Paul Philip Flynn (9 February 1935 – 17 February 2019) was a British Labour Party politician who served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Newport West from the 1987 general election until his death in 2019. He briefly served as Shadow Secretary of State for Wales and Shadow Leader of the House of Commons in 2016, becoming the oldest MP to hold a Shadow Cabinet position, aged 81. Flynn was born in Cardiff to an Irish father and Welsh mother in the Grangetown area of the city. His father was a postman who was wounded in the First World War and died when Flynn was five years old, leaving him and his four siblings to be raised in poverty by their mother; it was she who taught him Welsh. At the age of nine he was diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis. He was educated at the local Catholic grammar school St Illtyd's College and at University College, Cardiff. More information...
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