Nia Griffith
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Nia Griffith MP |
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| Shadow Secretary of State for Defence | |
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Assumed office 6 October 2016 |
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| Leader | Jeremy Corbyn |
| Shadowing | Sir Michael Fallon |
| Preceded by | Clive Lewis |
| Shadow Secretary of State for Wales | |
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In office 13 September 2015 – 27 June 2016 |
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| Leader | Jeremy Corbyn |
| Shadowing |
Stephen Crabb Alun Cairns |
| Preceded by | Owen Smith |
| Succeeded by | Paul Flynn |
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Member of Parliament for Llanelli |
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Assumed office 5 May 2005 |
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| Preceded by | Denzil Davies |
| Majority | 7,095 (18.4%) |
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Nia Rhiannon Griffith 4 December 1956 Dublin, Ireland |
| Political party | Labour |
| Alma mater |
Somerville College, Oxford Bangor University |
| Website | Official website |
Nia Rhiannon Griffith (born 4 December 1956) is a Welsh Labour politician, who has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Llanelli since 2005.
She previously held the position of Shadow Secretary of State for Wales, having been appointed to the post by Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn on 13 September 2015 and having resigned on 27 June 2016. On 6 October 2016, Corbyn appointed Griffith as Shadow Secretary of State for Defence, replacing Clive Lewis.
Griffith was born in Dublin, Republic of Ireland on 4 December 1956. Her family comes from mining villages near Neath, in South Wales. Her father was Professor T. Gwynfor Griffith; her mother was Dr. Rhiannon Howell.
She was educated at Newland High School for Girls (now called Newland School for Girls) in Hull and Somerville College, Oxford where she graduated with a first class degree in modern languages in 1979. After Oxford, she trained to be a teacher (PGCE) at the University of Wales, Bangor.
Griffith became a teacher at Queen Elizabeth Cambria School in Carmarthen then Gowerton Comprehensive School in Swansea. She was a member of the NUT. Prior to entering Parliament, she was an education adviser and an Estyn Schools Inspector (the Welsh equivalent of Ofsted) from 1992. Immediately before becoming an MP she was Head of Languages at Morriston Comprehensive School, Swansea. She speaks five languages: English, Welsh, Italian, French and Spanish and has written a book on language teaching.
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