Adam Price
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| Member of the Welsh Assembly for Carmenthen East and Dinefwr |
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Assumed office 6 May 2016 |
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| Preceded by | Rhodri Glyn Thomas |
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Member of Parliament for Carmarthen East and Dinefwr |
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In office 9 June 2001 – 12 April 2010 |
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| Preceded by | Alan Wynne Williams |
| Succeeded by | Jonathan Edwards |
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23 September 1968 Carmarthen, Carmarthenshire, Wales |
| Nationality | Welsh |
| Political party | Plaid Cymru |
| Alma mater | Cardiff University |
Adam Price (born 23 September 1968) is a politician in Wales, and the current AM for Carmarthen East and Dinefwr as well as the former Plaid Cymru Member of Parliament for Carmarthen East and Dinefwr. He was elected to Parliament in the 2001 general election and re-elected in 2005 but stood down at the 2010 election. He belongs to Plaid's left-wing and has said of himself "I was a socialist before I was a nationalist."
The son of a miner, Price was born in Carmarthen and went to Ysgol Dyffryn Aman in Ammanford, Carmarthenshire. He studied at Cardiff University, gaining a BA in European Community Studies in 1991. In 1991–3 he was a research associate at the Cardiff University's department of City and Regional Planning. In 1993–8, he worked for Menter a Busnes, being an executive director from 1996–8. He also studied at Saarland University in Saarbrücken in Germany. From 1998, he was the managing director of the Newidiem-Economic Development Consultancy (part of Menter a Business). Price is openly gay.
Price stood in 1992 general election for the seat of Gower.
Controversy erupted in 2002 as Price exposed the link between UK prime minister Tony Blair and steel magnate Lakshmi Mittal in the Mittal Affair, also known as 'Garbagegate' or Cash for Influence. Mittal's LNM steel company, registered in the Dutch Antilles and maintaining less than 1% of its 100,000 plus workforce in the UK, sought Blair's aid in its bid to purchase Romania's state steel industry. The letter from Blair to the Romanian government, a copy of which Price was able to obtain, hinted that the privatisation of the firm and sale to Mittal might help smooth the way for Romania's entry into the European Union.
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