Mark Williams (politician)
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Mark Williams MP |
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| Leader of the Welsh Liberal Democrats | |
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Assumed office 8 May 2016 |
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| Preceded by | Kirsty Williams |
| Liberal Democrat Wales Spokesman | |
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Assumed office 29 July 2015 |
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| Leader | Tim Farron |
| Preceded by | Baroness Randerson |
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Member of Parliament for Ceredigion |
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Assumed office 5 May 2005 |
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| Preceded by | Simon Thomas |
| Majority | 3,067 (8.2%) |
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24 March 1966 Hertfordshire, England |
| Political party | Liberal Democrats |
| Alma mater |
Aberystwyth University Plymouth University |
| Religion | Anglicanism |
| Website | markwilliams |
Mark Fraser Williams (born 24 March 1966) is a British Welsh Liberal Democrat politician and the Member of Parliament (MP) for the Ceredigion constituency, a seat he gained from Plaid Cymru in 2005. He sits on the Welsh Affairs Select Committee, and in 2006 he became a Shadow Minister for Wales under Menzies Campbell.
Mark Williams is a graduate of the University of Wales, Aberystwyth and the University of Plymouth, and was Deputy Headteacher of a school in Llangorse near Brecon before becoming an MP.
Mark Williams was born in Hertfordshire on 24 March 1966. His mother worked as a classroom assistant, and his father ran a printing business. He has two older sisters. He attended the local village primary school and then Richard Hale Secondary School, Hertford, from where he moved on to the University of Wales, Aberystwyth in 1984 to study politics. It was at school during the days of the SDP-Liberal Alliance that he become involved in Liberal politics, later saying:
Within a week of arriving in Aberystwyth, Williams became secretary of the student group and had met local Liberal MP Geraint Howells. After graduating, he became a part-time researcher to the Liberal Peers in the House of Lords, but was determined to stay in Ceredigion and spent half the week and all Parliamentary holidays as assistant to Geraint Howells in Ceredigion until Howells lost Ceredigion in the 1992 General Election.
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