Brian Gibbons

Dr Brian Gibbons, AM, FRCGP (born in Dublin, 25 August 1950) was the Labour Party Assembly Member for Aberavon from May 1999 to May 2010, when he stood down. He was appointed Welsh Assembly Government Minister for Social Justice and Local Government in July 2007. A son of the former Irish Fianna Fáil politician, the late Dr Hugh Gibbons, he was raised in western Ireland, and moved to Yorkshire in 1976 to train as a general medical practitioner in Calderdale. He subsequently became a GP in Blaengwynfi and also worked as a GP in partnership with Dr Julian Tudor Hart at Glyncorrwg in the Afan Valley near Port Talbot. A member of the BMA, the Socialist Health Association, and the Medical Practitioners Union (UNITE), he is a fellow of the...