Estelle Morris - Definition and Overview

The Right Honourable Estelle Morris (born 1952) is a English politician, Labour Party member of Parliament for Birmingham Yardley, and was briefly a member of the Cabinet. She is a graduate of the prestigious 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. She was elected to Parliament in 1992. 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 job in 2002, explaining that she didn't feel up to it. 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 but announced in September 2004 that she intended to step down as an MP, and so as a minister, at the next general election.

External links

• Department for Culture, Media and Sport - Rt Hon Estelle Morris MP (http://www.culture.gov.uk/about_dcms/ministers/estelle_morris.htm)
• 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)