Tom Middlehurst (born 25 June 1936, Ormskirk, Lancashire) is a Welsh Labour Party politician and former member of the National Assembly for Wales for the Alyn and Deeside and a former Minister for Post-16 Education and Training. Middlehust is also a former councillor having served on Alyn and Deeside District Council between 1986–95 and then on Flintshire County Council where he served as leader between 1995 and 1999. Elected in the inaugural Assembly Elections on 1999, Middlehurst a well respected Council Leader was appointed by Alun Michael to his first government. The government he was part of was operating as a minority government and plans were being drawn up to form a coalition between Labour and the Liberal Democrats. Middlehurst resigned from the government on 9 October claiming he could not "contemplate sitting down at the Cabinet table with the Liberal Democrats". He retired from the Assembly in 2003. References Profile on BBC Website September 1999 External links Welsh Labour Party Website Living people Councillors in Wales Wales AMs 1999–2003 Welsh Labour members of the Senedd Members of the Welsh Assembly Government Alumni of Liverpool John Moores University 1936 births People from Ormskirk