History
A traditionally safe Labour seat which used to return George Thomas before he became Speaker, it has returned a Conservative only once, in the Tories' landslide year of 1983, in the shape of Stefan Terlezki.
The seat returned to the Labour fold safely in 1987 with Rhodri Morgan. After the creation of the Welsh Assembly Government, Morgan stepped down from his Westminster seat in 2001 to serve as leader of Welsh Labour and First Minister for Wales. Kevin Brennan retained the seat for Labour on Morgan's retirement from Westminster politics, and has remained the MP ever since.
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