Paul Flynn (politician)

Paul Philip Flynn (9 February 1935 – 17 February 2019) was a British Labour Party politician. He was born in Cardiff, Wales. He was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Newport West from the 1987 general election until his death in 2019. 
In 2016, he briefly was Shadow Secretary of State for Wales and Shadow Leader of the House of Commons. In 2016, he became the oldest MP in over a century to hold a shadow cabinet position. He died on 17 February 2019, aged 84.