Ron Davies (Welsh politician)

Ron Davies ( born August 6 1946 in Spend, Caerphilly, Wales ) is a British Labour Party politician who represented the constituency of Caerphilly in the House of Commons and at times was Minister for Wales.

Life

Study, local politicians and the House deputy

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

His political career began in 1969 in local politics when he was elected a member of the municipal council of his birthplace making. In 1970 he was chairman of this council, and thus at the age of 24 the youngest chairman of a local council in Britain. After the municipal reorganization in 1974 he became Chairman of the Municipal Council of the Rhymney Valley and was 1974-1983 Consultant for Training at the Board of Education of Mid Glamorgan.

In the general election of 9 June 1983 Davies was first elected as a Labour candidate for member of the House of Commons and was part of this until June 7, 2001. In October 1992, he was appointed by then- chairman of the Labour Party, John Smith in His shadow cabinet, in which he was " Shadow Minister " for Wales.

Minister of Wales

After the election of the Labour Party in the general election of 1 May 1997 Davies was Prime Minister Tony Blair to the Minister for Wales ( Secretary of State for Wales) appointed to the first cabinet.

As one of the first official acts was to pay an indemnity for the victims of the mining disaster in Aberfan in October 1966., The amount of 150,000 pounds sterling was not used by a previous Labour government for the restoration of the land and compensate the victims. However, the sum had thirty years after the disaster nurmehr symbolic value and was well below the actual value in 1966. In July 1997, he wrote a white paper in preparation for the forthcoming Welsh devolution referendum, which led to the Government of Wales Act, which has a partial autonomy of Wales stipulated under the creation of a Welsh Parliament, the National Assembly for Wales.

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

To protest supported by the Labour government of Tony Blair Iraq war he joined in 2004 from the Labour Party and became a member of the newly formed regional party Forward Wales ( Cymru Ymlaen ) at. For this he was a candidate in the European elections in June 2004 unsuccessfully for the European Parliament and later became a member of Plaid Cymru, another party in Wales.