Tessa joewell biography definition

Tessa Jowell once said she'd "jump under a bus" for Tony Blair. She was probably only half-joking. However, her loyalty to New Labour was more than simply tactical or careerist.

She was pro-European and in favour of a mixed-economy when both were deeply unfashionable on the left.

Tessa joewell biography definition

Her belief that Labour should "modernise" was passionately held - forged at the coal face of a decade of Labour local activism.

Baroness Jowell will be remembered at Westminster as someone who managed to be ideologically committed to her cause without overt sectarian bitterness.

Tessa Jane Helen Douglas Palmer began her life in London in September 1947 - the oldest of three siblings.

Like Blair, hers was a middle-class family of Conservative voters.

Her childhood was spent in Aberdeen - where her father, Kenneth, was a chest specialist at the university medical school. Her radiographer mother, Rosemary, bridled against the soci