Andrew Adonis, Baron Adonis

(Redirected from Lord Andrew Adonis) British politician and journalist (born 1963)

The Right HonourableThe Lord AdonisPC
Official portrait, 2019

Chairman of the European Movement
In office 7 March 2021 – 14 December 2022
President	The Lord Heseltine
Vice President	The Lord Clarke of Nottingham The Baroness Quin
Preceded by	Stephen Dorrell
Succeeded by	Mike Galsworthy
Vice Chairman of the European Movement
In office 15 January 2019 – 7 March 2021
President	The Lord Heseltine
Vice President	The Lord Clarke of Nottingham The Baroness Quin
Preceded by	Richard Corbett
Succeeded by	Richard Wilson
Secretary of State for Transport
In office 5 June 2009 – 11 May 2010
Prime Minister	Gordon Brown
Preceded by	Geoff Hoon
Succeeded by	Philip Hammond
Minister of State for Transport
In office 3 October 2008 – 5 June 2009
Prime Minister	Gordon Brown
Preceded by	Rosie Winterton
Succeeded by	Sadiq Khan
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Schools and Learners
In office 10 May 2005 – 3 October 2008
Prime Minister	Tony Blair Gordon Brown
Preceded by	The Lord Filkin
Succeeded by	Sarah McCarthy-Fry
Member of the House of Lords Lord Temporal
Incumbent
Assumed office 23 May 2005 Life peerage

Personal details
Born	Andreas Adonis (1963-02-22) 22 February 1963 (age 61) Hampstead, London, England
Political party	Labour (1995–2015, since 2017)
Other political affiliations	Liberal Democrats (1988–1995) SDP (1985–1988)
Spouse	Kathryn Davies (m. 1994; div. 2015)
Children	2
Alma mater	Keble College, Oxford (BA) Christ Church, Oxford (DPhil)
Profession	Journalist
Website	Official website

Andrew Adonis, Baron Adonis, PC (born Andreas Adonis; 22 February 1963) 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 having previously served as Vice-Chairman from 2019 to 2021. He is currently a columnist for The New European.

Adonis began his career as an academic at the University of Oxford, before becoming a journalist at the Financial Times and later The Observer. 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. He remained in that role when Gordon Brown became Prime Minister in 2007, before becoming Minister of State for Transport in 2008. In 2009, he was promoted to the Cabinet as Transport Secretary, a position he held until 2010.

Adonis has worked for a number of think tanks, is a board member of Policy Network and is the author or co-author of several books, including several studies of the British class system, the rise and fall of the Community Charge, and the Victorian House of Lords. He has also co-edited a collection of essays on Roy Jenkins. Like Jenkins, Adonis speaks with rhotacism. His latest book, Ernest Bevin: Labour's Churchill, is a biography of the Labour politician Ernest Bevin whom, alongside Tony Blair, Adonis regards as a source of inspiration for the modern Labour Party.

Adonis is a strong supporter and advocate of the European Union (EU) and a vocal opponent of Brexit. Following the 2016 United Kingdom European Union membership referendum, he became a key campaigner against the result of the referendum on British departure from the EU, supporting the People's Vote.

Family and education

Adonis's Greek Cypriot father, Nikos, emigrated Cyprus as a teenager, becoming a waiter in London, where he met Adonis's English mother. His mother left the family when he was three, and she has had no communication with him since. Shortly thereafter Adonis and his sister were placed in care, because their father was working long hours and was not able to cope with sole parental responsibilities. Adonis lived in a council children's home until the age of 11, when he was awarded a local education authority grant to attend Kingham Hill School, a boarding school in Oxfordshire.

Adonis studied at Keble College, Oxford, where he graduated with a first-class Bachelor of Arts degree in Modern History in 1984. He pursued further studies at Oxford and undertook a Doctor of Philosophy (DPhil) degree at Christ Church, which he completed in 1988 with a thesis entitled The political role of the British peerage in the Third Reform Act system, c. 1885–1914. He was then elected a fellow in history and politics at Nuffield College.

From 1991 to 1996, Adonis was an education and industry correspondent at the Financial Times, eventually becoming their public policy editor. In 1996, he moved to The Observer to work as a political columnist, leader writer and editor.

