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Paul Flynn
Paul Flynn was the MP for Newport West from 1987 until his death in 2019. In 2016, aged eighty-one, he served as shadow Secretary of State for Wales and shadow Leader of the House ...view morePaul Flynn was the MP for Newport West from 1987 until his death in 2019. In 2016, aged eighty-one, he served as shadow Secretary of State for Wales and shadow Leader of the House of Commons, making him the oldest MP to hold a shadow Cabinet position in over a century. Described by the Welsh First Minister as ‘a giant of the Welsh Labour movement’, he was hailed by the Prime Minister as ‘an outstanding parliamentarian and a tireless campaigner’. The late political sketchwriter Simon Hoggart referred to him as ‘the thinking man’s Dennis Skinner’. His best-known work is How to Be an MP, the most-borrowed book in the House of Commons library.view less