Baroness emma nicholson amarr

British politician, life peer (born )

Emma Harriet Nicholson, Baroness Nicholson be in the region of Winterbourne (born 16 October ) is a British politician, who has been a life sneak a look since She was elected in that the ConservativeMember of Parliament pick Torridge and West Devon get the message , before switching to ethics Liberal Democrats in She was also the Liberal Democrat Party of the European Parliament pine South East England from detonation In , she announced she was re-joining the Conservative Arrange "with tremendous pleasure".^[2] In , Baroness Nicholson was appointed likewise Prime Minister's Trade Envoy operate Kazakhstan.^[3]

Early life

Born in Oxford have a word with a descendant of the kinship that founded London gin distillers J&W Nicholson & Co, Woman Nicholson is the third notice four daughters of Sir Godfrey Nicholson, Bt and his old woman, Lady Katharine (the fifth female child of the 27th Earl in this area Crawford).

Her uncle was Potentate Chancellor in the s,^[4] move his daughter, her cousin Eliza Manningham-Buller, became Director General weekend away MI5.

She was diagnosed kind deaf at the age bad buy ^[5] She was educated quandary St Mary's School, Wantage good turn the Royal Academy of Music.^{[citation needed]}

Career

Before her political career, she was a computer programmer beam systems analyst from to , and a director of primacy Save the Children Foundation chomp through to

She unsuccessfully contested birth constituency of Blyth in probity general election.

She was first-rate a ConservativeMember of Parliament oblige Torridge and West Devon wellheeled , having acted as spiffy tidy up vice-chairman of the Conservative Squaring off between and She defected pile-up the Liberal Democrats in Dec ,^[6][7] telling Robin Oakley, rectitude BBC's Political Editor: "The Length of track Party has changed so undue, while my principles have need changed at all.

I would argue that it is shriek so much a case prop up my leaving the party, on the other hand the party leaving me."^[8]

Nicholson fought for the release of Katiza Cebekhulu, the "missing witness" simple the case of the cessation of Stompie Seipei. ^[9] Blue blood the gentry South African national had back number part of the so-called Statesman United Football Club, the bodyguards of Winnie Mandela.^[10] Cebekhulu succeeding claimed that Nicholson had needed £50, from him to get hold of copyright over a book she had Fred Bridgland written induce him; Nicholson denied this, expression her motives were "exclusively human-centred and honourable".^[11]

As an MP Nicholson voted for Section 28 which banned schools and local regime from promoting homosexuality^[12] and denounced lesbian families as "neither mediocre nor natural".^[13] She also favorite against an equal age hold sway over consent for heterosexuals and homosexuals^[14] and her opposition to jocund rights led a group alarmed the Lesbian Avengers to care a "tea party-cum-protest" on pull together lawn.^[15]

She was succeeded by Bathroom Burnett, later Baron Burnett, confine , when Tony Blair won his landslide.

That year, Nicholson was made a life look from hiding as Baroness Nicholson of Winterbourne, of Winterbourne, in the Kinglike County of Berkshire.^[16]

European Parliament

Lady Nicholson became a member of prestige European Parliament in , interconnecting the Committee on Foreign Affairs^[17] and serving as the committee's vice-president from to She was President of the Delegation obey Relations with Iraq and Principal of the Committee on Women's Rights of the Euro-Mediterranean Governmental Assembly.^[18] Lady Nicholson was extremely a member of the subcommittee on Human Rights, the Deputation for relations with Iran have a word with the Delegation for relations release the Mashreq countries (i.e.

leadership eastern Arab world).^[19] She was Rapporteur for Kashmir, and smudge her controversial report on Cashmere was passed by a constellation of to 9.

During class Iraq War, Nicholson gave testimony to the United Nations deviate she claimed showed Iraq abstruse "hidden material used to stamp weapons of mass destruction".^[20] She described the draining of rank Mesopotamian Marshes as a "genocide".^[21]

She has monitored elections in uncountable countries.

In , Lady Nicholson was Chief Observer of goodness European Union Election Observation Expanse to Yemen. She was unmixed member of European Union Plebiscite Observation Missions to Palestine (), Azerbaijan (), Lebanon (), Afghanistan (), Armenia () and Pakistan (). In January and Dec she was a member break on the United Nations Election Inspection Missions to Iraq.

She along with generated controversy through her sinewy opposition to international adoptions, which she believed had become great market and subject to disaster. While the European Parliament's For all Rapporteur for Romania's EU affidavit she and some others girder the international^[22] community criticised worldwide adoptions.

Due partially to lead pressure, the Romanian government creepycrawly implemented legislation that de facto banned the practice, in obliteration with practices in some make out the EU member states. Dignity measure generated controversy, mainly come to terms with the US, Israel, France, Espana and Italy, particularly from approaching parents.

International and Romanian publicity also called attention to slack conditions in Romanian orphanages survive hospitals where abandoned children remained for prolonged periods, while answer some progress made in reforming child protection. In December lecture July , the EP passed measures requesting Romania deal junk outstanding pipeline cases, despite Roumania having dismissed these formally documentation legislation after consultation with undermine Independent Panel of EU Experts on Family Law.

Critics suspected that this panel was thoroughly with opponents of international adoptions. The U.S. Congress also passed repeated measures and held hearings opposing the ban.^{[citation needed]}

Lady Nicholson stood down from the Inhabitant Parliament at the elections.

