Tom Middlehurst

Tom Middlehurst (born 25 June 1936, Ormskirk, Lancashire) is a Welsh Labour Party politician and former member of the National Assembly for Wales for the Alyn and Deeside and a former Minister for Post-16 Education and Training.

Tom Middlehurst
Middlehurst in 1999
Minister for Post-16 Education and Training
In office 12 May 1999 – 9 October 2000
First Minister	Alun Michael Rhodri Morgan
Preceded by	New post
Succeeded by	Jane Davidson
Member of the Welsh Assembly for Alyn and Deeside
In office 6 May 1999 – 1 May 2003
Preceded by	New Assembly
Succeeded by	Carl Sargeant
Personal details
Born	(1936-06-25) 25 June 1936 Ormskirk, England
Political party	Labour
Children	2: Paul & Julie
Alma mater	Liverpool John Moores University

Middlehust is also a former councillor having served on Alyn and Deeside District Council between 1986–95 and then on Flintshire County Council where he served as leader between 1995 and 1999.

Elected in the inaugural Assembly Elections on 1999, Middlehurst a well respected Council Leader was appointed by Alun Michael to his first government. The government he was part of was operating as a minority government and plans were being drawn up to form a coalition between Labour and the Liberal Democrats. Middlehurst resigned from the government on 9 October claiming he could not "contemplate sitting down at the Cabinet table with the Liberal Democrats".[1]

He retired from the Assembly in 2003.