“Margaret McDonagh, Baroness McDonagh”的意思、由来-开放百科全书

McDonagh was part of the New Labour leadership inner-circle for the 1997 general election campaign and was one of the inner-core deciding the official party position on specific issues.^[2]^[5]

In 1998, McDonagh became Labour's first female general secretary, after serving as deputy general secretary the previous year. She was not always popular with the grassroots and parts of the Parliamentary Party due to her perceived 'control-freakery'.^[2]^[4] She was considered to have badly mishandled the party's London mayoral candidate selection process, which resulted in Ken Livingstone winning the election as an independent candidate, leaving the official Labour candidate Frank Dobson in third place, with subsequent disaffection amongst the party members.^[5]^[2]^[6] McDonagh later apologised for the mayoral electoral loss.^[5] Her organisational skills came to the fore however in the delivery of a second landslide victory at the 2001 general election.^[2] She was also criticised for accepting, without consultation, a £100,000 donation from Daily Express an adult magazine publisher Richard Desmond, and still counting as party members those in arrears of up to 15 months to delay news of declining membership emerging.^[7]

After stepping down from the position of General Secretary following the 2001 general election,^[8] McDonagh took a short Harvard University business course and became General Manager of Express Newspapers.^[9]^[10] She has been a non-executive director of Standard Life, TBI plc and CareCapital Group plc. She is Chair of the Standard Life Charitable Trust.^[3]

She was created a life peer on 24 June 2004 taking the title Baroness McDonagh, of Mitcham and of Morden in the London Borough of Merton.^[11]

In 2013 Margaret McDonagh was appointed chair of the Smart Meter Central Delivery Body, which then became Smart Energy GB, an independent organisation that aims to inform consumers about smart meters and their national rollout across Great Britain.^[12]^[13]

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1. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.parliament.uk/biographies/lords/margaret-mcdonagh/32314 |title=Archived copy |accessdate=2013-02-12 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130202202323/http://www.parliament.uk/biographies/lords/margaret-mcdonagh/32314 |archivedate=2 February 2013 |df= }}
2. ^¹²³⁴⁵{{cite news |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/news/vote2001/hi/english/key_people/newsid_1179000/1179292.stm |title=Margaret McDonagh: Labour general secretary |author=Ray Dunne |publisher=BBC |date=27 March 2001 |accessdate=14 June 2014}}
3. ^¹{{Who's Who |surname=McDONAGH |othernames=Baroness |id=U44450 |edition=Dec 2013 online |accessed=16 June 2014}}
4. ^{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2001/mar/29/labour.bookextracts |title=Labour pains |author=Liz Davies |newspaper=The Guardian |date=29 March 2001 |accessdate=16 June 2014}}
5. ^{{cite news |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/669019.stm |title=Livingstone sparks Labour inquest |author=Nick Assinder |publisher=BBC |date=7 March 2000 |accessdate=14 June 2014}}
6. ^{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2000/mar/08/londonmayor.uk4 |title=Knives out for McDonagh after selection fiasco |author=Nicholas Watt and Kevin Maguire |newspaper=The Guardian |date=8 March 2000 |accessdate=14 June 2014}}
7. ^{{cite news |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/david-triesman-the-blairite-trade-unionist-determined-to-square-the-funding-circle-174655.html |title=David Triesman: The Blairite trade unionist determined to square the funding circle |last=Grice |first=Andrew |newspaper=The Independent |date=25 August 2002 |accessdate=7 April 2018}}
8. ^{{cite news |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1358398/Smiles-mask-the-tensions-at-the-end-of-McDonaghs-reign.html |title=Smiles mask the tensions at the end of McDonagh's reign |author=Andy Mcsmith |newspaper=Daily Telegraph |date=4 October 2001 |accessdate=16 June 2014}}
9. ^¹²{{cite news |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/1593233.stm |title=Former Labour chief joins Express |publisher=BBC |date=11 October 2001 |accessdate=14 June 2014}}
10. ^{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/media/2001/oct/12/pressandpublishing.politics |title=Woman behind Labour landslides gets job at Express |author=Matt Wells and Kevin Maguire |newspaper=The Guardian |date=12 October 2001 |accessdate=14 June 2014}}
11. ^{{London Gazette |issue=57341 |date=30 June 2004 |page=8139}}
12. ^{{cite web |url=http://www.smart-meter.org.uk/appointment-of-central-delivery-body-chair-baroness-margaret-mcdonagh-3/ |title=Appointment of Central Delivery Body Chair Baroness Margaret McDonagh |publisher=Central Delivery Body |date=19 June 2013 |accessdate=14 June 2014 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://archive.is/20140615101318/http://www.smart-meter.org.uk/appointment-of-central-delivery-body-chair-baroness-margaret-mcdonagh-3/ |archivedate=15 June 2014 |df=dmy-all }}
13. ^{{cite news |url=http://www.express.co.uk/comment/expresscomment/481365/Baroness-McDonagh-on-engaging-people-with-smart-meters |title=Smart meters will revolutionise how we pay for energy |author=Baroness Mcdonagh |newspaper=Daily Express |date=10 June 2014 |accessdate=14 June 2014}}

Early life

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