| The Right Honourable Charles Clarke MP |
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| In office 15 December 2004 – 5 May 2006 |
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| Prime Minister | Tony Blair |
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| Preceded by | David Blunkett |
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| In office 24 October 2002 – 15 December 2004 |
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| Preceded by | Estelle Morris |
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| In office 9 June 2001 – 24 October 2002 |
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| Preceded by | Peter Mandelson |
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Member of Parliament
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| In office 1 May 1997 – present |
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| Preceded by | John Garrett |
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Charles Rodway Clarke (born 21 September 1950) is a British Labour Party politician. Events 1217 - The Estonian tribal leader Lembitu of Lehola was killed in a battle against Teutonic Knights. Year 1950 ( MCML) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. London ( ˈlʌndən is the capital and largest urban area in the United Kingdom. England is a Country which is part of the United Kingdom. Its inhabitants account for more than 83% of the total UK population whilst its mainland The Labour Party is a Political party in the United Kingdom. Founded at the start of the 20th century it has been since the 1920s the principal party of the Alma mater is Latin for "nourishing mother" It was used in Ancient Rome as a title for the mother Goddess, and in Medieval King's College Cambridge is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge. Events 1217 - The Estonian tribal leader Lembitu of Lehola was killed in a battle against Teutonic Knights. Year 1950 ( MCML) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom, the UK or Britain,is a Sovereign state located The Labour Party is a Political party in the United Kingdom. Founded at the start of the 20th century it has been since the 1920s the principal party of the A politician (from Greek " Polis " is an individual who is involved in influencing public decision making through the influence of Politics or a person He has been Member of Parliament for Norwich South since 1997 and was Home Secretary from December 2004 until May 2006. A Member of Parliament, or MP, is a representative elected by the voters to a Parliament. Norwich South is a parliamentary constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. The Secretary of State for the Home Department, commonly known as the Home Secretary, is the minister in charge of the United Kingdom Home Office
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Early Life
The son of Civil Service Permanent Secretary Sir Richard Clarke, Charles Clarke was born in London. The Permanent Secretary, in most departments officially titled the Permanent Under-Secretary of State (although the full title is rarely used is the most senior civil Sir Richard William Barnes Clarke KCB, OBE (commonly known as Otto Clarke) ( 13 August 1910 &ndash 21 June 1975 He attended the fee-paying Highgate School where he was Head Boy. Sir Roger Cholmeley's School at Highgate (Highgate School is a British Independent School in London England Head Boy and Head Girl are terms commonly used in the British education system, and in private schools throughout the Commonwealth. He then read Mathematics and Economics at King's College, Cambridge, where he also served as the President of the Cambridge Students' Union. King's College Cambridge is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge. The University of Cambridge (often Cambridge University) located in Cambridge, England, is the second-oldest university in the Cambridge University Students' Union (CUSU is the university-wide representative body for students at the University of Cambridge, England. A member of the Broad Left faction, he went on to become President of the National Union of Students from 1975 to 1977. Broad Left is a coalition of left members usually involving independents members of the Labour Party Communist Party of Britain and other left wing organisations in a Trade The National Union of Students ( NUS) is the main confederation of Students' unions that exist inside the United Kingdom. Clarke was widely opposed by the moderate element of the Broad Left, and was contrasted (unfavourably) with his more consensus-oriented predecessor John Randall. Proponents of his election spoke, however, of his considerable political savvy.
Local Council
He was elected as a local councillor in the London Borough of Hackney, being Chair of its Housing Committee and Vice-Chair of economic development from 1980 to 1986. The London Borough of Hackney ( is a London borough in North-East London and forms part of Inner London. He worked as a researcher, and later Chief of Staff, for Labour Party leader Neil Kinnock from 1981 to 1992. The Labour Party is a Political party in the United Kingdom. Founded at the start of the 20th century it has been since the 1920s the principal party of the Neil Gordon Kinnock Baron Kinnock PC (born 28 March 1942 is a British Politician. His long association with Kinnock and with the general election defeat in 1992 was expected to handicap him in his career. Results |} The turnout was 33514074 from an Electorate of 43275316 voting in a total of 651 seats But Clarke bounced back. He spent the mid-1990s away from national politics, working in the private sector - from 1992 to 1997, he was chief executive of Quality Public Affairs, a public affairs management consultancy - and subsequently emerged as a high flyer under the Labour leadership of Tony Blair.
