Estelle Morris

The Right Honourable Estelle Morris (born 1952) is a English Labour politician and was briefly a member of the Cabinet.

Morris was born to a strongly political family. Her uncle, Alf Morris , was Labour MP for Manchester Wythenshawe from 1964 and her father, Charles Morris, was Labour MP for Manchester Openshaw 1963-83. She is a graduate of the 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.

Morris was elected to Parliament in 1992 for Birmingham Yardley 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 post in 2002, explaining that she did not feel up to the job. 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. She stepped down as a Member of Parliament, and so as a minister, at the 2005 general election.

External links

• Department for Culture, Media and Sport - Rt Hon Estelle Morris MP
• Guardian Politics Ask Aristotle - Estelle Morris
• TheyWorkForYou.com - Estelle Morris MP