Nia Griffith
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Nia Rhiannon Griffith (born 4 December 1956) is a British politician. She is the Labour Member of Parliament (MP) for Llanelli in Wales.
Her family comes from mining villages near Neath, in South Wales. She was born in Dublin, Ireland. She was educated at Newland High School in Hull and Somerville College, Oxford where she graduated with a first class degree in modern languages. After Oxford, she trained to be a teacher at the University of Wales, Bangor. Prior to entering Parliament, she worked as a teacher, an education adviser and an Estyn Schools Inspector (the Welsh equivalent of Ofsted). Immediately before becoming an MP she was Head of Languages at Morriston Comprehensive School, Swansea. She speaks five languages: English, Welsh, Italian, French and Spanish.
She was elected to the House of Commons for the Welsh seat of Llanelli at the 2005 General Election following the retirement of Denzil Davies. She won the seat with a majority of 7,234 votes and remains the MP there. She made her maiden speech on 19 May 2005[1] and is a member of both the Welsh Affairs and the European Scrutiny Select Committees.
Nia Griffith joined the Labour Party in 1981. She has served as Secretary of the Carmarthenshire County Labour Party. She was elected as a councillor to the Carmarthen Town Council in 1987, serving as the sheriff in 1997 and deputy mayor in 1998. Her main political interests are Europe and the environment.
On 19 October 2006 she proposed that speed limit signs should be read in kilometres per hour rather than miles per hour, to reduce accident rates.[2]
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- 100 Ideas for Teaching Languages by Nia Griffith, 2005, Continuum International Publishing Group ISBN 0-8264-8549-9
