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词条 Helen Liddell
释义

  1. Early life

  2. Early career

  3. Parliamentary career

  4. After politics

  5. Personal life

  6. References

  7. Further reading

  8. External links

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Helen Lawrie Liddell, Baroness Liddell of Coatdyke, PC (born 6 December 1950) is a British Labour Party politician who served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Monklands East from 1994 to 1997, and then for Airdrie and Shotts until 2005.

Liddell then became the British High Commissioner to Australia until 2009, having previously been appointed a Cabinet Minister as Secretary of State for Scotland.

On 28 May 2010, it was announced in the Dissolution Honours List that she would be created a Life Peer.[2]

Early life

Liddell was born Helen Lawrie Reilly, and was the daughter of a Catholic father[3] and a Protestant mother. She was educated at St. Patrick's Catholic High School on Muiryhall Street in Coatbridge, and attended at the same time as John Reid, whom she later replaced as Secretary of State for Scotland and who also succeeded her as MP for Airdrie and Shotts.

She graduated as a BA in Economics from the University of Strathclyde and joined the Labour Party, where she became the first female General Secretary of the Scottish Labour Party at the age of 26 from 1977–78.

Early career

A former BBC Scotland economics journalist from 1976–77, Liddell has taken flak for her closeness to media proprietor Robert Maxwell. Working as aide she once followed him on one occasion in to a gents' toilet while being followed by a TV crew. She was also the public affairs director of Maxwell's Scottish Daily Record.[4]

After Maxwell's disgrace she tried to distance herself from him claiming that she had never worked for Maxwell.[5]

Helen Liddell published one novel about women in politics, called Elite (Century, 1990).

Parliamentary career

She contested East Fife at the October 1974 general election.

Liddell was first elected to Parliament in 1994, at the closely contested Monklands East by-election following John Smith's death. She was appointed a Privy Councillor on 27 October 1998.[6]

She was Secretary of State for Scotland from 2001–03, a position whose powers had been transferred to the Scottish Executive after devolution in 1999. In addition, she angered the monks of Buckfast Abbey when she called on them to stop selling Buckfast in Scotland. She was dubbed Minister for Monarch of the Glen[7] after several visits to the set of the hit BBC series.

The disclosure that she was able to work French lessons into her ministerial diary[8] raised questions about the relevance of Scottish Secretary's job post-devolution and it was abolished as a full-time position in 2003, when the Scotland Office was rolled into the Department for Constitutional Affairs.

After politics

She took up appointment as[9] British High Commissioner to Australia in the summer of 2005. She was succeeded in the role by Valerie, Baroness Amos in October 2009.[10]

She was created a Life Peer on 7 July 2010 taking the title Baroness Liddell of Coatdyke, of Airdrie in the County of Lanarkshire,[11] six days later becoming a House of Lords member where she sits till this day.[12] In 2010–11 Liddell was a member of the independent Philips inquiry into the 1994 Scotland RAF Chinook crash on the Mull of Kintyre, established by the Secretary of State for Defence.[13]

Personal life

She married Alistair Liddell in 1972; they have one son and one daughter.[14]