Early political career

From 1987 until 1991, Adonis served as an Oxford City Councillor for the Social Democratic Party and later the Liberal Democrats, representing the North Ward. In 1994, he was selected by the Liberal Democrats as their prospective parliamentary candidate for the Westbury constituency, but he resigned after 18 months. In the following year he joined the Labour Party.

During the mid-to-late 1990s he was politically active for Labour in Islington North, the constituency represented by Jeremy Corbyn, and was selected as Labour candidate to contest St George's Ward for Islington London Borough Council in 1998. He withdrew from the process before the election, however, upon being offered a position in the Number 10 Policy Unit as a constitutional and educational policy advisor in 1997. He remained in this role until 2001, when he was promoted to become Head of the Policy Unit.

On 16 May 2005, he was created a life peer as Baron Adonis, of Camden Town in the London Borough of Camden. This made it possible for him to serve as a government minister, representing it in the House of Lords.

HM Government

Lord Adonis became the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Education in the Department for Education and Skills, which was later renamed the Department for Children, Schools and Families. He was closely involved in the London Challenge.

Having been the architect of the academies policy in the Policy Unit, Adonis was also able to be the driving force in Government behind the programme, which replaced failing and under-performing comprehensive schools with all-ability, independently managed academies, run on a not-for-profit basis. By the time he left the Department in October 2008, 133 academies were open and 300 more were in the pipeline. Research by the Department of Education suggests that performance at these early "sponsored" academies increased more quickly than in similar schools in the mainstream sector, however these figures do not take into account underlying factors which affect which schools are likely to become academies. Policies on academies by Adonis were praised by some opposition politicians, including the then Conservative education spokesman Michael Gove, who in 2008 said, "We are on the same page as Andrew Adonis."

He encouraged state schools to adopt practices of the private sector and generally believed in giving individual schools more independence and autonomy from central government and the local education authorities, although he voted against schools having more independent authority in the houses of parliament in 2006. His criticism of under-performing comprehensives made him unpopular with some trade union members and some on the Labour Party's left-wing. In 2006 Adonis supported the conversion of some independent schools under financial duress into state academies, portrayed at the time as a new style of direct grant grammar schools although not selective.

As Tony Blair's head of policy, Adonis was regarded as the architect of tuition fees in 2004 – a policy he criticised and disowned 13 years later.

Having initially kept his position when Gordon Brown became Prime Minister, Adonis was reshuffled to the Department for Transport on 3 October 2008, to become Minister of State. In May 2009, while reviewing potential cycle "super highways" with Kulveer Ranger and then-London Mayor Boris Johnson, the group had a narrow escape when a passing lorry's back door "suddenly flew open, dragged a parked car into the street and smashed into another – just feet from the group".

On 5 June 2009, Adonis was promoted to the Cabinet as Secretary of State for Transport and was sworn a member of the Privy Council. In this role, he pioneered the plan for High Speed 2, the proposed high-speed railway line from London to Birmingham and the north of England. The plan was published shortly before the 2010 election, and has since been adopted and taken forward by subsequent governments, with some changes to the proposed route. In July 2015, Adonis was appointed a non-executive director to HS2 Board Ltd.

Adonis planned and announced the electrification of the Great Western Main Line from London Paddington to Bristol, Cardiff and Swansea, and the electrification of lines in North West England from Manchester to Liverpool and Manchester to Preston. This electrification programme, except for the Cardiff to Swansea section of the Great Western, was taken forward by the coalition government.

Adonis was a key figure in the aftermath of the 2010 general election, which produced a hung parliament. He was reputed to favour a Lib–Lab deal and, given his SDP background, was a member of Labour's negotiating team that attempted to form an administration with the Liberal Democrats. After the Liberal Democrats formed a coalition government with the Conservative Party, Adonis stepped down from frontline politics.

Adonis later returned to active politics in 2012, as part of Ed Miliband's Shadow cabinet reshuffle. He worked with former Shadow Business Secretary Chuka Umunna on crafting Labour's industrial strategy, and previously took up the role of Shadow Minister for Infrastructure in the House of Lords, and overseeing the Armitt Review looking at future infrastructure plans for the Labour Party.

