Margaret Ann 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, Blackheath and Somerville College, Oxford. Between 1965 and 1977 she held production posts within the BBC, working on current affairs and further education television programmes. She then became a journalist on the BBC's prestigious Panorama programme, and Thames Television's This Week.

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  • Margaret Ann 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, Blackheath and Somerville College, Oxford. Between 1965 and 1977 she held production posts within the BBC, working on current affairs and further education television programmes. She then became a journalist on the BBC's prestigious Panorama programme, and Thames Television's This Week. She went on to present the BBC 2 series Social History of Medicine, as well as being a contributor to Newsnight, Any Questions, Question Time and other current affairs programmes. She has a strong interest in health issues, notably as a campaigner on HIV and AIDS. She was a founder director of the National Aids Trust in 1987. She is also a patron of Help the Aged. She was appointed a life peer in 1992 with the title of Baroness Jay of Paddington, of Paddington in the City of Westminster, and acted as an opposition Whip in the House of Lords. In association with the shop workers' union, she led opposition to the liberalisation of Sunday trading hours. After her party's election victory in 1997, she became Health Spokesman and Minister for Women in the House of Lords. 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. It is a significant feature of her political career that every office held was an unelected appointment; she was never actually elected to any public office. Among numerous non-executive roles that she has taken on since retiring from politics, she is a non-executive director of BT Group. She is currently co-chair of the cross-party Iraq Commission which was established by the Foreign Policy Centre think-tank and Channel 4. Before her resignation, Jay gave an interview in which she said she did not believe in private education; it was afterwards revealed that her three children had all attended private schools. On her own part, she said she attended a "pretty standard grammar school," which was actually Blackheath High School, an independent school. She drew ridicule when she said she could understand the needs of rural voters because she had a "little cottage" in the country; this turned out to be a £500,000 house in Ireland, and she also had a large £300,000 house in the Chilterns though this had long belonged to her husband's family. She fought to expel hereditary peers, arguably like herself, from the Lords (although, as an appointed life peer, she wasn't included in the expulsion). For this, the Daily Mail wrote that Jay "has been accused of hypocrisy more often than any other member of the Government."
  • Margaret Ann Jay, baronowa Jay of Paddington, brytyjska dziennikarka i polityk, członkini Partii Pracy, minister w pierwszym rządzie Tony'ego Blaira. Jest córką byłego laburzystowskiego premiera, Jamesa Callaghana, i jego żony, Audrey Moulton. Wykształcenie odebrała w Blackheath High School oraz w Somerville College na Uniwersytecie w Oksfordzie. W latach 1965-1977 pracowała w BBC, gdzie zajmowała się sprawami bieżącymi oraz programami edukacyjnymi. Następnie została dziennikarką prestiżowego programu BBC Panorama oraz programu Thames Television This Week. Następnie przeszła do BBC 2, gdzie pracowała przy programie Social History of Medicine oraz Newsnight, Any Questions, Question Time i innych podobnych programach informacyjnych. Interesowała się sprawami ochrony zdrowia. Prowadziła kampanię przeciwko HIV i AIDS. W 1987 r. została dyrektorem założycielskich National Aids Trust. Jest również patronem Help the Aged. W 1992 r. otrzymała dożywotni tytuł parowski baronowej Jay of Paddington. Związana z Partią Pracy występowała jako whip opozycji w Izbie Lordów. Związana ze związkiem zawodowym pracowników sklepowych występowała przeciwko liberalizacji godzin pracy w niedziele. Po zwycięstwie Partii Pracy w wyborach 1997 r. została mówcą na tematy zdrowia oraz ministrem ds. kobiet w Izbie Lordów. W 1998 r. została przewodniczącą Izby i na tym stanowisku odegrała znaczą rolę w jej reformie w 1999 r. Równocześnie była Lordem Tajnej Pieczęci. Z obu tych stanowisk zrezygnowała w 2001 r. , kiedy to przeszła na emeryturę. Obecnie jest jednym dyrektorów BT Group oraz współprzewodniczącą międzypartyjnej komisji ds. Iraku. W 1961 r. poślubiła dziennikarza, Petera Jaya, syna laburzystowskich polityków Douglasa i Peggy z domu Garnett. W 1977 r. został on ambasadorem w USA. Margaret nawiązała tam romans z dziennikarzem Carlem Bernsteinem, sławnym z powodu afery Watergate. Małżonkowie rozwiedli się w 1986 r. Margaret związała się wówczas z profesorem ekonomii Robertem Neildem. W 1994 r. poślubiła specjalizującego się w AIDS profesora Michaela Adlera. Margaret ma troje dzieci: Tamsin, Alice i Patricka.
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  • Margaret Ann 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, Blackheath and Somerville College, Oxford. Between 1965 and 1977 she held production posts within the BBC, working on current affairs and further education television programmes. She then became a journalist on the BBC's prestigious Panorama programme, and Thames Television's This Week.
  • Margaret Ann Jay, baronowa Jay of Paddington, brytyjska dziennikarka i polityk, członkini Partii Pracy, minister w pierwszym rządzie Tony'ego Blaira. Jest córką byłego laburzystowskiego premiera, Jamesa Callaghana, i jego żony, Audrey Moulton. Wykształcenie odebrała w Blackheath High School oraz w Somerville College na Uniwersytecie w Oksfordzie. W latach 1965-1977 pracowała w BBC, gdzie zajmowała się sprawami bieżącymi oraz programami edukacyjnymi.
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