Ron Davies

Ron davies (1998)

Ron Davies (* 6. August 1946 in Make , Caerphilly , Wales ) is a British politician of the Labor Party , of the constituency of Caerphilly in the House of Commons represented and was temporarily Minister of Wales.

Life

University degree, local politician and member of the House of Commons

After attending Bassaleg School , Davies studied geography at Portsmouth Polytechnic . After completing a teaching degree at Cardiff University , he worked as a teacher for two years and then succeeded Neil Kinnock as tutor and organizer of the Workers' Educational Association in 1970 .

He began his political career in local politics in 1969 when he was elected a member of the local council in his place of birth, making. In 1970 he became chairman of this local council and thus at the age of 24 youngest chairman of a local council in Great Britain. After the local reorganization, he became chairman of the Rhymney Valley local council in 1974 and was a continuing education consultant for the Mid Glamorgan Education Board from 1974 to 1983 .

In the general election of June 9, 1983 , Davies was the Labor Party candidate for the first time as a member of the House of Commons and was a member until June 7, 2001. In October 1992 he was appointed by the Labor Party leader at the time, John Smith , to its shadow cabinet , where he was "shadow minister" for Wales.

Minister for Wales

After the Labor Party's victory in the general election on May 1, 1997 , Davies was appointed Secretary of State for Wales by Prime Minister Tony Blair in his first cabinet.

One of its first acts was the payment of compensation to the victims of the Aberfan mine disaster in October 1966. The £ 150,000 was used by a previous Labor government to rehabilitate the site and not to compensate the victims. However, thirty years after the disaster, the sum had only symbolic value and was far below the actual value in 1966. In July 1997, he wrote a white paper in preparation for the upcoming Welsh devolution referendum , which led to the Government of Wales Act , which gave partial autonomy of Wales, creating a Welsh Parliament that established the National Assembly for Wales .

In October 1998 he was replaced as Minister by Alun Michael . He himself was elected a member of the National Assembly for Wales in the constituency of Caerphilly in 1999 and was a member of this until 2003.

In protest against the Iraq war supported by the Labor government Tony Blair , he resigned from the Labor Party in 2004 and became a member of the newly formed regional party Forward Wales (Cymru Ymlaen). For this he ran unsuccessfully for the European Parliament in the European elections in June 2004 and later became a member of Plaid Cymru , another party in Wales.

Web links

• Ron Davies at Hansard (English)
• Entry in They Work For You