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Tessa Jane Helen Douglas Jowell, Baroness Jowell, DBE, PC (née Palmer; 18 September – 12 May ) was a British Labour Party politician and life peer who..
Tessa Jowell
British Labour politician and life peer
Tessa Jane Helen Douglas Jowell, Baroness Jowell, DBE, PC (néePalmer; 18 September – 12 May ) was a British Labour Party politician and life peer who served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Dulwich and West Norwood, previously Dulwich, from to
Jowell held a number of major government ministerial positions, as well as opposition appointments, during this period.
Dame Tessa Jowell served as a Member of Parliament for 23 years, including 13 years as a Minister in the Labour Government and eight in the Cabinet.
She served as Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport from to and Minister for the Cabinet Office from to A member of both the Blair and Brown Cabinets, she was also Minister for the Olympics (–10) and Shadow Minister for the Olympics and Shadow Minister for London until September , resigning after the London Olympic Games.
A Privy Counsellor from ,[1] she was appointed Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) in [2] She stood down from the House of Commons at the general election.
She was nominated for