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Margaret Jay, Baroness Jay of Paddington
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The Right Honourable '''Margaret Jay, Baroness Jay of Paddington''',
Privy Council of the United Kingdom PC, is a
United Kingdom British politician for the
the Labour Party (UK) Labour Party.
Her father was former Labour
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Prime Minister James Callaghan, and she was educated at
Blackheath, London Blackheath High School and
Somerville College, Oxford. In 1969, she married fellow-journalist,
Peter Jay, who was later appointed ambassador to the
United States United States of America by Dr.
David Owen, Foreign Secretary in Callaghan's government. While in the USA, she met
Carl Bernstein, with whom she had a much-publicised relationship in
1979 -- with the result that she was unflatteringly depicted in a novel by Bernstein's wife,
Nora Ephron. Her husband had an equally noted affair with their nanny. Peter and Margaret were divorced in 1986 after eighteen years of marriage and she lived for awhile with Professor
Robert Neild, the Cambridge economist. In 1994, she married Professor
Michael Adlerwho had been chair of the National
Aids Trust when she was its director, during which period he was married to
Karen Dunnell. In association with the shop workers' union, she led opposition to the liberalisation of Sunday trading hours and continued to campaign on
HIV issues. She was appointed a
working peer and her first government appointment in 1997 was as a health spokesman in the
House of Lords in
Tony Blair's first administration.
In the 1980s, she was a journalist with the
BBC, working on the prestigious Panorama programme, before her creation as a Baroness in
1992. She was an opposition
whip (politics) Whip, and after her party's election victory was made a health spokesman and Minister for Women. From 1998, she was
Leader of the House of Lords, playing a pivotal role in the major reform that led to the removal of most of its hereditary members. She retired from active politics in
2001. Among numerous non-executive roles that she has taken on since retiring from politics, she is a non-executive director of
BT Group [http://www.btplc.com/Thegroup/Theboard/Non-executivedirectors/TheRtHonBaronessJayofPaddingtonPC/margjay.htm] and lives with her husband,
Michael Adler.
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Ivor Richard The Lord Richard'''
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Leader of the House of Lords'''
1998–2001
|width="30%" align="center" rowspan=2|Followed by:
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Gareth Wyn Williams The Lord Williams of Mostyn'''
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Lord Privy Seal'''
1998–2001
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References
[http://www.nzherald.co.nz/organisation/story.cfm?o_id=84&ObjectID=10334333 biographical article, NZ Herald 2005]
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Category:1940 births Jay, Margaret
Category:Children of Prime Ministers of the United Kingdom Jay, Margaret
Category:Female life peers Jay, Margaret
Category:Former students of Somerville College, Oxford Jay, Margaret
Category:Life peers Jay, Margaret
Category:Living people Jay, Margaret
Category:Lords Privy Seal Jay, Margaret
Category:Members of the Privy Council Jay, Margaret
Category:UK Labour Party politicians Jay, Margaret
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