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Speculation Corner #3

The Telegraph adds this

Quote:The announcement comes as Richards' partner, Delyth Evans, steps up her campaign to become a Labour MP at the forthcoming election. A former Welsh Assembly member, Evans stood down as chief executive of the charity Dress for Success earlier this year to become candidate for Carmarthen West and South Pembrokeshire.

Suppose it there difficult to be perceived as an impartial civil while out leafleting for your Labour party candidate wife.

No telling what portfolio his wife would get if Labour win, if any. She sounds like a jolly good egg.

Delyth Evans (56)
1992 Assistant to Gordon Brown MP
1992-94 Policy adviser and speechwriter to the former Labour leader John Smith.
Former special adviser to Alun Michael (Assembly Member on the Mid & West Wales) (Chair of the Christian Socialist Movement).
2000-2003 Welsh Assembly Member on the Mid & West Wales.
2000-2003 Deputy Minister for Rural Affairs, Culture & the Environment.
2010-March 2014 Chief executive of Smart Works charity
September 2013 Selected by the Labour party to fight the Carmarthen West and South Pembrokeshire seat in the 2015 General Election.
"Delyth Evans is the chief executive of Smart Works charity which provides interview clothes, styling advice and interview training to unemployed women helping them get back to work. Delyth has also held non-executive roles as a Board member of the Film Agency for Wales and as a Trustee of the learning disability charity United Response."

Some interesting, but old, insights from the Daily Mail Daily Mail
back in June 2011. I dont necessarily agree with the insinuations, but this is about as much as the public are/were allowed to know about a senior public servants background.

Quote:Edward Charles Richards is 45, a graduate of the London School of Economics, and lives in South-West London. He seems to share Ed Miliband’s ambivalence towards marriage, for though he has two children with his long-standing partner Delyth Evans, he has not married her.

Evans, seven years older than Richards, is a well-connected member of the media-political establishment in her own right as a communications consultant. She was a speechwriter for Labour leader John Smith and a Labour member of the Welsh Assembly from 2000 to 2003.

Her business of consulting on media policy must be greatly assisted, one assumes, by sharing a roof with the most important media regulator in the land.