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词条 Vaughan Gething
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  1. Early life

  2. Professional career

  3. Political career

  4. Personal life

  5. External links

  6. Offices held

  7. References

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}}Vaughan Gething (born 1974) is an AM Welsh Labour Co-operative politician serving as Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Services since 2016, and has served as Member of the National Assembly (AM) for Cardiff South and Penarth since 2011.[3]

Early life

Gething was born in Zambia in 1974, where his father (whom Gething describes as "a white Welsh economic migrant") was working as a vet.[4] His mother is a black Zambian.[4] When he was two he moved to Dorset, England with his family, which includes three brothers and a sister.[4] He studied at Beaminster Comprehensive and Sixth Form followed by Aberystwyth University and at the Cardiff Law School, University of Wales.[4][5] Gething became president of Aberystwyth University Guild of Students and the first mixed-race president of the National Union of Students Wales.[4][6]

Professional career

Having completed his training as a solicitor in Cardiff in 2001, with the trade union solicitors Thompsons, Gething chose to specialise in employment law. He became a partner in Thompsons in 2007.[5]

In 2008, at the age of 34, Gething became the youngest President of Wales TUC, also becoming the first black person in the role.[7]

Political career

Gething joined the Labour Party when he was 17, to campaign in the 1992 UK general election.[4] He was a councillor from 2004 to 2008, representing Butetown electoral ward on Cardiff Council, having been elected with a majority of two votes.[5][15] Gething was selected as the Welsh Labour candidate for the Cardiff South and Penarth constituency at the National Assembly for Wales. Lorraine Barrett, who had represented Cardiff South and Penarth since the Assembly's creation in 1999, had announced her intention to stand down at the 2011 election. At the National Assembly for Wales election on 5 May 2011, Gething increased the Labour vote with a swing of 12.5%. At 13,814, his share of the vote was over 50%, giving him a majority of 6,259 over the Welsh Conservative Party candidate, Ben Gray, placed second.[3][8] At the following 2016 Welsh Assembly election, Gething once again increased his majority in terms of vote share.

Following the 2016 Welsh Assembly election, Gething was promoted to Cabinet Secretary for Health, Wellbeing and Sport. In a Cabinet re-shuffle in November 2017, Gething became Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Services.[9]

Gething, alongside Eluned Morgan and Mark Drakeford, was one of the three contenders in the 2018 election for the leadership of Welsh Labour, but was defeated by Finance Secretary Mark Drakeford.

Personal life

Gething and his wife Michelle live in Penarth, where he has lived since 2011.[10] He is a member of the GMB trade union.[7]

External links

{{Commons category|Vaughan Gething}}
  • Official website
  • Biography - National Assembly for Wales Website

Offices held

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| title = Deputy Minister for Health
| years = 2014 - 2016
| before = Gwenda Thomas
| after= Rebecca Evans
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| years = 2016 - present
| before=Mark Drakeford
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References

1. ^https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-politics-36326335
2. ^https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-23073832
3. ^{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/special/election2011/constituency/html/26674.stm |title=Wales elections > Cardiff South and Penarth |publisher=BBC|work=BBC News|date=6 May 2011 |accessdate=12 May 2011}}
4. ^{{cite news|last=Owen |first=Paul|title=Black Welshman aims to take the fight to the BNP|url=https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2009/aug/03/vaughan-gething-labour |date=3 August 2009 |publisher=Guardian News and Media |newspaper=The Guardian|location=Manchester |accessdate=12 May 2011 }}
5. ^{{cite web|url=http://vaughangething.com/images/VaughanGethingAssemblySelection2011.pdf |format=PDF|title=Vaughan Gething Assembly selection 2011 |publisher=Welsh Labour |year=2011 |accessdate=13 May 2011}}
6. ^{{cite news|last=Crecsi|first=Elena|title=From student unions to the Senedd and Westminster, how do today's youth become tomorrow's AMs and MPs?|url=http://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/2013/03/15/from-student-unions-to-the-senedd-and-westminster-how-do-today-s-youth-become-tomorrow-s-ams-and-mps-91466-32992122/|accessdate=15 March 2013|newspaper=Wales Online|date=15 March 2013}}
7. ^{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/7416857.stm |title=Morgan urges Labour to hold firm |publisher=BBC|work=BBC News|date=23 May 2008 |accessdate=12 May 2011}}
8. ^{{cite news |last=Blake|first=Aled |title=Assembly election: Meet the incoming AMs|url=http://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/need-to-read/2011/05/06/assembly-election-meet-the-incoming-ams-91466-28649615/ |date=6 May 2011 |publisher=Media Wales Ltd |work=WalesOnline website |accessdate=12 May 2011 }}
9. ^{{Cite web |url= http://gov.wales/about/cabinet/cabinetm/vaughan-gething/?skip=1&lang=en |title= Welsh Government {{!}} Vaughan Gething AM |website= gov.wales |language= EN |access-date= 2017-11-13}}
10. ^{{cite web|title=Vaughan Gething-about|url=http://vaughangething.co.uk/about.html |accessdate=12 May 2011 |publisher=Vaughan Gething |year=2011}}
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