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	Paul Boateng - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Paul Boateng preaching at a Christian Aid service in Wesley Memorial (Methodist) Church, Oxford, 2005, a few days before taking up the post as High Commissioner to South Africa.
		The Right Honourable Paul Yaw Boateng (born June 14, 1951), is a British Labour Party politician and became the UK's first fl Cabinet minister in May 2002 when we was appointed as Chief Secretary to the Treasury.
		Boateng was born in Hackney, London of mixed Ghanaian and Scottish heritage, but lived in Ghana, where his father became a cabinet minister under Kwame Nkrumah, until the 1966 coup that ousted Nkrumah.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Paul_Boateng (532 words)

	Downing Street Says...: Paul Boateng
		Boateng had made it clear that he did not want to be reappointed, and that he saw with the Commission for Africa report completion, a role for himself in trying to take forward the goals of the Africa Commission report.
		Asked why Paul Boateng was the right person, the PMOS replied he had a lot of experience in Africa, and as part of the Africa Commission, he was up to speed in terms of not only the thinking of African leaders, but also the goals that were now set for the international community to deliver.
		Asked if Paul Boateng had to resign from his current seat without knowing whether he would be going to a new job, or not, the PMOS replied that was the decision Mr.
	www.downingstreetsays.org /archives/001529.html (505 words)

	Paul Boateng, MP (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Paul Boateng, MP Paul Boateng, MP The current Labour MP for Brent South, Paul Boateng won the elections with an overwhelming seventy-three percent of the vote.
		Paul Boateng was appointed as a cabinet minister on 29 May 2002 and he is the first Black Cabinet minister - 110 years after the first Black MP was elected.
		Paul Boateng now serves as the Chief Secretary to the Treasury in charge of Government spending levels.
	www.obv.org.uk /blackpolitician/mp-boateng.html (173 words)

	Guardian Unlimited Politics \| Special Reports \| Boateng to step down at election
		Mr Boateng, currently chief secretary to the Treasury, was a former leftwing protege of Ken Livingstone at the now defunct Greater London Council before entering parliament in 1987 and reaching the cabinet three years ago - the first fl politician to do so.
		Paul Boateng was appointed chief secretary to the Treasury - a full Cabinet position - in May 2002, having previously served as a minister in the Treasury and the Home Office.
		Mr Boateng was born in Hackney, and studied at Bristol University.
	politics.guardian.co.uk /labour/story/0,9061,1437255,00.html (670 words)

	SocietyGuardian.co.uk \| Society \| Paul Boateng index
		A woman who has been a nurse for 30 years tells Mr Boateng that her hospital is desperately under-staffed.
		A child asks when Mr Boateng's birthday is and discovers he will be 50 in the week after the election.
		Although Mr Boateng is at pains to say it is not his job to represent fl people in parliament, he enjoys a lot of support from the ethnic community in his South Brent constituency.
	society.guardian.co.uk /gall/0,9730,501352,00.html (145 words)

	Guardian Unlimited Politics \| Special Reports \| Profile: Paul Boateng
		Paul Boateng, the new chief secretary to the Treasury, becomes the first fl member of the cabinet (another satisfying first for the prime minister who first gave cabinet posts to openly gay and disabled ministers) but Mr Boateng's political colours are true New Labour rosé.
		A former acolyte of Red Ken and the radical left days of the Greater London Council in the early 1980s, Mr Boateng made his name with attacks on racist policing while he was chair of the GLC police committee - and before that as a campaigning solicitor, his initial career.
		Mr Boateng, married with two sons and four daughters by this time, loyally followed that promotion with backing for the new leader's reform of Clause 4, and, ahead of either Tony Blair or Harriet Harman, attracted press flack for sending one of his sons to a £4,500-a-year private school.
	politics.guardian.co.uk /labour/story/0,9061,724071,00.html (549 words)