Member of Parliament
Elected to the British House of Commons in the Labour landslide of 1997, Clarke served less than a year on the back benches before joining the government as a junior education minister in July 1998. The House of Commons' is the Lower house of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, which also comprises the Sovereign and the House of Lords Results The election was fought under new boundaries with a net increase of eight seats compared to the 1992 election He moved to the Home Office in 1999 and joined the Cabinet as Minister without Portfolio and Party Chair after the 2001 general election. The Home Office is the United Kingdom government department responsible for security and order In the Politics of the United Kingdom, the Cabinet is a formal body composed of the most senior government ministers chosen by the Prime Minister A Minister without Portfolio is either a Government minister with no specific responsibilities or a minister that does not head a particular ministry. Party Chair is the Chairman of a Political party. His or her position differs from country to country Results |} Total votes cast 26368204 All parties with more than 500 votes shown
Education Secretary
He returned to Education as Secretary of State on 24 October 2002 after the resignation of Estelle Morris. Secretary of State is a commonly used title for a Government Official. Events 69 - Second Battle of Bedriacum, forces under Antonius Primus the commander of the Danube armies loyal to Vespasian, defeat See also 2002 (disambiguation Year 2002 ( MMII) was a Common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. Estelle Morris Baroness Morris of Yardley PC (born 17 June 1952 Manchester) is a British Labour politician and member of the House of As Education Secretary, he defended Oxbridge, encouraged the establishment of specialist secondary schools, and (allegedly) suggested that the state should not fund "unproductive" humanities research. Oxbridge was originally a fictional composite of the University of '''Ox'''ford and the University of Cam'''bridge''' in England, and the term is now His view of universities could be seen as either impressively bold or overly instrumental. In 2003, he boiled down the point of all higher education to one simple sentence when he announced: "Universities exist to enable the British economy and society to deal with the challenges posed by the increasingly rapid process of global change". He also oversaw the introduction of Bills to enable universities in the UK to charge top-up fees, despite a Labour manifesto commitment not to introduce such fees. A university is an institution of Higher education and Research, which grants Academic degrees in a variety of subjects The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom, the UK or Britain,is a Sovereign state located Top-up fees (not their official name are a new way of charging Tuition to Undergraduate and PGCE Students who study at universities
Home Secretary
Following the first resignation of David Blunkett on 15 December 2004, Clarke was made Home Secretary, one of the senior positions in the Cabinet. David Blunkett (born 6 June 1947 is a British Labour Party Politician and has been Member of Parliament for Sheffield Brightside Events 533 - Byzantine general Belisarius defeats the Vandals, commanded by King Gelimer, at the Battle of "MMIV" redirects here For the Modest Mouse album see " Baron von Bullshit Rides Again " The Secretary of State for the Home Department, commonly known as the Home Secretary, is the minister in charge of the United Kingdom Home Office
He was swiftly at the centre of attention for his advocacy of proposals for countering terrorism. Critics suggest that his reforms to the judicial system undermine centuries of British legal precedent dating back to the 1215 Magna Carta, particularly the right to a fair trial and trial by jury. Magna Carta ( Latin for Great Charter, literally " Great Paper " also called Magna Carta Libertatum ( Great Charter of Freedoms The right to fair trial is an essential right in all countries respecting the Rule of law. He was also criticised for continuing to push through the Identity Cards Bill, seen by some as serious infringement of privacy, but Clarke insisted that Identity Cards were necessary to combat terrorism. Enabling legislation for the British national identity card was passed under the Identity Cards Act 2006 An identity document, also called a piece of identification ( ID) is a document used to verify aspects of a person's Identity.
During the 2005 UK Presidency of the European Union, Clarke pressed other member states to pass a directive to require communications data to be stored for law enforcement purposes. The European Union ( EU) is a political and economic union of twenty-seven member states, located primarily in The directive was criticised as infringing civil liberties and privacy, and critics also noted that the directive had been approved very quickly.
Foreign prisoners scandal
On 25 April 2006 it emerged that 1,023 foreign prisoners had been freed without being considered for deportation. Events 1607 - Eighty Years' War: The Dutch fleet destroys the anchored Spanish fleet at Gibraltar. Year 2006 ( MMVI) was a Common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. Among the offenders, five had been convicted of committing sex offences on children, seven had served time for other sex offences, 57 for violent offences and two for manslaughter. There were also 41 burglars, 20 drug importers, 54 convicted of assault and 27 of indecent assault. Former Home Secretary David Blunkett commented that “Heads should roll” over the scandal, despite the fact that many of the releases occurred during his period as Home Secretary (see [1]).
The Home Office later revealed that of those, 288 were released from prison between August 2005 and March 2006 - suggesting the problem continued after it had been raised with the government. The National Audit Office told ministers last July that preparations to remove foreign criminals from the UK should begin "much earlier", and not be left until the end of their prison sentences. Clarke said: "It is a massive issue and it's true to say, with the vast growth of foreign national prisoners, we took our eye off the ball. "The first priority at this moment is to get the situation under control - that is what I'm focusing on. "We don't know exactly where everybody is . . . I know where about 100 of those 1,000 now are, and we are going through the most urgent cases" (see[2]).
