WELSH LIB DEM - Key Persons
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- Chairman of Montgomeryshire Liberal Democrats
Alison Alexander is Chair of Montgomeryshire Liberal Democrats and was the constituency's Senedd candidate in 2021.
She is a trained journalist, horticulturist and ecologist who speaks French, Spanish and very rusty Mandarin Chinese. Her career has spanned local journalism, botanical horticulture and volunteer management and training within the community gardening movement.
She is Chair of BRACE (Buildling Resilience Against Climate Emergency) in her nearby town of Llanfyllin, a group that aims to find local solutions to the biodiversity and climate emergencies. The volunteers run a community garden, orchard, repair café and community fridge.
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- Deputy Leader & Group Leader in the House of Lords
- the Party Deputy Leader and Leader of the Group in the UK Parliament
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- Executive Officer for Policy Development
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- Executive Officer for Membership Development
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- Executive Officer for Campaigns & Communications / View
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- Penylan - Leader of the Welsh Liberal Democrats Group
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- the Deputy Party President
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- Vice Chair of the Council
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- Chairman of Conference Committee and Deputy Chair of the Board
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- Co - Chair of the Young Welsh Liberals
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- State Chair of Candidates and Ordinary Member
Martin Thomas was born on 13th March 1937 in Wrexham, North Wales and was educated at Grove Park Grammar School and Peterhouse, Cambridge (MA, LLB Classics and Law). He has had a largely legal Professional Career as a Solicitor 1961, Law Lecturer 1966 - 68, Barrister 1967 and Queen's Counsel since 1979.
Martin became a Recorder of the Crown Court in 1976 and Deputy High Court Judge in 1985. A bencher of Gray's Inn in 1991, he was a member of the Criminal Injuries Board between 1985 to 1993. He has also been a Director of the independent radio company Marcher Sound Limited from 1982 and its Chairman between 1991 - 2000. Martin Thomas acted as an Advisor to East Asia Institute at the University of Cambridge from 1998 and Patron of China Law Conferences in Cambridge between 1998 and 2001.
Martin has been a candidate for the Liberal Party eight times, in every election between 1964 and 1987. He chaired the Welsh Liberal Party between 1969 and 1974 and was its President between 1977 and 1979. He was President of the Welsh Liberal Democrats between 1993 and 1996. He was made a Life Peer in 1996. He has been a Liberal Democrat Spokesman in the House of Lords on Welsh Affairs and Home Affairs and was a Member of the Commission on Local Government Electoral Arrangements in Wales. In December 2006, Martin was appointed Shadow Lord Chancellor with oversight of all the Law Officers and of legal reform. In 2007 Martin was appointed Shadow Attorney General.
Martin is currently Co-Chair of the Liberal Democrat Parliamentary Party Committee on Home Affairs, Justice and Equalities (MoJ).
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- Executive Officer for Finance & Resources
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- Member of the Board
- Ordinary Member
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- Wales Spokesperson in the House of Commons
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- the Party President and Chair of the Board