Английская Википедия:Delyth Evans

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Шаблон:Short description Шаблон:Use dmy dates Шаблон:Use British English Шаблон:Infobox AM Margaret Delyth Evans (born 17 March 1958) is a former Welsh Labour politician who was a Member of the Welsh Assembly (AM) for the Mid and West Wales region between 2000 and 2003.

Early life and career

Margaret Delyth Evans was born in Cardiff, Wales on 17 March 1958. She was educated at Ysgol Gyfun Rhydfelen near Pontypridd and at the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth, where she achieved BA Hons in French. She is a native speaker of Welsh. She also has a sister, Carys Evans, who worked in the policy unit of the National Assembly for Wales during the premiership of Alun Michael and has a background in HM Treasury.

Prior to her career in politics, Evans was a journalist and a management consultant. As a journalist, she worked for the BBC, ITN, HTV Wales and Sky News. At the BBC, she worked on The World at One and afternoon programmes. In 1984 she joined the Labour Party, later working on Margaret Beckett's successful deputy leadership campaign in 1992. In the same year, she became an assistant to the shadow chancellor Gordon Brown and a policy adviser, researcher and speechwriter for the Labour leader John Smith. Evans also became a member of Smith's policy unit alongside advisers Dave Ward and Pat McFadden, where she drew up policy for the shadow cabinet. She stopped advising the Labour leadership in 1994 before later becoming a special adviser to Alun Michael, the first secretary of Wales, in 1999.

Political career

At the 1999 National Assembly for Wales election, Evans was selected as the Labour Party's second top-up candidate on the party list for the Mid and West Wales region, behind party leader Alun Michael. As the first candidate on the list, Michael was elected Assembly Member (AM) for the regional seat, so Evans was not elected to the assembly. On 1 May 1999, Michael stood down from the assembly after a motion of no confidence in his premiership in February 2000 had forced him to resign as first secretary. On the same day, Evans automatically took Michael's place in the assembly as Labour's second candidate on the party list at the assembly election, as per assembly rules. A by-election was not required according to the rules, and Evans was sworn into office as AM for Mid and West Wales on 8 May 1999. In this role, she served alongside Conservative AMs Nick Bourne and Glyn Davies and Plaid Cymru AM Cynog Dafis.

On 24 July 2000, Evans was appointed to the interim administration of Rhodri Morgan as Deputy Secretary for Agriculture, Local Government and Environment, succeeding Carwyn Jones. With the formation of the coalition partnership, her post was reorganised and on 17 October she became Deputy Minister for Rural Affairs, Culture and Environment, remaining in this role until the 2003 assembly election.

Evans did not contest the 2003 election.

In September 2013 she was selected by the Labour party to fight the Carmarthen West and South Pembrokeshire seat in the 2015 General Election, losing to The Conservatives' Simon Hart.

Personal life

Evans is married to Ed Richards, the former chief executive of Ofcom. They have two children.

References

• Delyth Evans, BBC News, 4 July 2000
• Alun Michael resigns from Welsh assembly, Independent, 16 March 2000