Out of government
The foreign prisoners scandal led many to call for Clarke's resignation, not only from the opposition; Clarke reportedly offered to resign, but Tony Blair, the Prime Minister, refused to accept. Anthony Charles Lynton "Tony" Blair (born 6 May 1953 is a British Politician who was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 2 May 1997 to This article is about the government position For other uses see Prime Minister (disambiguation. However, in the wake of a poor Labour performance in the local council elections of 4 May 2006, Clarke was axed in the biggest cabinet upheaval in the history of the Blair governments, to be replaced by Defence Secretary John Reid. Events 1256 - The Augustinian monastic order is constituted at the Lecceto Monastery when Pope Alexander IV Year 2006 ( MMVI) was a Common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. Dr John Reid (born 8 May 1947 is a British Politician who was formerly the Home Secretary and also filled several other cabinet positions including Having reputedly turned down the offer of other positions by Blair, Clarke is now a backbencher. For other meanings see Backbench A backbencher is a Member of Parliament (MP or a legislator who does not hold governmental
At the end of June 2006, he did a series of interviews in which he criticised John Reid for claiming that the Home Office was "unfit for purpose", and that the Prime Minister ought to have defended him to enable him to continue seeing through the reforms he had initiated when first appointed to the post. However, he did state that although Tony Blair had lost his sense of purpose, he wanted to see Blair continue as PM.
In September 2006 Clarke took up a consultancy post with a leading London law firm, leading to speculation he anticipated not returning to frontline politics. [3]
Labour leadership controversy
On 8 September 2006, Clarke gave an interview to the Evening Standard in which he criticised the 'presumption' that Gordon Brown would succeed Tony Blair as Prime Minister, helping trigger further disputes about the Labour leadership. Events 70 - Roman forces under Titus sack Jerusalem. 1264 - The Statute of Kalisz Year 2006 ( MMVI) was a Common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. WikipediaManual of Style (biographies#Academic titles --> James Gordon Brown (born 20 February 1951 is Anthony Charles Lynton "Tony" Blair (born 6 May 1953 is a British Politician who was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 2 May 1997 to Clarke said of Brown's reaction to the leadership crisis, "A lot of people are very upset and cross about that. It was absolutely stupid - a stupid, stupid thing to do. " He named Alan Milburn as a politician who had the stature to be Prime Minister instead of Brown. Alan Milburn (born 27 January 1958 is a British Politician. He is Labour Party Member of Parliament (MP for Darlington, and served [4][5]
Clarke furthered his attack on Brown in an interview with the Daily Telegraph on the following day, accusing Brown of being "a control freak", "deluded" and "uncollegiate". For "The Daily Telegraph" in Australia see The Daily Telegraph (Australia. In Psychology -related slang control freak is a derogatory term for a person who attempts to dictate how everything around them is done [6]
Clarke with Alan Milburn set up The 2020 Vision website to discuss the direction of the Labour party after Tony Blair steps down from being prime minister. Some observers see this as a way for Gordon Brown's political opponents to create an axis against him. [7] The website has since closed.
Personal Life
Clarke married Carol Pearson in 1984. They have two sons, Matt and Chris, and live in Norwich. History Roman The Romans had their regional capital at Venta Icenorum on the river to the south which is near modern-day Caistor St Edmund
Clarke speaks Cuban Spanish (a legacy of his student links with Cuba), French, and German. The Republic of Cuba (ˈkjuːbə or) consists of the island of Cuba (the largest and second-most populous island of the Greater Antilles) Isla de la
In 2004 he became a Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society to acknowledge its contribution to education and in memory of his father, who had been a statistician. The Royal Statistical Society (RSS is a Learned society for Statistics and a Professional body for Statisticians in the UK.
External links
- Guardian Unlimited Politics - Ask Aristotle: Charles Clarke MP
- TheyWorkForYou.com - Charles Clarke MP
- BBC News - Charles Clarke profile 17 October, 2002
- Charles Clarke takes a leading role in promoting animal protection.
- The Very Model of a Modern Labour Minister - a musical tribute to Charles Clarke and his ID cards bill.
| Parliament of the United Kingdom | ||
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| Preceded by John Garrett |
Member of Parliament for Norwich South 1997 – present |
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| Preceded by John Randall |
President of the National Union of Students 1975-77 |
Succeeded by Sue Slipman |
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Minister without Portfolio (Labour Party Chair) 2001–2002 |
Succeeded by John Reid |
| Preceded by Estelle Morris |
Secretary of State for Education and Skills 2002 – 2004 |
Succeeded by Ruth Kelly |
| Preceded by David Blunkett |
Home Secretary 2004 – 2006 |
Succeeded by John Reid |
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