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Revision as of 10:09, 6 November 2018
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Fiona Millar | |
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| Born | 2 January 1958 |
| Nationality | British |
| Alma mater | University College London |
| Occupation | Journalist |
| Partner | Alastair Campbell |
| Children | 3 |
Fiona Millar (born 2 January 1958) is a British journalist and campaigner on education and parenting issues. She is a former adviser to Cherie Blair. She contributes to The Guardian and the Local Schools Network website.
Early life
She attended Camden School for Girls, then a selective grammar school, on Sandall Road in Kentish Town, north London. She would later become a critic of grammar schools. She studied economics and economic history at University College London, and joined the Mirror Group's graduate training scheme in 1980.
Career
She began in journalism as a trainee on the Mirror Group Graduate Training Scheme in the West Country, later moving to the Daily Express, where she worked as a news reporter and lobby correspondent and was a colleague of Peter Hitchens. She was a freelance journalist between 1988 and 1995 contributing to the Daily Express, the Sunday Mirror and The House Magazine, Parliament's in house publication. In 1993 she co authored with Glenys Kinnock 'By Faith and Daring, Interviews with remarkable women' to celebrate the tenth anniversary of the Virago Press. She worked in the Office of the Leader of the Opposition from 1995- 1997 as an adviser to Cherie Blair from 1995 to 2003, working as a Special Adviser to the Prime Minister Tony Blair between 1997 and 2003 as head of Mrs Blair’s office and Director of Events and Visits at Downing Street. In 2005, along with Melissa Benn, she co-wrote a pamphlet A Comprehensive Future: Quality and Equality for all our children and is active in the campaign against the Trust Schools white paper, appearing alongside such Labour Party figures as Neil Kinnock and Estelle Morris at campaign meetings.[1][2]
She is vice-chair of Comprehensive Future, an organisation that promotes the perceived advantages of comprehensive schools in the UK. Her children attend state schools in the Camden LEA, and she is a governor of the William Ellis boys' comprehensive school and a governor of Parliament Hill School. Millar's articles have appeared regularly in the education supplement of The Guardian newspaper since 2003. She was Chair of Trustees of the Family and Parenting Institute until 2010 and now chairs the National Youth Arts Trust.
Millar received the Fred and Anne Jarvis Award from the National Union of Teachers in 2009, or her campaigning for good quality local comprehensive schools as against academies.[3] That same year she wrote The Secret World of the Working Mother, a book about finding the balance between working and being a mother.
In 2010, she helped form the Local Schools Network, a pro-state schools pressure group.
Personal life
Millar's brother is prominent QC Gavin Millar. Her partner is Alastair Campbell, Tony Blair's former Director of Communications. They have two sons (born October 1987 and July 1989) and a daughter (born April 1994). They live in Gospel Oak. She is a patron of Humanists UK.[4]
Books
- Millar, Fiona (March 2009). The Secret World of the Working Mother. Vermilion. ISBN 9780091924232.
- Kinnock, Glenys (November 2018). By Faith and Daring: Interviews with Remarkable Women. Virago. ISBN 1853816329.
- Millar, Fiona (November 2018). The Best for My Child. Did the schools market deliver?. John Catt Educational. ISBN 9781911382645.
External links
- Guardian profile
- Fiona Millar on Twitter
- Local Schools Network
Video clips
References
- ^ Kinnock, Glenys. Kinnock, Glenys and Millar, Fiona By Faith and Daring. Interviews with remarkable women (1 ed.). Virago. ISBN ISBN 1 85381 632 9.
{{cite book}}:|access-date=requires|url=(help); Check|isbn=value: invalid character (help) - ^ "Fiona Millar". theguardian.com. The Guardian. Retrieved 6 November 2018.
- ^ "Dave Brinson: Executive Report". Dave Brinson. 10 April 2009. Retrieved 19 November 2012.
- ^ "Fiona Millar". British Humanist Association. Retrieved 2 November 2016.