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Andrew Adonis, Baron Adonis
British politician and journalist (born 1963)
Andrew Adonis, Baron Adonis, PC (born Andreas Adonis; 22 February 1963)[3] is a British Labour Party politician and journalist who served in HM Government for five years in the Blair ministry and the Brown ministry.
He served as Secretary of State for Transport from 2009 to 2010, and as Chairman of the National Infrastructure Commission from 2015 to 2017. He was Chair of the European Movement, from March 2021 until December 2022[4] having previously served as Vice-Chairman from 2019 to 2021. He is currently a columnist for The New European.[5]
Adonis began his career as an academic at the University of Oxford, before becoming a journalist at the Financial Times and later The Observer.[3][6][7] Adonis was appointed by Prime Minister Tony Blair to be an advisor at the Number 10 Policy Unit, specialising in constitutional and educational policy, in 1998. He was later promoted to become the Head of the Policy Unit from 2001 until being created a life peer in 2005, when he was appointed Minister of State for Education in HM Government.[3][6] He remained in that role when Gordon Brown became Prime Minister in 2007,
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Roy Jenkins's Asquith was my first political biography. I read it, stuck in boarding school at the age of 15, during the winter of discontent. I remember the sense of excitement and awe as the story unfolded, and my admiration in equal measure for Asquith himself and Jenkins the statesman-biographer. I recall the date because I reached the last chapter and Asquith's condemnation of the general strike, his last political act, just as the campaign of strikes and union intimidation paralysed Britain in the spring of 1979. It seemed to me at the time that the winter of discontent marked the final destruction of Asquith's liberal idealism, and I was puzzled by Jenkins's continuing allegiance to the Labour party. Nonetheless, I immediately went on to read Mr Balfour's Poodle, Jenkins's account of the struggle between Asquith's government and the reactionary House of Lords, and immersed myself in political history.
Such were the seeds of an association which ultimately led to my becoming Jenkins's biographer. The historical and political strands were to intertwine to an improbable degree. On the historical side, Mr Balfour's Poodle sparked in me a fascination with the House of Lords and the remarkable blend of radicalism and tradition which characterised Gladstone and his successor