ITV and Yearbook Awards
I was delighted that Jonathan Morgan was victor in the category AM of the year. Jonathan is an outstanding poilitician and a very effective spokesman on Health as well as a good friend.
I was also pleased at the lifetime award to Neil Kinnock presented by Lord Kenneth Morgan of Aberdyfi. Neil Kinnock has made an outstanding contribution to British politics . There is no argument about that and I think his speech denouncing Militant in Liverpool at the Labour Conference must rank as one of the finest political. speeches of recent times. On a personal note he is also a very generous and kind man. I well remember when a group of politicians from the Assembly across political parties went out to Brussels and on the agenda was a meeting with Neol Kinnock as Commissioner. Amongst the group were several Labour politicians like Rhodri Morgan whom Neil knew very well. It would have been the easiest thing in the world to spend the time talking to his political colleagues but he took a great deal of time and trouble to make sure that Jonathan Morgan and I were fully briefed and made to feel at home.
