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Tessa Jane Helen Douglas Jowell, Baroness Jowell, DBE, PC (née Palmer; born 17 September 1947) is a British Labour Party politician, who was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Dulwich and West Norwood from 1992 to 2015. She held a number of major government ministerial positions, as well as opposition appointments, during this period.
Her most senior position in Government was as Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, a post she held from 2001 to 2007. A member of both the Blair and Brown Cabinets, she was also Minister for the Olympics (2005-2010) and Shadow Minister for the Olympics and Shadow Minister for London until September 2012, resigning after the London Olympic Games.
A Privy Councillor since 1998, she was appointed Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) in 2012.
She stood down from the House of Commons at the 2015 General Election. She was nominated for life peerage in the 2015 Dissolution Honours and was raised to the peerage as Baroness Jowell, of Brixton in the London Borough of Lambeth, on 27 October 2015.
Anthony Charles Lynton Blair (born 6 May 1953) is a British Labour Party politician, who served as the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1997 to 2007. He now runs a consultancy business and performs charitable work. Blair was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Sedgefield from 1983 to 2007 and Leader of the Labour Party from 1994 to 2007. Blair led Labour to a landslide victory in the 1997 general election, winning 418 seats, the most the party has ever held. The party went on to win two more elections under his leadership: in 2001, in which it won another landslide victory, and in 2005, with a reduced majority.
Blair was elected Labour Party leader in the leadership election of July 1994, following the sudden death of his predecessor, John Smith. Under Blair's leadership, the party used the phrase "New Labour" to distance it from previous Labour policies and its opposition to the traditional conception of socialism. Blair declared support for a new conception that he referred to as "social-ism", involving politics that recognised individuals as socially interdependent, and advocated social justice, cohesion, equal worth of each citizen, and equal opportunity. Critics of Blair denounced him for having the Labour Party abandon genuine socialism and accepting capitalism. Supporters, including the party's public opinion pollster Philip Gould, stated that after four consecutive general election defeats, Labour had to demonstrate that it had made a decisive break from its left-wing past, in order to win again.
James Gordon Brown (born 20 February 1951) is a British Labour Party politician who was the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and Leader of the Labour Party from 2007 until 2010. He previously served as Chancellor of the Exchequer in the Labour Government from 1997 to 2007. Brown was a Member of Parliament (MP) from 1983 to 2015, first for Dunfermline East and later for Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath.
A doctoral graduate of the University of Edinburgh, Brown spent his early career working as both a lecturer at a further education college and a television journalist. He entered Parliament in 1983 as the MP for Dunfermline East. He joined the Shadow Cabinet in 1989 as Shadow Secretary of State for Trade, and was later promoted to become Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer in 1992. After Labour's victory in 1997, he was appointed Chancellor of the Exchequer, becoming the longest-serving holder of that office in modern history.
Brown's time as Chancellor was marked by major reform of Britain's monetary and fiscal policy architecture, transferring interest rate setting powers to the Bank of England, by a wide extension of the powers of the Treasury to cover much domestic policy and by transferring responsibility for banking supervision to the Financial Services Authority. Controversial moves included the abolition of advance corporation tax (ACT) relief in his first budget, and the removal in his final budget of the 10% "starting rate" of personal income tax which he had introduced in 1999. In 2007, Tony Blair resigned as Prime Minister and Labour Leader and Brown was chosen to replace him in an uncontested election.
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Labour MP Tessa Jowell is interviewed on a range of topics including her plan to run for the London mayor job, and how multi-millionaire liked the £18bn politicians willy-waving Olympics in London (because everyone involved in the Olympics got rich from London screwing taxpayers). Recorded from London Live, Headline Interview, 26 January 2015.
Labour's Tessa Jowell on her wanting to be London Mayor, not content with her fucking over London taxpayers with the compulsory tax for the Olympics that the freeloaders wanted, but none of the taxpayers paying for it wanted. Recorded from BBC1 HD, Andrew Marr Show, 14 June 2015.
Tessa Jowell answers questions from the other three candidates to be Labour's Mayoral Candidate during LBC's Labour Mayoral Debate. Subscribe to LBC: http://bit.ly/SubscribeToLBC LBC: Leading Britain's Conversation DAB Digital Radio Nationwide | 97.3FM FM London
Tony Blairs talks with Tessa Jowell about the events of July 7th 2005 and how it effected the United Kingdom. Subscribe to LBC: http://bit.ly/SubscribeToLBC LBC: Leading Britain's Conversation DAB Digital Radio Nationwide | 97.3FM FM London
London is great, but it should be better. Let's build One London - where we all share in our city's success. Do you want to get involved in the campaign to build One London? Join #TeamTessa here: http://www.tessa.london I want every Londoner to watch my One London video – so I need your help to spread my One London message to all Londoners. So please SHARE it now: Click here to share on Facebook: http://bit.ly/1LmQSh5 Click here to tweet on Twitter: http://bit.ly/1GHGTzP Rooftop location - Bussey Building, Peckham - provided by Rooftop Cinema. Olympics footage provided by Dreaming Fish Productions.
Tessa Jowell makes a ridiculous and divisive sweeping generalisation of men while also implicitly reinforcing female gender stereotypes. What kind of reaction would this receive had it not come from a woman? It's a sad sign of the times that a Daily Mail columnist of all people should show a greater proclivity toward egalitarian virtues than a Labour MP. Excuse the quality.
The BBC's Daily Politics presenter Andrew Neil interviews New Labour failure Tessa "I never read what I sign" Jowell. She certainly doesn't like Andrew Neil's questioning, not used to having to defend her own BS. Recorded from The Daily Politics, 09 June 2009.
Will Self and Tessa Jowell debate the future legacy of the London Olympics (2012). It's exactly one year before the event is due to kick off. Source: BBC Newsnight, 26th July 2011