} Tom Middlehurst (born 25 June 1936,

Ormskirk Ormskirk is a market town in the West Lancashire district of Lancashire, England, north of Liverpool, northwest of St Helens, southeast of Southport and southwest of Preston. Ormskirk is known for its gingerbread. Geography and administr ...

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) is a Welsh Labour Party politician and former member of the

National Assembly of Wales The Senedd (; ), officially known as the Welsh Parliament in English and () in Welsh, is the devolved, unicameral legislature of Wales. A democratically elected body, it makes laws for Wales, agrees certain taxes and scrutinises the Welsh Gove ...

for the Alyn and Deeside and a former Minister for Post-16 Education and Training. Middlehust is also a former councillor having served on Alyn and Deeside District Council between 1986–95 and then on

Flintshire County Council Flintshire County Council is the unitary local authority for the county of Flintshire, one of the principal areas of Wales. It is based at County Hall in Mold. Elections take place every five years. The last election was on 5 May 2022. Histor ...

where he served as leader between 1995 and 1999. Elected in the inaugural Assembly Elections on 1999, Middlehurst a well respected Council Leader was appointed by Alun Michael to his first government. The government he was part of was operating as a minority government and plans were being drawn up to form a coalition between Labour and the Liberal Democrats. Middlehurst resigned from the government on 9 October claiming he could not "contemplate sitting down at the Cabinet table with the Liberal Democrats". He retired from the Assembly in 2003.

References

Profile on BBC Website September 1999

External links

Welsh Labour Party Website
Living people Councillors in Wales Wales AMs 1999–2003 Welsh Labour members of the Senedd Members of the Welsh Assembly Government Alumni of Liverpool John Moores University 1936 births People from Ormskirk {{Wales-AM-stub