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Peter John Law (1 April 1948 – 25 April 2006) [1] was a Welsh politician. For most of his career Law sat as a Labour councillor and subsequently Labour Co-operative Assembly member (AM) for Blaenau Gwent.
Blaenau Gwent: 1992, 1997, 2001: Sir Dennis Walters [2021 23] Conservative: 28 November 1928 1 October 2021 Westbury: 1964, 1966, 1970, 1974 I & II, 1979, 1983, 1987: Mike Weatherley [2021 24] Conservative: 2 July 1957 20 May 2021 Hove: 2010: Andrew Welsh [2021 25] Scottish National: 19 April 1944 18 June 2021 South Angus
After Peter Law's resignation from the Labour Party due to the imposition of an all-women shortlist, and later death from a brain tumour on 25 April 2006, Trish Law was supported by Blaenau Gwent People's Voice Group, the group formed by those who helped Peter Law overturn a 19,000 Labour majority at the 2005 General Election.
The court was shown graphic images of the 12-year-old's extensive injuries and had heard she asked her mother to "say a prayer" as they rushed to hospital after the attack in Nantyglo, Blaenau ...
Two by-elections were held for the constituency of Blaenau Gwent in Wales following the death of Member of Parliament and Assembly Member Peter Law on 25 April 2006. As Law was the MP and Assembly Member (AM), his death required by-elections in both the parliamentary seat and the equivalent Welsh Assembly constituency.
Blaenau Gwent incorporates most of the area of Aneurin Bevan's old constituency and other areas as population expansion has been low or negative following the 1960s. The constituency was created in 1983, twenty-three years after Bevan's death, from the upper part of the former Abertillery constituency, the town of Brynmawr from Brecon and Radnor, and Bevan's old Ebbw Vale seat with the ...
He was the Member of Parliament (MP) for the Blaenau Gwent constituency in South Wales from 2006 to 2010, representing the Blaenau Gwent People's Voice Group. He was elected at a by-election in June 2006 following the death of independent MP Peter Law, but lost his seat at the 2010 general election to Labour's Nick Smith by 10,516 votes.
The Blaenau Gwent People's Voice Group was a political party based in the Blaenau Gwent area of Wales. The party was formed in the aftermath of the election to the House of Commons of Peter Law as an independent Member of Parliament, beating the official Labour candidate. Peter Law stood against the official party candidate after an internal ...