Leighton Andrews

Leighton Andrews
Minister for Public Services 2014–2016
Member of the Welsh Assembly
for Rhondda
In office
1 May 2003 – 6 April 2016
Preceded byGeraint Davies
Succeeded byLeanne Wood
Majority6,739 (33.6%)
Minister for Education and Skills
In office
10 December 2009 – 25 June 2013
First MinisterCarwyn Jones
Preceded byJane Hutt
Succeeded byHuw Lewis
Personal details
Born (1957-08-11) 11 August 1957 (age 67)
Cardiff, Wales
Political partyIndependent[1]
Other political
affiliations		Labour Party (former)
Liberal Party (former)
SpouseAnn Beynon
Children2
Alma materUniversity of Wales, Bangor, University of Sussex
OccupationProfessor, Cardiff University.
Websitewww.leightonandrews.live

Leighton Andrews (born 11 August 1957) is an academic[2] and former Welsh Labour[3] politician. He was the National Assembly for Wales member for Rhondda from 2003 until 2016. He was Minister for Children, Education & Lifelong Learning from 2009 to 2011, then Minister for Education and Skills in the Welsh Government until his resignation on 25 June 2013 after an alleged conflict between his own departmental policy and his active campaigning to save a school in his constituency.[4] In September 2014 he returned to the government as Minister for Public Services.

He left the Labour Party in 2019, attacking the party's failure to deal with anti-semitism and its attitude to Brexit under Jeremy Corbyn, but sought to rejoin in 2020, having voted Labour at the 2019 UK General Election.

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  2. ^ "Former Minister joins Cardiff University". News. Archived from the original on 21 October 2016. Retrieved 15 October 2016.
  3. ^ "Member Profile". National Assembly for Wales. Archived from the original on 4 March 2018. Retrieved 10 June 2017.
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