Paul Murphy, Baron Murphy of Torfaen

The Right Honourable The Lord Murphy of Torfaen KCMCO KSG PC
Official portrait, 2019
Secretary of State for Wales
In office 24 January 2008 – 5 June 2009
Prime Minister	Gordon Brown
Preceded by	Peter Hain
Succeeded by	Peter Hain
In office 28 July 1999 – 24 October 2002
Prime Minister	Tony Blair
Preceded by	Alun Michael
Succeeded by	Peter Hain
Chair of the Intelligence and Security Committee
In office 6 May 2005 – 24 January 2008
Preceded by	Ann Taylor
Succeeded by	Margaret Beckett
Secretary of State for Northern Ireland
In office 24 October 2002 – 6 May 2005
Prime Minister	Tony Blair
Preceded by	John Reid
Succeeded by	Peter Hain
First Minister of Northern Ireland
as Secretary of State for Northern Ireland
In office 24 October 2002 – 6 May 2005
Monarch	Elizabeth II
Prime Minister	Tony Blair
Preceded by	John Reid
Succeeded by	Peter Hain
Member of the House of Lords Lord Temporal
Incumbent
Assumed office 20 October 2015 Life Peerage
Member of Parliament for Torfaen
In office 11 June 1987 – 30 March 2015
Preceded by	Leo Abse
Succeeded by	Nick Thomas-Symonds
Personal details
Born	(1948-11-25) 25 November 1948 (age 75) Usk, Monmouthshire, Wales
Political party	Labour
Alma mater	Oriel College, Oxford
Website	Constituency website

Paul Peter Murphy, Baron Murphy of Torfaen, KCMCO, KSG, PC (born 25 November 1948) is a British Labour Party politician who was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Torfaen from 1987 to 2015, and served in the Cabinet from 1999 to 2005 and again from 2008 to 2009 in the roles of Northern Irish and Welsh Secretary. He was nominated for a life peerage in the 2015 Dissolution Honours.^[1]