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SUMMARY:Personal Principles and the Political Game - Baroness Sayeeda Wars
 i\, House of Lords
DTSTART:20160115T173000Z
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CONTACT:Janet Gibson
DESCRIPTION:Abstract\n\nPolitics was described by Aristotle as "of\, for\,
  or relating to citizens".\n\n \n\nIn more modern terms the definition of 
 politics is “the activities associated with the governance of a country 
 or other area\, especially the debate or conflict among individuals or par
 ties having or hoping to achieve power”.\n\nBut is the practice of polit
 ics really about providing for the citizen\, as envisaged in the Greek mea
 ning\, or\, has the game of politics become an end in itself?\n\nAnd\, in 
 the game of politics\, is winning the ultimate aim\, even if this requires
  sacrifice of principles?\n\nBiography\n\nBaroness Sayeeda Warsi is a lawy
 er\, a businesswoman\, a campaigner and a cabinet minister\, Sayeeda Warsi
  has had many roles\, but she is best known for being the first Muslim to 
 serve in a British cabinet and in 2010 became the first Asian to chair a p
 olitical party.\n\nSayeeda is consistently named by the Royal Strategic St
 udies Centre as 1 of 500 of the most influential Muslims in the world and 
 The Equality and Human Rights Council named her as the most powerful Musli
 m woman in Britain.\n\nDescribed by the Telegraph as “Northern\, working
 -class and Muslim\, Sayeeda Warsi has evolved a language of diplomacy that
  is all her own. She takes people with her\, rather than dictates. She rep
 resents modern multicultural Britain in all its complexity\, and she’s a
  Conservative. She is on her way to inventing a new type of politics for t
 he looming age of authenticity”. \n\nIn 2014 she resigned her position i
 n Government\, citing the Government’s morally indefensible policy on Ga
 za.\n\nHer tweet announcing her resignation was re-tweeted more than 35\,0
 00 times and was used by 2015 Political Awards as the most influential twe
 et of 2015.\n\nSayeeda is currently an Advisor to Georgetown University\, 
 Visiting Professor at St Mary’s University and recently appointed as Pro
  Vice Chancellor at the University of Bolton.\n
LOCATION:LMH\, Lady Mitchell Hall
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