Eluned Morgan, Baroness Morgan of Ely

Who is Eluned Morgan, Baroness Morgan of Ely?

Eluned Morgan, Baroness Morgan of Ely, is the shadow minister for Wales in the House of Lords and speaks on behalf of the Labour party. She is also a shadow whip in the Lords on foreign affairs issues.

The daughter of Revd Canon Bob Morgan OBE, a vicar in the Church in Wales, and Elaine Morgan she was born and brought up in Ely, Cardiff a working class housing estate on the outskits of Cardiff. Educated at Glantaf Welsh language comprehensive school, she won a scholarship to the United World College of the Atlantic, part of the United World Colleges and she gained a degree in European Studies from the University of Hull. Eluned formerly worked as a researcher for S4C and the BBC. In 1990 she worked as a Stagiaire in the European Parliament. She was the youngest MEP when she took up her seat in 1994. On leaving the Parliament she worked as the Director of National Development for SSE in Wales from 2009 to June 2013 where she was responsible for establishing the new SWALEC Smart Energy Centre in Treforest.

Eluned Morgan served as the budget control spokesperson for the 180 strong Socialist Group. She was also the Labour Party's European spokesperson on Energy, Industry and Science. She was responsible for drafting the European Parliament's response to the Energy Green Paper and also took the lead role in negotiating on behalf of the Parliament the revision of the Electricity Directive. Considerable strides were made in increasing the rights of consumers in the revisions and fuel poverty was for the first time placed on the European agenda.