Baroness Estelle Morris
A former teacher, Estelle Morris became an MP in 1992 and worked her way up to the post of opposition spokesperson on Education and Employment, before becoming Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Schools Standards, and Secretary of State for Education and Skills. She famously resigned her post as Education Secretary in 2002, having made a commitment to the then Conservative Shadow Education Secretary to resign if the literacy and numeracy targets were not met. She then became Minister for the Arts in 2003, before stepping down from the government and as a Member of Parliament in the 2005 general election. Estelle Morris was raised to the peerage as Baroness Morris of Yardley in 2005.

Baroness Morris is currently President of the National Children’s Bureau, a charitable organisation acting as an umbrella body for organisations working with children and young people in England & Northern Ireland.

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