1. Don Touhig went to St Francis RC School in Abersychan near Pontypool, then the Mid Gwent College in Pontypool.
17 Facts About Don Touhig
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Don Touhig was the general manager of the Bailey Group from 1992 to 1993, then of Bailey Print from 1993 to 1995.
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Don Touhig served on Gwent County Council from 1973 to 1995.
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Don Touhig joined the TGWU in 1962 and the Labour Party in 1966.
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From 1996 to 1997, Don Touhig was a Member of the Welsh Affairs Select Committee.
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Don Touhig served as Parliamentary Private Secretary to Gordon Brown, then Chancellor of the Exchequer, from May 1997 to July 1999.
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Don Touhig had to resign as PPS in 1999, when he confessed to receiving a leaked Social Security Select Committee report on Child benefit.
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Don Touhig was later suspended for three days from the Commons.
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Don Touhig was appointed to serve as an Assistant Whip from November 1999 to June 2001.
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Don Touhig was a junior minister at the Ministry of Defence, with special responsibility for veterans, but left government in the May 2006 reshuffle.
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Don Touhig was made a Member of the Privy Council on 19 July 2006.
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On 29 January 2010, Don Touhig announced that he would stand down at the 2010 General Election.
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On 28 June 2010, Don Touhig was made a life peer in the House of Lords as Baron Don Touhig, of Islwyn and Glansychan in the County of Gwent.
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Don Touhig was appointed to the opposition front bench as a Whip and Shadow Spokesperson for Defence in September 2015, serving as a Whip until September 2016 and a Defence Spokesperson until October 2017.
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Don Touhig returned to the defence brief from April 2020 to May 2021.
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Don Touhig was married on 21 September 1968 to Jennifer Hughes.
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Don Touhig is a papal knight of the Order of Saint Sylvester.