Subsequent career

In July 2010, Adonis became the director of the Institute for Government, an independent charity with cross-party support and Whitehall governance working to improve government effectiveness. Adonis left the Institute for Government in January 2012, to become Chair of Progress, an internal Labour Party organisation. Having been appointed President of the Independent Academies Association, in 2012, Adonis was also admitted as a Liveryman Honoris Causa of the Worshipful Company of Haberdashers, one of the major charitable promoters of academies.

Lord Adonis is a Trustee of Teach First, the charity which recruits graduates to teach in state schools, as well as a Trustee of the vocational education charity Edge, and a Governor of the Baker-Dearing Trust, which supports the establishment of University Technical Colleges, technical schools for 14- to 18-year-olds. He has been a Director of RM Plc since October 2011. His book on education reform – Education, Education, Education – was published by Biteback in September 2012. In November 2014, he was appointed visiting professor at King's College London.

Adonis considered standing to be Labour's candidate for Mayor of London in 2016, but ended his putative campaign in February 2015, endorsing Tessa Jowell.

In October 2015, he resigned the Labour Party whip in the House of Lords to sit as a non-affiliated Peer and lead a newly created National Infrastructure Commission (NIC). However, he resigned from the NIC in December 2017 because of HM Government's approach to Brexit, saying the UK was "hurtling towards the EU's emergency exit with no credible plan for the future of British trade and European co-operation". Adonis said he planned to oppose "relentlessly" the government's European Union (Withdrawal) Bill in the House of Lords. In his resignation letter, he wrote that, as well as Brexit, the recent decision to end the InterCity East Coast rail franchise three years early, at a cost of hundreds of millions of pounds, would also have forced him to quit. He also claimed that "taking us back into Europe will become the mission of our children's generation". On 15 April 2018 Adonis attended the launch event of the People's Vote, a campaign group calling for a public vote on the final Brexit deal between the UK and the European Union.

In 2018, Adonis also became a weekly columnist for The New European, a newly created newspaper which campaigned against Brexit and supported the People's Vote campaign.

In the 2019 European Parliament election, Adonis was second on Labour's party list for South West England but was not elected. Labour's share of the vote was 6.5% (a fall of 7.3% relative to the 2014 result) and the party lost its only MEP in the region.

Adonis was a participant at the 30 May – 2 June 2019 Bilderberg Meeting at Montreux, Switzerland.

Adonis advocated a rapid reopening of UK schools during the COVID-19 pandemic.

In May 2021, Adonis called for Tony Blair to return to frontline politics in the wake of a poll being released showing Labour 15% behind the Conservatives.

Personal life

Adonis was formerly married to Kathryn Davies, who had been a student of his; the couple had two children. Adonis and Davies divorced in 2015. In a profile in the Evening Standard from May 2019, the journalist Julian Glover reported that Adonis was gay. Adonis came out as gay in an interview with the i newspaper in October 2019.

Bibliography

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Books

Andrew Adonis; Keith Thomas, eds. (2004). Roy Jenkins: A Retrospective.
Andrew Adonis, Stephen Pollard (1997). A Class Act: Myth of Britain's Classless Society.
David Butler, Andrew Adonis & Tony Travers (1994). Failure in British government : the politics of the poll tax.
Andrew Adonis (1993). Making Aristocracy Work: The Peerage and the Political System in Britain.
Andrew Adonis; Andrew Tyrie, eds. (1989). Subsidiarity: no panacea.
Andrew Adonis; Tim Hames, eds. (1994). The Thatcher-Reagan Decade in Perspective.
Andrew Adonis (2012). Education Education Education: Reforming England's Schools.
Adonis, Andrew (2013). 5 Days in May: The Coalition and Beyond. Biteback Publishing. ISBN 978-1849545662.
Will Hutton, Andrew Adonis (2018). Saving Britain: How We Must Change To Prosper In Europe. Abacus: Little, Brown Book Group, London. ISBN 978-1408711224.
Andrew Adonis, ed. (2018). Half In Half Out: Prime Ministers on Europe. Biteback Publishing. ISBN 978-1785904349.
Andrew Adonis (2020). Ernest Bevin: Labour's Churchill. Biteback Publishing. ISBN 978-1785905988.

