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Margaret Jay, Baroness Jay of Paddington

The Right Honourable
The Baroness Jay of Paddington
PC
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Chair of the Constitution Committee
Assumed office
2010
Preceded by The Lord Goodlad
Leader of the House of Lords
Lord Privy Seal
In office
27 July 1998 – 8 June 2001
Prime Minister Tony Blair
Preceded by The Lord Richard
Succeeded by The Lord Williams of Mostyn
Minister for Women
In office
27 July 1998 – 8 June 2001
Prime Minister Tony Blair
Preceded by Harriet Harman
Succeeded by Patricia Hewitt
Personal details
Born Margaret Ann Callaghan
(1939-11-18) 18 November 1939 (age 77)
Political party Labour
Spouse(s) Peter Jay (1961–1986)
Michael Adler
Children Tamsin
Alice
Patrick
Alma mater Somerville College, Oxford

Margaret Ann Jay, Baroness Jay of Paddington, PC (née Callaghan; born 18 November 1939) is a British politician for the Labour Party and former BBC television producer and presenter.

Her father was James Callaghan, a Labour politician and Prime Minister, and she was educated at Blackheath High School, Blackheath and Somerville College, Oxford.

Between 1965 and 1977 she held production posts within the BBC, working on current affairs and further education television programmes. She then became a journalist on the BBC's prestigious Panorama programme, and Thames Television's This Week and presented the BBC 2 series Social History of Medicine. She has a strong interest in health issues, notably as a campaigner on HIV and AIDS. She was a founder director of the National Aids Trust in 1987 and is also a patron of Help the Aged.

Between 1994 and 1997, Baroness Jay was the Chairman of the charity Attend (then National Association of Hospital and Community Friends). In 2003, she was elected Vice-President of Attend.

She was appointed a life peer on 29 July 1992 with the title of Baroness Jay of Paddington, of Paddington in the City of Westminster, and acted as an opposition Whip in the House of Lords. In association with the shop workers' union, she led opposition to the liberalisation of Sunday trading hours.


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