Don Touhig, Baron Touhig

Don Touhig (2019)

James Donnelly "Don" Touhig, Baron Touhig PC KSS (* 5. December 1947 in Abersychan , Monmouthshire , Wales ) is a British journalist and politician of the Labor Party , long the 15 year the constituency Islwyn as a deputy in the House of Commons represented and since 2010 Member of the House of Lords .

Life

Journalist, local politician and unsuccessful candidate for the lower house

Don Touhig (2006)

After attending St Francis School in Abersychan, Touhig studied journalism at Coleg Gwent in Pontypool and then worked as a journalist and editor between 1968 and 1992 .

In the mid-1970s, Touhig, who joined the Transport and General Workers' Union (TGWU) in 1962 and the Labor Party in 1966, began his political career in local politics and was a member of the Gwen County Council from 1973 to 1995, and most recently between 1992 and 1994 chairman of its finance committee.

In the general election on April 9, 1992 , Touhig, who was managing director of the printing company Bailey Print from 1992 to 1995, ran for a member of the House of Commons in the constituency of Richmond and Barnes , but ended up in third place with 5.8 percent of the vote .

Member of the House of Commons and House of Lords

On 16 February 1995, he was at a by-election ( by-election ), succeeding Neil Kinnock in the constituency Islwyn with 69.2 percent of the vote for deputies in the House of Commons and was this May long over fifteen years until 6, 2010 on. During his long membership in the House of Commons, he was a member of the Standing Committee for Europe between 1995 and 1996 and then until 1997 of the Standing Committee for Wales.

Touhig, of the campaign team of Tony Blair for the general election on 1 May 1997 belonged, after the election of the Labor Party in 1997 Parliamentary private secretary was Chancellor of the Exchequer Gordon Brown . Then he was from 1999 to 2001 Assistant to the Parliamentary managing director ( Assistant Government Whip ) and then to 2005 Parliamentary Under Secretary of State in the Ministry of Wales before he was Parliamentary between 2005 and 2006 Undersecretary of Defense and Minister for Veterans there.

After leaving the government, Touhig, who became a member of the Privy Council on July 19, 2006, was a member of the Standing Committee on Public Accounts from 2006 to 2010 and also a member of the Standing Committee on Relationships and the Committee of the House of Commons for from 2009 to 2010 independent parliamentary standards. Most recently, between 2009 and 2010, he was Chairman of the House Committee on Membership Compensation.

After Touhig left the House of Commons after the general election on May 6, 2010 , he was raised to the nobility on June 30, 2010 as a life peer with the title Baron Touhig , of Islwyn and Glansychan in the County of Gwent, and is since then member of the House of Lords . He is also the recipient of the Knight's Cross of the New Year's Eve .

Web links

• Entry on Parliament's homepage (accessed on 6 July 2012)
• Don Touhig at Hansard (English)
• Entry in They Work For You (accessed July 6, 2012)
• Profile ( Memento from May 1, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) in The Guardian (accessed on July 6, 2012)