Leighton Andrews

Quick Facts

Full Name	Leighton Andrews
Occupation	Politician
Date Of Birth	Aug 11, 1957(1957-08-11)
Age	67
Birthplace	Cardiff
Country	United Kingdom
Birth City	Wales
Horoscope	Leo

Leighton Andrews Biography

Leighton Andrews is one of the most popular and richest Politician who was born on August 11, 1957 in Cardiff, Wales, United Kingdom. Leighton Andrews (born 11 August 1957) is an academic and former Welsh Labour politician. Andrews is an elected National Assembly for Wales member for Rhondda from 2003 to 2016. He was minister for Children, Education & Lifelong Learning from 2009 until 2011 and then Minister of Education and Skills in the Welsh Government until his resignation on June 25, 2013, following an unproven disagreement between his departmental policy and his ongoing campaign to save a particular school in his area of residence.

He was a co-founder of the Yes for Wales campaign for the referendum in 1997. In the referendum campaign, he wrote a report together with Gareth Hughes, then of the Welsh Federation of Housing Associations (now named Community Housing Cymru) and currently of ITV Wales, arguing that savings could be found that could free up more funds for housing from the Government’s plans to eliminate Tai Cymru as part of the settlement for devolution

He has written three books, Wales Says Yes (Seren, 1999) and Ministering to Education (Parthian, 2014) and Facebook, the Media and Democracy (Routledge, 2019).

He is a published academic, whose peer-reviewed articles and chapters include The National Assembly for Wales and broadcasting policy, 1999-2003 Media, Culture & Society, Vol. 28, No. 2, 191-210 (2006); Wales and the UK’s Communications Legislation 2002–2003, Cyfrwng 2005, and Spin: from tactic to tabloid, Journal of Public Affairs, Volume 6, Issue 1, Date: February 2006, Pages: 31-45 and the chapter ‘Lobbying for a new BBC Charter’ in The Handbook of Public Affairs edited by Phil Harris and Craig Fleischer, Sage, 2006. Since his return to academia in 2016 he has continued to publish in academic journals such as Public Administration, the International Communicvations Gazette and Political Quarterly.

Other books have chapters like “New Labour, New England New England, New Labour’ included in The Blair Agenda, Ed. Mark Perryman, Lawrence and Wishart 1996, ‘Too important for us to give to Politicians In the book The Road to the National Assembly for Wales edited by J.Barry Jones. Denis Balsom, ‘The Breakdown of Tom Nairn The Breakdown of Tom Nairn’, in Gordon Brown: Bard of Britishness Edited by John Osmond, IWA, 2006 as well as in the Labour section of Welsh Politics Come of Age Responses to the Richard Commission (Paperback) edited by John Osmond, IWA, 2004.

Leighton Andrews Net Worth

Leighton Andrews is one of the richest Politician from United Kingdom. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Leighton Andrews 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Andrews has voted “Yes” during the devolution referendum in 1979. This was his first time ever voting. He was among the founding members of the Yes campaign in 1997.

Andrews has been an active Liberal in the 1980s and was his Liberal Alliance candidate for Gillingham in the 1987 General Election at the age of 29. After returning to Wales to settle in 1996, Andrews was appointed to the Board of Tai Cymru – Housing for Wales by the former Conservative Secretary of State for Wales, William Hague.

Andrews was born in Cardiff, and brought up in Barry until the age of 11, when his family moved to Dorset. He holds a BA Honours (English and History) from the University of Wales, Bangor and an MA in History from the University of Sussex. He has been a visiting Professor at the University of Westminster from 1997 to 2002; and has been an Honorary Professor at Cardiff University since

2004. He was appointed as Professor of Practice in Public Service Leadership and Innovation, Cardiff Business School, in August 2016.

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The BBC recognised Leighton Andrews and Chris Bryant for their work in the campaign, naming them as joint campaigners of the year in the 2007 BBC Wales political awards.

Facts & Trivia

Leighton Ranked on the list of most popular Politician. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United Kingdom. Leighton Andrews celebrates birthday on August 11 of every year.

On 19 July 2007 he was appointed as Deputy Minister for Regeneration in the coalition government, where he led the Heads of the Valleys and Mon a Menai programmes, and launched several Strategic Regeneration Areas across Wales. He was also responsible for digital inclusion.