Articles

Our progressives only look dead (prospects for a revival of progressivism in the United Kingdom), 1996, Andrew Adonis

Book reviews

Year	Review article	Work(s) reviewed
2014	Adonis, Andrew (21 November 2014). "Boney's bungles". New Statesman. 143 (5237): 45.	Roberts, Andrew (2014). Napoleon the Great. London: Allen Lane.

Ben Pimlott The Queen: A Biography of Elizabeth II – book review, 1996, Andrew Adonis
Christopher Booker and Richard North The Castle of Lies: Why Britain Must Get Out of Europe – book review, 1996, Andrew Adonis
Anthony Barnett This Time: Our Constitutional Revolution – book review, 1996, Andrew Adonis
Shirley Williams Climbing the Bookshelves: the Autobiography – book review, 2009, Andrew Adonis
Roy Hattersley David Lloyd George: the Great Outsider – book review, 2010, Andrew Adonis
David Laws 22 Days in May: The Birth of the Lib Dem-Conservative Coalition – book review, 2010, Andrew Adonis
Chris Bowers Nick Clegg: the Biography – book review, 2011, Andrew Adonis

References

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"Profile: Andrew Adonis". BBC News. 9 May 2005. Retrieved 22 April 2007.
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"Implementing the London Challenge" (PDF). Institute for Government. Joseph Rowntree Foundation. Retrieved 5 July 2015.
Academies and maintained schools: what do we know?, Fullfact.org. 26 May 2017.
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Garner, Richard (19 October 2006). "Ministers in secret talks to bring back direct grant schools". The Independent. Archived from the original on 27 July 2018. Retrieved 26 July 2018.
"I put up tuition fees. It's now clear they have to be scrapped". The Guardian. 7 July 2017. Retrieved 29 December 2017.
Helm, Toby (23 May 2009). "Boris Johnson's 'near-death experience' with lorry caught on camera". The Guardian. London. Retrieved 26 February 2010.
Lord Adonis joins board of HS2 project, The Guardian, 16 July 2015.
Watts, Robert (16 May 2010). "Adonis devised original coalition plan". The Times. London.
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"Armitt Review" (PDF). Retrieved 27 January 2023.
Institute For Government Appoints Rt Hon Peter Riddell As Director. instituteforgovernment.org.uk. 17 November 2011
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Wigmore, Tim (30 April 2015). "Andrew Adonis: "The tale of two cities is the reality of London"". New Statesman. London. Retrieved 6 May 2016.
Murphy, Joe (19 February 2015). "I won't run for mayor – Dame Tessa Jowell is the best candidate, says Lord Adonis". London Evening Standard. London. Retrieved 6 May 2016.
"Adonis quits role with Brexit attack". BBC. 29 December 2017.
"Lord Adonis quits government role in stinging letter". BBC News. 29 December 2017. Retrieved 29 December 2017.
Staff writer (15 April 2018). "Brexit: 'People's Vote' campaign group launched". BBC News. Retrieved 17 April 2018.
Foster, Matt (19 April 2019). "Anti-Brexit peer Lord Adonis among candidates as Labour unveils MEP hopefuls". Politicshome.com. Retrieved 21 April 2019.
"Participants". bilderbergmeetings.org. Retrieved 30 May 2019.
Whiteman, Paul (1 May 2020). "Mother: Keyboard commentators should think before they type". National Association of Head Teachers. Retrieved 18 May 2020.
Adonis, Andrew (14 May 2021). "Time for Blair" (Tweet). Retrieved 31 August 2021 – via Twitter.
Glover, Julian (8 May 2019). "Andrew Adonis: We must spell it out now, Labour is a Remain party". Evening Standard. London. Retrieved 8 May 2019.
Butterworth, Benjamin (23 October 2019). "Lord Adonis opens up about 'difficult' decision to come out as gay". The i. Retrieved 8 August 2022.

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Preceded byStephen Timms	Minister of State for Education 2005–2008	Succeeded byJim Knight
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