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The Right Honourable Margaret Jay, Baroness Jay of Paddington, PC , is a British politician for the Labour Party.
Her father was former Labour Prime Minister James Callaghan, and she was educated at Blackheath High School and Somerville College, Oxford. In 1969, she married fellow-journalist, Peter Jay, who was later appointed ambassador to the United States of America by Dr. David Owen, Foreign Secretay 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. She has since married Professor Michael Adler, who chaired the National Aids Trust when she was its director. At the time 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 administation.
In the 1980's, 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, 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 and continues to live with her current husband, Michael Adler.
| Preceded by: The Lord Richard |
Leader of the House of Lords 1998–2001 |
Followed by: The Lord Williams of Mostyn |
| Lord Privy Seal 1998–2001 |
References
biographical article, NZ Herald 2005
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