About Tessa Jowell
Tessa Jane Helen Douglas Jowell, Baroness Jowell (née Palmer; 17 September 1947 – 12 May 2018), was a British Labour Party politician and life peer who served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Dulwich, from 1992 to 1997, followed by Dulwich and West Norwood, from 1997 to 2015. Jowell held a number of major government ministerial positions, as well as opposition appointments, during this period. She served as Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport from 2001 to 2007 and Minister for the Cabinet Office from 2009 to 2010. 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 Counsellor from 1998, Jowell 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 UK general election. She was nominated for a 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. In September 2015, she was unsuccessful in seeking to be selected as the Labour Party's official candidate in the 2016 London mayoral election, coming second to Sadiq Khan in the contest of six candidates. As the first Minister for Public Health she championed cross-sectoral action to improve health and reduce inequalities, initially set out in her green paper "Our Healthier Nation". In opposition, Jowell supported David Miliband's campaign to become Leader of the Labour Party, but served in Ed Miliband's Shadow Cabinet when he became Leader of HM Opposition.
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