	Biography - Rt Hon Paul Boateng - (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Between 1979-1987 Paul was a solicitor and then a partner at BM Birnberg and Co. Paul was called to the Bar in 1989 and was a practising barrister at the Eight King's Bench Walk Chambers until 1997.
		From 1981 to 1984, Paul was Governor of the
		Paul is a Methodist Lay Preacher, a member of the GMB Union and the World Development Movement.
	www.paulboateng.labour.co.uk /ViewPage.cfm?Page=9109 (697 words)

	Paul Boateng (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Paul Yaw Boateng (born June 14, 1951) is a British Labour Party politician and the UK's first fl Cabinet minister.
		After graduating from the University of Bristol he became a lawyer (originally a solicitor, though he later retrained as a barrister) specialising in civil rights cases.
		With Labour's victory, Boateng became the UK's first fl government minister, albeit in the surprisingly junior position of Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Department of Health.
	www.ukpedia.com /p/paul-boateng.html (293 words)

	100 Great Black Britons - Paul Boateng (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Hon Paul Boateng MP was appointed Chief Secretary to the Treasury on 29 May 2002.
		Born in Ghana in 1951, Boateng is himself the son of a former Ghanaian cabinet minister, and his mother is Scottish.
		Now Mr Boateng, married with five children, has won a promotion likely to be hailed a success by campaigners who want more people from ethnic minorities in high profile posts.
	www.100greatblackbritons.com /bios/paul_boateng.html (454 words)

	BBC NEWS \| UK Politics \| Black minister makes cabinet history
		Paul Boateng has continued his steady rise in government by becoming the UK's first fl cabinet minister.
		News of Mr Boateng's appointment was welcomed by the chairman of the Commission for Racial Equality, Gurbux Singh.
		Mr Boateng could hardly conceal his delight as he left Downing Street ahead of the announcement that named him in his new role.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/uk_politics/2014444.stm (595 words)

	The Hindu : U.K.'s first black Cabinet Minister
		Britain today got its first ever fl Cabinet Minister when Paul Boateng, a rising star of Labour's depleted Left-wing and known for his strong views on racism, was appointed Chief Secretary to the Treasury in a reshuffle following the dramatic resignation of the controversial Transport Secretary Stephen Byers.
		Boateng, who was Financial Secretary before his promotion, is of Ghananian descent and his appointment was regarded as politically significant in the prevailing racially-charged climate.
		Mr Boateng's "fast-track'' promotion was welcomed by anti-race activists as a success for their campaign for greater representation of ethnic groups in high-profile positions.
	www.hinduonnet.com /2002/05/30/stories/2002053001391400.htm (522 words)

	Search: spoken by Paul Boateng (TheyWorkForYou.com) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Paul Boateng: The Departments for which the Chancellor is responsible, including HM Treasury, HM Revenue and Customs and Office of National Statistics, have a target to relocate 5,050 posts out of London and the South East by 2010.
		Paul Boateng: Of the workforce relocations referred to by the Chancellor in Budget 2005, 90 jobs are going to East Kilbride and 120 to Glasgow and Dundee.
		Paul Boateng: The planned levels of reductions in total and in detail were set out in the Spending Review 2004 White Paper, and are summarised in Chapter 2, Table 2.2.
	www.theyworkforyou.com /search?pid=10052&maj=wrans (656 words)

	Boateng, Paul -- Encyclopædia Britannica (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		He was the son of Kwaku Boateng, a lawyer who served as a cabinet minister in the Ghanaian government of Kwame Nkrumah, and Eleanor Boateng.
		British politician who, with Paul Boateng and Diane Abbott, was one of the first persons of African descent to win election to the House of Commons.
		The French poet Paul Fort is usually associated with the symbolists, who sought to express emotional experience through the suggestive use of highly symbolized language.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9399775?tocId=9399775 (868 words)

