Education
Like most of Holyhead, his hometown, including the Labour Member of the European Parliament Glenys Kinnock, he attended the Holyhead County Comprehensive School.
Like most of Holyhead, his hometown, including the Labour Member of the European Parliament Glenys Kinnock, he attended the Holyhead County Comprehensive School.
He took the seat in the 2001 election from Plaid Cymru with a margin of exactly eight hundred votes and retained the seat at the three subsequent general elections, though always with slim majorities. He left when he was sixteen for a career in the Merchant Navy, and was a seaman until 1992. In 1995, he became an advisor in the Citizens Advice Bureau, specialising in welfare rights, and from 1997 to 2001 he managed the J. East. O"Toole Centre in Holyhead – a centre dedicated to the welfare, education and leisure of unemployed workers in Holyhead.
In 1999, he unsuccessfully stood for the Labour party in the Welsh Assembly elections.
From the University of York he gained a Bachelor in Politics in 1997. Albert has rebelled against the Labour Party"s political whip on certain occasions including notably:
he voted against the government"s Higher Education Funding Bill introducing "top up fees" – 27 January 2004
he voted against the House of Lords amendment on foundation hospitals – 19 November 2003
he voted for an anti-war amendment during the Iraq crisis debate – 18 March 2003 – though he was subsequently absent for a vote on requiring Security Council support for any further action.
Welsh Labour, Labour Party.
53rd United Kingdom Parliament. 54th United Kingdom Parliament. 55th United Kingdom Parliament.
56th United Kingdom Parliament]
He is a member of the Parliamentary Welsh Affairs Select Committee, and vice-chairman of the All Party Parliamentary Flag Group.
