Tessa Jowell

Tessa Jane Helen Jowell, DBE (birth name: Tessa Jane Helen Palmer; born September 17, 1947 in Marylebone, London, England) is a British politician of the Labour Party.

Life

After attending St Margaret's School for Girls, she studied at the University of Edinburgh, the University of Aberdeen, and most recently at Goldsmiths College, University of London and was only then from 1969 to 1971 worked in childcare. In 1970 she married the social scientist Roger Jowell, who like herself was from 1971 to 1986 member of the Council of the London Borough of Camden and of which she was divorced in 1976. Between 1972 and 1974 employed as a social worker before she was 1974-1986 Deputy Director of MIND, a charity for the mentally ill. In 1979 she married her second husband, the lawyer David Mills, and separated from this in 2006. Between 1987 and 1990 she worked as a Senior Research Scientist.

In the general election of 9 April 1992, she was first elected as Member of Parliament for the Labour Party in the House of Commons and represented there at first until 1 May 1997 Constituency Dulwich. Since the general election of 1 May 1997, it represents the constituency of Dulwich and West Norwood in the House.

After the election of the Labour Party in the 1997 General Election she was first Minister of State in the Ministry of Health and then from 1999 to 2001 Minister of State at the Department for Education and Employment. After confirming the Labour government at the general election on 7 June 2001, she was appointed by Prime Minister Tony Blair as successor of her intra-party rivals Chris Smith to the Minister for Culture, Media and Sport and held that office until June 2007. During this time she was at the same time from May 2005 to May 2006 Minister for Women. In July 2005 she took over the post of Minister for the Olympics in London in 2012 and took on this task until the end of the Labour government in May 2010, true, and they had to institute a reduction in the growing costs during their tenure. As culture minister, she was one of the sponsors of operating in Shanghai and in 2006 opened art gallery Island6. In her role as sports minister, she campaigned, albeit later without success, for an alignment of the Football World Cup 2018 in England.

In June 2007, she was by Gordon Brown, the successor to Blair as Prime Minister, appointed (General Paymastress ) to the Paymaster General and held that office until the end of Brown's term of office in May 2010. Tessa Jowell June 2007 to October 2008 and at the same time was again between June 2009 and May 2010 Minister for London. Besides, she was from June 2009 to May 2010 as Minister in the Cabinet Office also one of the closest aides of Prime Minister Brown.

During her tenure as Minister, there were repeated - but ultimately not nachgewiesenenen - allegations and controversies about financial misconduct of her then husband David Mills in connection with the Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi.

After the election defeat of the Labour Party at the general election on 6 May 2010, she was appointed by the then Acting Chairman of the Labour Party, Harriet Harman, as Shadow Minister for Cabinet Affairs in the shadow cabinet and remained in this position until October 2010 and is next since May 2010 shadow Secretary of State for the 2012 Olympics. since January 2011 it is again shadow Minister for Cabinet Affairs in the shadow cabinet of the new Labour leader Ed Miliband.