	The Black Forums
		People who were there recall that Boateng came bounding onto the platform dressed as a law lord, in a wig and gown, before opening the gown to reveal his assets to an audience which, unfortunately for him, included a photographer from the News of the World.
		Boateng was born in Hackney in June 1951, but it wasn't long before he moved to West Africa where his Ghanaian father was to become a cabinet minister under Kwame Nkrumah.
		Boateng had to defeat two powerful and equally outspoken rivals, Keith Vaz and Sharon Atkin, to get the seat, but it was a battle for which he was well prepared.
	www.blacknet.co.uk /theblackforums/discus/messages/23/4802.html (2442 words)

	Indiainfo.com -> NRI -> Cherie Blair, UK ministers remember Ambika Paul
		Lord Paul made special mention to the presence of Michael Foot who will be turning 90 on July 23 and Cherie Blair, a "tremendous personality" in her own right.
		Speaking on the occasion, Paul Boateng described the occasion as a "landmark event" in everyone's diary as "This is the day we spend with our loved ones".
		Lord Paul says his only connection to the zoo was in the sixties when Ambika was ill and he would take her there to enjoy the animals.
	news.indiainfo.com /2003/07/14/14lordpaul.html (490 words)

	K B C (Kenya Broadcasting Corporation)
		Paul Boateng, chief secretary to the Treasury, is to step down as a Labour MP at the forthcoming general election.
		Mr Boateng, 53, is to become the UK's high commissioner to South Africa.
		Mr Boateng said: "I am honoured to be asked to take on this role, especially as it comes at such an integral time for our relationship with South Africa and the African continent.
	www.kbc.co.ke /story.asp?ID=29073 (306 words)

	Edinburgh Evening News - UK - Boateng to step down as MP for top South Africa job (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		BRITAIN’S first fl Cabinet minister Paul Boateng is to step down as an MP at the General Election, it emerged today.
		Mr Boateng said he had welcomed the chance to be part of Labour’s economic team.
		Prime Minister Tony Blair’s spokesman said: "Mr Boateng made it clear that he didn’t want to be re-appointed and that he saw, with the completion of the Africa Commission Report, a role for himself in trying to take forward the goals of the report.
	edinburghnews.scotsman.com /uk.cfm?id=278872005 (377 words)

	Regional News of Wednesday, 28 May 2003
		Kyebi (Eastern Region) – the Chiefs and people of Akyem Abuakwa Traditional Area who gathered at the Ofori Panin Fie at Kyebi to welcome Ghanaian-born Paul Boateng, MP and Chief Secretary of the British Treasury, return ed home disappointed, when the event was put off at the last hour.
		Sources close to the Palace explained that Paul Boateng had been flown out of Ghana, suffering from food poisoning.
		Paul Boateng was expected to fly back to South Africa on Tuesday as part of his mission to Africa.
	www.ghanaweb.com /GhanaHomePage/regional/artikel.php?ID=37050 (203 words)

	Paul Boateng -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		In 1992 he became shadow minister for the (The highest officer of the Crown who is head of the judiciary and who presides in the House of Lords) Lord Chancellor's department, a post he held until the (Click link for more info and facts about 1997 general election) 1997 general election.
		With Labour's victory, Boateng became the UK's first fl government minister, as (Click link for more info and facts about Parliamentary Under Secretary of State) Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the (Click link for more info and facts about Department of Health (UK)) Department of Health (UK).
		In 1998 he became a minister at the ((usually plural) the office that serves as the administrative center of an enterprise) Home Office.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/P/Pa/Paul_Boateng.htm (604 words)

	New Statesman: Will Paul Boateng's loyalty be stretched by Labour's plans for asylum-seekers? - Brief Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		But for me, the big day was the previous Wednesday, when Paul Boateng became the first fl Briton to enter the cabinet.
		Boateng's father was a cabinet minister in Ghana, in its early democratic flush, so I think parliamentarianism is in his blood.
		So the young Boateng, although born in England, returned with his sister and mother as a kind of asylum-seeker.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0FQP/is_4591_131/ai_88992466 (478 words)

