Simon Hughes
Sir Simon Henry Ward Hughes is a British former politician. He is now the Chancellor of London South Bank University, and a strategic adviser to Talgo, a Spanish manufacturer of trains. Hughes was deputy leader of the Liberal Democrats from 2010 to 2014, and from 2013 until 2015 was Minister of State at the Ministry of Justice. He was the Member of Parliament (MP) for the constituency of Bermondsey and Old Southwark from 1983 until 2015. He declined a position in the House of Lords in 2015.
17 May 1951
Born on the same birth day (17 May): Branko Zebec • Carlos Peña • Eddie Lewis (American soccer) • Edmund, Earl of Rutland • Edvald Boasson Hagen • Giannis Taralidis • Jesse Winchester • Kandi Burruss • Roy Bentley • Todd Redmond • Werner Egk
Born in the same month (May 1951): Anatoly Karpov • Chris Frantz • Chris Ham • Christopher Cross • Fernando Lugo • Jonathan Richman • Joy Harjo • Karl-Hans Riehm • Mike Crapo • Mike D'Antoni • Sally Mann • Tatyana Tolstaya • Thomas Akers