References

1. ^{{cite book |last=Publications |first=Europa |date=2003 |title=The International Who's Who 2004 |url=https://books.google.com/?id=sR4Ch1dMe8IC&pg=PA1004&lpg=PA1004&dq=helen+liddell+international+whos+who#v=onepage&q=helen%20liddell%20international%20whos%20who&f=false |location= |publisher=Psychology Press |page=1004 |isbn=9781857432176 |author-link= }}
2. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.number10.gov.uk/news/latest-news/2010/05/peerages-honours-and-appointments-51162 |title=Peerages, honours and appointments |date=28 May 2010 |publisher=10 Downing Street |accessdate=24 June 2010 |archivedate=1 June 2010 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20100601013232/http://www.number10.gov.uk/news/latest-news/2010/05/peerages-honours-and-appointments-51162 |deadurl=no |df=dmy }}
3. ^{{cite web|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/4260120/Helens-secret-shocks-the-Pope.html|title=Helen's secret shocks the Pope|work=The Daily Telegraph}}
4. ^{{cite news|url=http://www.coventrytelegraph.net/news/business-news/page.cfm?objectid=11008314&method=full&siteid=50003 |title=Business News |newspaper=Coventry Telegraph |date=30 March 2001 |archivedate=23 July 2011 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110723060237/http://www.coventrytelegraph.net/news/business-news/page.cfm?objectid=11008314&method=full&siteid=50003 |deadurl=yes |df=dmy }}
5. ^{{cite news|newspaper=The Independent|date=3 November 2001|location=London|url= https://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/news/capn-bob-we-wont-hear-a-bad-word-said-against-him-615855.html|title=Cap'n Bob? We won't hear a bad word said against him|first=Sonia|last=Purnell|accessdate=4 May 2010}}
6. ^"Helen Liddell Appouinted to Transport Minister Post", Local Government Chronicle, 19 May 1999
7. ^{{cite news|newspaper=The Guardian |url=https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2003/jan/27/uk.scotland |location=London |title=Haggis and press sneers fail to stop tough Scot |first=Jackie |last=Ashley |date=27 January 2003 |accessdate=4 May 2010 |archivedate=26 October 2012 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20121026031854/http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2003/jan/27/uk.scotland |deadurl=no |df=dmy }}
8. ^{{cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml?xml=/opinion/2002/02/06/dl0605.xml |newspaper=The Daily Telegraph |location=London |title=Helen Do-little |date=6 February 2002 |accessdate=4 May 2010 |deadurl=no |archivedate=22 March 2007 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20070322024619/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml?xml=%2Fopinion%2F2002%2F02%2F06%2Fdl0605.xml |df=dmy }}
9. ^{{cite news|newspaper=The Guardian |location=London |url=https://www.theguardian.com/australia/story/0,12070,1184698,00.html |title=Liddell set to be Australian high commissioner |first=Matthew |last=Tempest |date=2 April 2004 |accessdate=4 May 2010 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110514080917/http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2004/apr/02/foreignpolicy.uk |archivedate=14 May 2011 |deadurl=yes |df=dmy }}
10. ^{{cite press release|title=Change of British High Commissioner to Australia |publisher=British High Commission, Canberra |date=3 July 2009 |accessdate=10 July 2009 |url=https://www.gov.uk/government/news/change-of-high-commissioner-to-australia |archivedate=31 August 2011 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110831202556/https://www.gov.uk/government/news/change-of-high-commissioner-to-australia |deadurl=no |df=dmy }}
11. ^{{London Gazette|issue=59485|date=12 July 2010|page=13181}}
12. ^{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/10601991 |title=Helen Liddell goes to the Lords |work=BBC News Online |date=13 July 2010 |deadurl=no |archivedate=16 July 2010 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20100716202618/http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/10601991 |df=dmy }}
13. ^{{cite web | publisher = House of Commons |url = http://www.mullofkintyrereview.org.uk/sites/default/files/Mull%20of%20Kintyre%20Review%20Report.pdf |title = The Mull of Kintyre Review |authors=Rt Hon Lord Philip, Rt Hon the Lord Forsyth of Drumlean, Rt Hon the Baroness Liddell of Coatdyke, Rt Hon Malcolm Bruce MP|via = The Stationery Office |date = 13 July 2011 |accessdate = 13 July 2011 |isbn = 978-0-1029-5237-7| archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160531215132/http://www.mullofkintyrereview.org.uk/sites/default/files/Mull%20of%20Kintyre%20Review%20Report.pdf| archivedate= May 31, 2016|deadurl=yes}}
14. ^Debrett's People of Today{{dead link|date=November 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}

Further reading

  • Torrance, David, The Scottish Secretaries (Birlinn 2006)

External links

  • Debrett's People of Today{{dead link|date=November 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}
  • Guardian Politics Ask Aristotle – Helen Liddell
  • [https://www.theyworkforyou.com/mp/?pid=10360 TheyWorkForYou.com – Helen Liddell MP]
  • Satirical website dedicated to Helen Liddell
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