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3 unusual facts about Rhodri Morgan


Cardiff Bay Barrage

One of the most prominent critics was the then Cardiff West MP, Rhodri Morgan (Labour), who was later to become First Minister of the Welsh Assembly.

Malcolm Bishop

Rhodri Morgan said that he did not know Bishop, had never met him, and had never even spoken to him.

Bishop is a Welsh-speaker and it was claimed that Rhodri Morgan, First Minister for Wales, had chosen him as his preferred candidate for the post of Counsel General to the National Assembly for Wales (now called Counsel General for Wales) in succession to Winston Roddick, QC, in 2004.


Cwmbran railway station

Refurbished facilities at the station were officially opened by Rhodri Morgan AM on Friday 14 March 2008.

Welsh devolution referendum, 2011

On 27 October 2007 the then First Minister Rhodri Morgan and the Deputy First Minster Ieuan Wyn Jones appointed Sir Emyr Jones Parry, the recently retired Permanent Representatives from Britain to the United Nations to head the convention.


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