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@PaulOnBooks Ester McVey was a co-presenter on Children’s BBC TV and has subsequently presented and produced, BBC1’s science entertainment series How Do They Do That?, 5’s Company, The Heaven and Earth Show, Shopping City, BBC2’s youth current affairs programme Reportage, and Channel 4's

@PaulOnBooks legal series Nothing But The Truth with Ann Widdecombe. Ester McVey debated @the Oxford Union & took part in Eve Ensler’s The Vagina Monologues @the Empire Theatre, Liverpool.[citation needed].
Ester McVey returned to Liverpool and set up her own business, Making It (UK) Ltd ....

@PaulOnBooks @the Making It (UK) Ltd founded by Ester McVey provides training for small & medium enterprises, as well as providing office space for new startup businesses which led to her [ Ester McVey] founding “Winning Women”, supported by funding from the North West Regional Development Agency

@PaulOnBooks @the David Cameron in October 2013 appointed Ester McVey as Minister of State for Employment in the Department for Work and Pensions.
In December 2013, Ester was formally reprimanded for using House of Commons notepaper & postage to electioneer for the Conservative Party....

@PaulOnBooks @the After putting £300, of what she had appropriated for her own PoliticalParty motives, back into the publics' purse Ester McVey was sworn into the #PrivyCouncil on 27 February 2014. If it was U or me we would have @least been sacked for pilfering if not charged with Benefits Fraud

@PaulOnBooks @the @least After losing her seat, Ester McVey took up the post of chair of the British Transport Police Authority from November 2015, on a four-year contract with a three months’ notice requirement.
However, 10 days after it was announced that a 2017 general election would take place McVey

@PaulOnBooks @the @least Ester McVey resigned the post having been paid between £86,000 and £89,000 in 15 months. Between the elections she also had part-time jobs as a special adviser to two investment firms and a fellowship at the University of Hull.
In April 2017, McVey was selected to succeed Gideon

@PaulOnBooks @the @least Ester McVey was selected to succeed George Osborne as the Conservative candidate for the June 2017 general election in the safe seat of Tatton.
In a reshuffle prompted by Michael Fallon’s resignation as Secretary of State for Defence in the wake of sexual assault allegations....

@PaulOnBooks @the @least and in which former Chief Whip Gavin Williamson replaced Fallon and his deputy Julian Smith replaced Williamson, Ester McVey was appointed Deputy Chief Government Whip.
On 8 January 2018, Ester McVey was appointed as Secretary of State for Work and Pensions.
Following her .....

@PaulOnBooks @the @least Following her appointment, The Daily Telegraph accused supporters of Jeremy Corbyn of a “renewed ‘#vicious #hate #campaign’ against Ester McVey.
#PMMay has a #category called creating an #Hostile #Environments but that’s reserved for No.10’s nice Conservative Party’s Policies.

@PaulOnBooks @the @least Ester McVey lives in West Kirby.
When in London, she formerly shared a flat in Pimlico with Conservative colleague, Philip Davies with whom she has had a “long time on-and-off romantic interest"
Ester a friend of Kate McCann is a #founding #trustee of The Madeleine McCann Fund.