Estelle Morris

The Right Honourable The Baroness Morris of Yardley PC
Official portrait, 2019
Minister of State for the Arts
In office 13 June 2003 – 5 May 2005
Prime Minister	Tony Blair
Preceded by	The Baroness Blackstone
Succeeded by	David Lammy (Culture)
Secretary of State for Education and Skills
In office 8 June 2001 – 24 October 2002
Prime Minister	Tony Blair
Preceded by	David Blunkett (Education and Employment)
Succeeded by	Charles Clarke
Minister of State for School Standards
In office 28 July 1998 – 8 June 2001
Prime Minister	Tony Blair
Preceded by	Stephen Byers
Succeeded by	Stephen Timms
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for School Standards
In office 2 May 1997 – 28 July 1998
Prime Minister	Tony Blair
Preceded by	Cheryl Gillan
Succeeded by	George Mudie
Member of the House of Lords Lord Temporal
Incumbent
Assumed office 14 June 2005 Life peerage
Member of Parliament for Birmingham Yardley
In office 9 April 1992 – 11 April 2005
Preceded by	David Bevan
Succeeded by	John Hemming
Personal details
Born	Estelle Morris (1952-06-17) 17 June 1952 (age 72) Manchester, England
Political party	Labour
Parent	Charles Morris (father)
Relatives	Alf Morris (uncle)
Alma mater	Coventry College of Education

Estelle Morris, Baroness Morris of Yardley, PC (born 17 June 1952), is a British politician and life peer who served as Secretary of State for Education and Skills from 2001 to 2002. A member of the Labour Party, she was Member of Parliament (MP) for Birmingham Yardley from 1992 to 2005.

As Education Secretary, she is famous for removing compulsory modern languages from secondary schools in England in 2002.^[1]