Michael Wills

Michael David Wills, Baron Wills of North Swindon in the County of Wiltshire and Woodside Park in the London Borough of Barnet ( born May 20, 1952) is a British Labour Party politician, who was 1997-2010 Member of Parliament in the House of Commons and since 2010 a member of the House of Lords.

Life

Studies, careers and the House deputy

After attending the Haberdashers ' Aske 's Boys ' School in Elstree Wills began studying history at Clare College, University of Cambridge, which he finished with a Bachelor of Arts (BA History) in 1976.

He then joined the Foreign Service of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, where he worked until 1980. After that, he was a research staff at London Weekend Television, where he met Peter Mandelson before he was director of the production company Juniper Productions 1984-1997.

In the general election on 1 May 1997 Wills was selected as the Labour candidate for the Members of the House of Commons and represented in this up to the general election on 6 May 2010 the constituency represented Swindon North.

Junior Minister

On January 4, 1999, he was appointed by Prime Minister Tony Blair to the Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Trade and Industry Ministry and was there as a " junior minister" responsible for small businesses, Trade and Industry until 28 July 1999. Subsequently, he was on 28 July 1999 to 11 June 2001 Parliamentary Under- Secretary of State in education and employment ministry before to 29 May 2002, he was Parliamentary Under-Secretary at the Lord Chancellor after. On 2 June 2002 Wills Parliamentary Under- Secretary of State at the Home Office (Home Office ) and was responsible for information technology in the criminal justice system until 11 July 2003.

Blair's successor as Prime Minister, Gordon Brown, Wills appointed on 28 June 2007 to the Minister of State in the Ministry of Justice. This office he held until the election defeat of the Labour Party at the general election on May 6, 2010.

House of Lords member and other features

After retiring from government and the House of Commons, he was elevated to the peerage by Letters Patent on 10 July 2010 as the life peer with the title Baron Wills of North Swindon in the County of Wiltshire and Woodside Park in the London Borough of Barnet. On 12 July 2010 his Introduction ( Introduction) followed as a member of the House of Lords.

Lord Wills is committed to currently also a board member of the Institute for the Study of German literature and romance of the University of London and member of the Advisory Council of Transparency International in the UK.