Don Touhig
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The Right Honourable The Lord Touhig PC KSS |
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| Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Chancellor of the Exchequer | |
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In office 1997–1999 |
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| Prime Minister | Tony Blair |
| Chancellor | Gordon Brown |
| Preceded by | Peter Butler |
| Succeeded by | John Healey |
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Member of Parliament for Islwyn |
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In office 17 February 1995 – 12 April 2010 |
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| Preceded by | Neil Kinnock |
| Succeeded by | Chris Evans |
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5 December 1947 Abersychan, Monmouthshire, Wales |
| Nationality | Welsh |
| Political party | Labour Co-operative |
| Spouse(s) | Jennifer Hughes |
| Religion | Roman Catholic |
| Website | http://www.dontouhig.org.uk/ |
James Donnelly Touhig, Baron Touhig,PC, KSS (born 5 December 1947) is a British Labour Co-operative politician from Wales. He was the Member of Parliament for Islwyn from 1995 until his retirement in 2010.
He went to St Francis RC School in Abersychan near Pontypool, then the Mid Gwent College (now Coleg Gwent) in Pontypool. Before entering parliament, he had been a journalist from 1968–76. From 1976–90, he was the Editor of the Free Press of Monmouthshire (Monmouth Free Press). From 1988–92, he was the general manager and Editor-in-Chief of the Free Press Group of newspapers. He was the general manager (business development) of the Bailey Group from 1992–3, then of Bailey Print from 1993–5. He served on Gwent County Council from 1973–95. He joined the TGWU in 1962 and the Labour Party in 1966.
He contested the Richmond and Barnes seat in the 1992 general election. He was elected to Parliament in a by-election on 16 February 1995, to replace Neil Kinnock (party leader from 1983 to 1992), who had resigned. From 1996–7, he was on the Welsh Affairs Select Committee. He served as parliamentary private secretary to Gordon Brown and as a whip before becoming a minister. He had to resign in 1999 when he confessed to receiving a leaked Social Security Select Committee report on Child benefit. He was later suspended for three days from the Commons. He was succeeded by John Healey. He was a junior minister at the Ministry of Defence, with special responsibility for veterans, but left government in the May 2006 reshuffle. He was made a Member of the Privy Council on 19 July 2006.
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