MPs in NPT (From 2015)
Two Members of Parliament serve the County Borough of Neath Port Talbot
The MP for Neath, and surrounding areas, is Christina Rees
Christina Rees (born 21 February 1954) is a British Labour Co-operative Party politician. She has been the MP for Neath since May 2015.
Rees was born in the village of Kenfig Hill in south Wales. Her father died when she was a young teenager and she was brought up by her mother.
Rees is a qualified barrister.
Rees stood as the Labour candidate for Arfon in the Welsh Assembly elections in May 2011, and was placed fourth on the Labour's Wales wide list for the 2014 European Elections.
Rees first became MP for Neath following the UK general election of 2015.
Rees was appointed a Shadow Justice Minister in January 2016, but quit her position during the mass resignation of Shadow ministers following the EU referendum. She supported Owen Smith in the 2016 Labour Party (UK) leadership election. She later became one of 33 Labour MPs to return to the front bench, again in the position of Shadow Justice Minister. In February 2017, she was appointed to the position of Shadow Secretary of State for Wales.
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The MP for Aberavon, covering Port Talbot and districts, is Stephen Kinnock
Stephen Nathan Kinnock (born 1 January 1970) is a British Labour Party politician who has been the Member of Parliament(MP) for Aberavon since the 2015 general election. His wife is the former Danish Prime Minister Helle Thorning-Schmidt. His father, Neil Kinnock, is a former Leader of the British Labour Party and was a European Commissioner and Vice President of the European Commission. His mother is a former Labour Party MEP.
Kinnock was born in Tredegar, Monmouthshire, the son of British politicians Glenys Elizabeth Parry and Neil Gordon Kinnock. He was educated at Drayton Manor High School, a comprehensive school in London. He studied Modern Languages at Queens' College, Cambridge, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree. He studied for a Master of Arts (MA) degree at the College of Europe in Bruges, graduating in 1993.
Stephen Kinnock describes himself as from a "Labour and Trade Union family".
In March 2014, Kinnock was selected as the Labour Party candidate for the seat of Aberavon in Wales for the 2015 General Election. On 7 May 2015, he was elected the Member of Parliament for Aberavon with a majority of 10,445. He was re-elected in 2017 with an increased majority of 16,761, and 68.1% of the vote share.
He supported Owen Smith in the failed attempt to replace Jeremy Corbyn in the 2016 Labour Party (UK) leadership election.
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Lord Hain of Neath