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National Assembly for Wales
Cardiff Bay
Cardiff
CF99 1NA
Tel: 029 2089 8350
Email: Nicholas.Bourne@wales.gov.uk
Nicholas Bourne AM
Representing the Mid and West Wales electoral division (of which Preseli Pembrokeshire is one of the eight constituencies in Wales which make up the division) Nick holds the position as the Leader of Official Opposition in the National Assembly for Wales.
Leading the Welsh Conservatives in the National Assembly makes Nick Bourne one of the best known politicians in Wales.
Born in 1952, Nick was educated at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth, and Trinity College, Cambridge, where he was President of Cambridge University Lawyers and Treasurer of Cambridge University Conservative Association. A former Professor of Law, Nick has been Assistant Principal of Swansea Institute of Higher Education, and is also a visiting lecturer at Hong Kong University.
His political interests include the economy, foreign affairs, health and education. Nick is also a keen supporter of charities and organisations in Wales, including the NSPCC, National Trust, and the British Heart Foundation. His interests include visiting museums and art galleries, travelling, walking and sport
Under Nick's leadership the Welsh Conservatives are consistently rated as the assembly's hardest working, most effective group.
As a member for the Mid and West Wales region, Nick is a tireless campaigner for our rural communities, opposing wind farm developments, the closure of post office and small schools, and pressing for improved health care provision in non-urban areas.
Nick is also an active campaigner on a range of other issues, including leading calls for a referendum on plans to give the assembly law making powers, the future of the National Botanic Garden, and on the growing cost of government in Wales.
First elected in 1999, and re-elected in 2003 and 2007, Nick sits on the assembly's European Affairs committee and is the party's spokesman on constitutional matters.
He was also a member of the National Assembly Advisory Group (NAAG), the body which set up the institution's working arrangements. Nick has also contested Parliamentary seats in Chesterfield and Worcester.
In 2005 Nick was named Assembly Member of the Year in the ITV Wales/Wales Yearbook political awards. Judges praised his "deft political touch", which they said had ensured "his group is seen as an effective political force". Nick was also named Local Campaigner of the Year in 2005 by BBC Wales viewers.
