- Albert Owen
Infobox MP
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name = Albert Owen
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constituency_MP = Ynys Môn
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majority = 1,242 (3.5%)
predecessor =Ieuan Wyn Jones
successor =Incumbent
term_start = 7 June 2001
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birth_date = Birth date and age|1959|08|10|df=yes
birth_place =Holyhead ,Anglesey
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nationality = British
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party = Labour
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alma_mater =University of York
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footnotes =Albert Owen (born 10 August 1959) is a Welsh politician, and
member of Parliament for Ynys Môn for the Labour Party. He took the seat in the 2001 election fromPlaid Cymru with a margin of exactly eight hundred votes and retained the seat with an increased majority of approximately twelve hundred votes in the 2005 election. He is a member of the ParliamentaryWelsh Affairs Select Committee .Career
Like most of
Holyhead , his hometown, including the Labour MEPGlenys Kinnock , he attended the Holyhead County Comprehensive School. [http://politics.guardian.co.uk/person/parliament/0,,-6520,00.html Albert Owen biography] , Guardian, accessed 12 August 2008] He left when he was sixteen for a career in theMerchant Navy , and was a seaman until 1992. In 1995, he became an advisor in theCitizens Advice Bureau , specialising in welfare rights, and from 1997 to 2001 he managed the J. E. O'Toole Centre in Holyhead - a centre dedicated to the welfare, education and leisure of unemployed workers in Holyhead. In 1999, he unsuccessfully stood for the Labour party in theWelsh Assembly elections.In Parliament
Albert has rebelled against the Labour Party's political whip on certain occasions. Most notably:
* he voted against the government's
Higher Education Funding Bill - 27th January, 2004
* he voted against theHouse of Lords amendment onfoundation hospital s - 19th November, 2003
* he voted for an outright ban onhunting with dogs - 30th June, 2003 (this was not a whipped vote and this should not be seen as a rebellion)
* he voted for ananti-war amendment during theIraq crisis debate - 18th March, 2003References
External links
* [http://politics.guardian.co.uk/person/0,9290,-6520,00.html Guardian Unlimited Politics - Ask Aristotle: Albert Owen MP]
* [http://www.theyworkforyou.com/mp/albert_owen/ynys_mon TheyWorkForYou.com - Albert Owen MP]Offices Held
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