The Lord Murphy of Torfaen | |
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 Official portrait, 2019 | |
| Secretary of State for Wales | |
| In office 24 January 2008 – 5 June 2009 | |
| Prime Minister | Gordon Brown |
| Preceded by | Peter Hain |
| Succeeded by | Peter Hain |
| In office 28 July 1999 – 24 October 2002 | |
| Prime Minister | Tony Blair |
| Preceded by | Alun Michael |
| Succeeded by | Peter Hain |
| Chair of the Intelligence and Security Committee | |
| In office 6 May 2005 – 24 January 2008 | |
| Preceded by | Ann Taylor |
| Succeeded by | Margaret Beckett |
| Secretary of State for Northern Ireland | |
| In office 24 October 2002 – 6 May 2005 | |
| Prime Minister | Tony Blair |
| Preceded by | John Reid |
| Succeeded by | Peter Hain |
| First Minister of Northern Ireland | |
| In office 24 October 2002 – 6 May 2005 | |
| Monarch | Elizabeth II |
| Prime Minister | Tony Blair |
| Preceded by | John Reid |
| Succeeded by | Peter Hain |
| Member of the House of Lords Lord Temporal | |
| Assumed office 20 October 2015 Life Peerage | |
| Member of Parliament for Torfaen | |
| In office 11 June 1987 – 30 March 2015 | |
| Preceded by | Leo Abse |
| Succeeded by | Nick Thomas-Symonds |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 25 November 1948 Usk, Monmouthshire, Wales |
| Political party | Labour |
| Alma mater | Oriel College, Oxford |
| Website | Constituency website |
Paul Peter Murphy, Baron Murphy of Torfaen, KCMCO, KSG, PC (born 25 November 1948) is a British Labour Party politician who was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Torfaen from 1987 to 2015, and served in the Cabinet from 1999 to 2005 and again from 2008 to 2009 in the roles of Northern Irish and Welsh Secretary. He was nominated for a life peerage in the 2015 Dissolution Honours.[1]
- ^ "Dissolution Peerages 2015". Government of the United Kingdom. Retrieved 27 August 2015.