 and President of One Thousand Club Furthermore, it was at times a member of the Central Research and Development Committee of the National Health Service ( NHS) and is also a member of the Inter- Nations Advisory Board of Independent News & Media, a Dublin-based media company since 2002.

In 1961 she married the journalist Peter Jay, a son of Douglas Jay, Baron Jay, who was also a member of the House of Commons, Economic and Financial Secretary of the Treasury and Chairman of the Board of Trade. When her father, James Callaghan, in his capacity as Prime Minister of her husband in 1977 appointed ambassador to the United States, there was a public controversy and accusations of nepotism.

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