Estelle Morris
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Estelle Morris, Baroness Morris of Yardley, PC (born 1952) is an English Labour politician and member of the House of Lords. She was briefly a member of the Cabinet.
Estelle Morris was born to a strongly political family. Her uncle, Alf Morris, was Labour MP for Manchester Wythenshawe from 1964 and her father, Charles Morris, was Labour MP for Manchester Openshaw 1963-83. She is a graduate of the University of Warwick. She was a teacher at the inner-city Sidney Stringer school in Coventry and was a member of Warwick District Council from 1979 to 1991.
Morris was elected to Parliament in 1992 for Birmingham Yardley She became a minister in the Department for Education and Employment in 1997 and was promoted to Secretary of State for Education and Skills in 2001. She quit her post in 2002, explaining that she did not feel up to the job. She rejoined the government in 2003 as Minister for the Arts in the Department for Culture, Media and Sport, and caused further comment when she admitted that she did not know much about contemporary art. She stepped down as a Member of Parliament, and so as a minister, at the 2005 general election.
In April 2005 it was announced that she will become the pro vice-chancellor of the University of Sunderland. On 13 May 2005 it was announced that she would be created a life peer, and the title was created as Baroness Morris of Yardley, of Yardley in the County of West Midlands, on 15 June 2005.[1] (http://politics.guardian.co.uk/lords/story/0,9061,1483494,00.html)
External links
- Guardian Politics Ask Aristotle - Estelle Morris (http://politics.guardian.co.uk/person/0,9290,-3736,00.html)
- TheyWorkForYou.com - Estelle Morris MP (http://www.theyworkforyou.com/mp/?pid=10445)
| Preceded by: Sec. State. Education and Employment David Blunkett | Secretary of State for Education and Skills 2001–2002 | Succeeded by: Charles Clarke |