Tom Middlehurst
Tom Middlehurst is a Welsh Labour Party politician and former member of the National Assembly of Wales for the Alyn and Deeside and a former Minister for Post-16 Education and Training.
Middlehust is also a former councillor having served on Alyn and Deeside District Council between 1986–95 and then on Flintshire County Council where he served as leader between 1995-99.
Elected in the inaugural Assembly Elections on 1999, Middlehurst a well respected Council Leader was appointed by Alun Michael to his first government. The government he was part of was operating as a minority government and plans were being drawn up to form a coalition between Labour and the Liberal Democrats. Middlehurst resigned from the government on 9 October claiming he could not “contemplate sitting down at the Cabinet table with the Liberal Democrats”.
He retired from the Assembly in 2003.
