Nick Thomas-Symonds
Nick Thomas-Symonds (born 1980 in Griffithstown, Torfaen is) a British politician of the Labor Party , Barrister and author.
Life
Nick Thomas-Symonds grew up in Blaenavon and attended school there and in Pontypool . He studied political science, philosophy and economics from 1998 to 2001 at St Edmund Hall , Oxford (MA). He became a tutor and remained associated with the college and other institutes of Oxford University as a lecturer in politics . He writes political articles for magazines and the daily press and published biographies on the Labor politicians Clement Attlee and Aneurin Bevan .
He completed a Bar Vocational Course at Cardiff University , became a barrister at Lincoln's Inn in 2004 and works as a door tenant in Gwent . He is a member of the Chancery Bar Association.
Thomas-Symonds was elected to replace Paul Murphy in the House of Commons in the 2015 British general election in the Welsh constituency of Torfaen . The Labor Group elected him to the shadow cabinet in September 2015 . He resigned from this position in June 2016.
Fonts
- Attlee: A Life in Politics . London: IB Tauris, 2010 ISBN 978-1845117795
- Nye: The Political Life of Anerin Bevan . London: IB Tauris, 2014 ISBN 978-1780762098
- The Battle of Grosmont, 1405: A Reinterpretation , in: Gwent Local History, 2004
- Michael Foot's Handling of the Militant Tendency: A Reinterpretation , in: Contemporary British History, 2005
- Oratory, Rhetoric and Politics: Neil Kinnock's Thousand Generations Speech of 1987 , in: Llafur: Journal of the Welsh People's History Society, 2006
- The Hard Sell: When does a new car actually belong to the purchaser? , in: Solicitors Journal, 2010
- with Raymond Youngs: The Problem of the 'Lame Duck' Government: A Critique of the Fixed-term Parliaments Act , in: Parliamentary Affairs , 2013
Web links
- Literature by and about Nick Thomas-Symonds in the WorldCat bibliographic database
- Nicklaus Thomas-Symonds , short biography at St Edmund Hall
Individual evidence
- ↑ Nick Thomas-Symonds , at civitaslaw
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Thomas-Symonds, Nick |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Thomas-Symonds, Nicklaus |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British politician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1980 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Griffithstown, Torfaen |