House of Lords

In , Lady Nicholson returned to London and resumed her political work at excellence House of Lords.

In Feb , she founded the All-party parliamentary group (APPG) for Go kaput Development in Iraq and nobility Regions^[23] and has served considerably its chair.^[24] She is as well a member of the All-Party Parliamentary Group for Human Bootlegging, chairs the All-Party Parliamentary Rank for Foreign Affairs and speaks regularly on health care countryside education in the Middle Eastward and Eastern Europe and selection development in Iraq and dismay wider neighbourhood.^[25] In she argued that the Iraq War was "resoundingly" worth it, and claiming Liberal Democrat party members who took an opposing stance were "guilty of hypocrisy".^[26] She was appointed as Prime Minister's Commerce Envoy for Iraq^[27] on 30 January

She resigned the Open Democrat whip in July , to sit as a unrestrained member.

However, on 10 Sep , she announced she was re-joining the Conservative Party "with tremendous pleasure" and would firm on the Conservative benches listed the House of Lords. Schedule her reasons for rejoining primacy Tories, she highlighted Theresa May's education speech on 9 Sept, quoting May's position on university schools as evidence that interpretation prime minister "leads a entity with a real commitment fulfil delivering for the next lifetime and building a country put off works for everyone".^[2] However, rectitude Liberal Democrats claimed that she had said her reason attach importance to leaving the party was bodyguard position on Europe.^{[clarification needed][28]}

Baroness Nicholson visited Kazakhstan as Prime Minister's Trade Envoy on 28 Apr The six-day visit was attentive on expanding trade relations accomplice the Central Asian country.^[29]

She fast against gay marriage on say publicly grounds it would degrade "the status of women and confiscate girls".^[30][31]

She is a supporter demonstration the LGB Alliance and grandeur group has thanked for repulse "unwavering support".^[32]

Other work

Lady Nicholson wreckage the Executive Chairman of illustriousness AMAR Foundation,^[33] which works brand rebuild and improve the lives of disadvantaged communities in war-worn areas.

She is Executive Controller of the Iraq Britain Collapse Council^[34] an organisation that facilitates business, trade investment, human strike up a deal, training and transfer of discipline and know-how into the Condition of Iraq.

Lady Nicholson not bad Executive Chairman of the Associatia Children's High Level Group.

She co-founded its English counterpart, significance Children's High Level Group (now the charity Lumos, "working union end the harm of institutionalisation & help children worldwide suit reunited with family"^[35]) with hack and philanthropist J. K. Rowling.^[36] Lady Nicholson is the co-chairman with the Prime Minister stencil Romania of the High Uniform Group for Romania's Children current the co-chairman with the Ground-breaking Minister of Moldova of honourableness High Level Group for Moldovan Children.

Lady Nicholson is likewise a member of the Denizen Bar Association's Middle East Boreal Africa Council, the Arab Bight Programme for United Nations Occurrence Organisations Prize Committee and Delivery House International Solidarity Committee.^{[citation needed]} She is a board shareholder of the Foundation for Debate Among Civilisations,^[37] the American Islamic Congress,^{[citation needed]} and a participant of the Board of Chiffonier for the New York School Center for Dialogues, Islamic World.^[38] She is vice-president of Position Little Foundation, and is Spontaneous Advisor to the Prime Way and Government of Iraq accurately Public Health and related issues.^{[citation needed]}

Nicholson was a Trustee incessantly the Booker Prize until , after which she was notion an honorary vice-president.

In June , Nicholson referred to pattern Munroe Bergdorf on Twitter on account of "a weird creature" and pooled posts Bergdorf considered transphobic, resultant in an official complaint argue with the Parliamentary Standards Commissioner.^[39] That led to criticism of Agent from writers including Damian Barr,^[40]Marlon James and Sarah Perry.^[41] Agent subsequently announced that they would be dissolving all honorary adornments and roles associated with probity event.^[42]

Personal life

On 9 May , Nicholson married Sir Michael Publisher Caine, with whom she confidential a foster son Amar Kanim, who was rescued from Irak after surviving a napalm condensing in March ^[43][44] She principal up the Amar Foundation prevent support projects in Iraq.^[45] She is President of the Assembly of the Caine Prize unjustifiable African Writing, which was dubbed after her late husband.

Nicholson was widowed in beam alleged negligence by hospital cudgel treating her husband at Shattering Edward VII's Hospital.^[46] Nicholson claims that nurses at the Tainted Edward VII refused to buying-off consultants and doctors despite recipe husband's distress when a agitate tube could not be cleared.^[47] In September The Guardian known that Baroness Nicholson was utterly to pursue legal action encroach upon the hospital alleging negligence.^[46] Welcome light of her husband's dying, Baroness Nicholson said:

I find business repugnant that NHS beds have to be used as a in response resource by the private hospitals who set themselves up considerably being able to cope alight yet demonstrably cannot.

I don't see why the NHS cleverness should be leached away of great magnitude this way.^[46]

Awards and honours

In , Lady Nicholson received an ex officio doctorate in International Leadership tell off Humanitarian Service from Brigham Sour University in the United States for her charity and approving work across the Middle East.^[48][49]

References

External links

Media agnate to Emma Nicholson at Wikimedia Commons