	Paul Boateng addresses Cathedral congregation (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Paul Boateng, MP, was in North Yorkshire on Saturday 14th October to preach at Ripon Cathedral's annual St Wilfrid's Day Eucharist, celebrating the Cathedral's seventh century founder.
		Mr Boateng had earlier joined with the Bishop of Ripon and Leeds, Rt Revd John Packer, in taking part in the St Wilfrid's Procession through the city of Ripon, and he compared it with a procession he had taken part in 11 years earlier through the South African town of George, in the Eastern Cape.
		That procession, organised by a lone white woman, the wife of the local head teacher to demonstrate and pray for the ending of apartheid, drew, he said, "not looks of incomprehension or amusement, or boredom or even interest but … looks of hatred and vilification".
	members.aol.com /jhgcarter/press307.htm (355 words)

	Rt Hon Paul Boateng MP at Ripon Cathedral (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Paul Boateng, MP, is to visit North Yorkshire next Saturday, October 14th, to preach at Ripon Cathedral's annual St Wilfrid's Day Eucharist.
		The Deputy Home Secretary, who is a Methodist Lay Preacher, will address a large gathering of civic and church leaders from across the Diocese of Ripon and Leeds, taking part in the annual St Wilfrid's Festival Procession and Eucharist to celebrate Ripon Cathedral's seventh century founder.
		Boateng has accepted the invitation to speak at Saturday's service.
	members.aol.com /jhgcarter/press304.htm (421 words)

	Guardian Unlimited Politics \| Aristotle \| Paul Boateng
		In Paul Boateng's radical days, back when he was the Greater London council's scourge of the Metropolitan police and sympathetic to the "Troops Out" movement which supported British withdrawal from Northern Ireland, he was a favourite speaker at meetings of the left-wing Labour Herald.
		Paul Boateng gained recognition from Tony Blair as chief architect of Labour's 1995 policy document on the legal profession, and for steering through the family law bill.
		He also lost many of his former friends when he was wheeled out by the Labour government to help break down support for Ken Livingstone's mayoral campaign.
	politics.guardian.co.uk /profiles/story/0,9396,-485,00.html (288 words)

	Paul Boateng (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		El desvío honorable derecho Boateng de Paul (llevado de junio el 14 de 1951), es político británico del partido laborista y el ministro de gabinete negro de Reino Unido primero.
		Boateng fue llevado en Londres de la herencia ghanesa y escocesa mezclada, pero vivido en Ghana, en donde su padre hizo ministro de gabinete debajo de Kwame Nkrumah, hasta el coup 1966 que expulsó Nkrumah.
		Con la victoria del trabajo, Boateng sintió bien al ministro negro del gobierno de Reino Unido primero, como secretaria del estado inferior parlamentaria en el departamento de la salud.
	www.yotor.net /wiki/es/pa/Paul%20Boateng.htm (339 words)

	Paul Boateng - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		Paul Boateng - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		Paul Boateng (http://politics.guardian.co.uk/person/0,,-485.html) - Aristotle profile from The Guardian
		The article about Paul Boateng contains information related to Paul Boateng and External links.
	www.arikah.com /encyclopedia/Paul_Boateng (528 words)

	Welcome to the Republic of Ghana (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		A statement said Mr Boateng's visit was part of a regional tour, including Mali and Nigeria, during which he would be highlighting international commitment to Africa as a key priority for the UK Presidency of the EU and the G7/G8.
		Ghana is one of 19 countries to benefit from the multilateral debt initiative, which focus on an excess of 65 million pounds of direct aid provided to Ghana by the UK last year.
		This will be Mr Boateng's second visit to Ghana since he became the Chief Secretary to the Treasury in 2002.
	www.ghana.gov.gh /visiting/article.php?id=0000008503 (399 words)

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