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Chris Ruane

Chris Ruane
Member of Parliament
for Vale of Clwyd
In office
1 May 1997 – 30 March 2015
Preceded by Constituency created
Succeeded by James Davies
Majority 2,509 (7.1%)
Personal details
Born (1958-07-18) 18 July 1958 (age 58)
Rhyl, Denbighshire, Wales
Nationality British
Political party Labour
Spouse(s) Gill Roberts
Religion Roman Catholic

Christopher Shaun Ruane (born 18 July 1958) is a Welsh Labour Party politician who was the Member of Parliament (MP) for the Vale of Clwyd from 1997 to 2015.

Ruane attended Ysgol Mair Roman Catholic primary school in Rhyl. He then went to the Blessed Edward Jones RC High School (three years above Carol Vorderman) on Cefndy Road in Rhyl, then in Flintshire, later Clwyd and since 1996 in Denbighshire. At the University of Wales College, Aberystwyth, he gained a BSc in Economics in 1979. From the University of Liverpool he gained a PGCE in 1980. He was a town councillor from 1988 and the Chairman of West Clwyd NUT region.

He was a primary school teacher from 1982–97, and a deputy head from 1991–7.

He contested Clwyd North West in 1992.

He was the Parliamentary Private Secretary to Peter Hain from 2003 until his resignation in March 2007 in protest against the decision to replace Trident.


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