Alan Williams

The Right Honourable Alan Williams (born October 14, 1930) is a Welsh politician for the Labour Party. He has been MP for Swansea West since the 1964 general election and is currently the "Uncle of the House", the second-longest serving member of the House of Commons behind the Father of the House. Williams is also the last parliamentary survivor of those that were elected in Harold Wilson's 1964 landslide election win.

He was a minister under Harold Wilson and James Callaghan. He has been on the backbenches since 1989. He is a Eurosceptic and was opposed to the National Assembly for Wales.

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