Nick Thomas-Symonds

Nick Thomas-Symonds
Official portrait, 2024
Minister for the Cabinet Office
Paymaster General
Assumed office
8 July 2024
Prime MinisterKeir Starmer
Preceded byJohn Glen
Minister for the Constitution and European Union Relations
Assumed office
8 July 2024
Prime MinisterKeir Starmer
Preceded byEsther McVey
Shadow portfolios
Shadow Cabinet
2023-2024Minister without Portfolio
2021-2023President of the Board of Trade, International Trade
2020-2021Home Secretary
Shadow Minister
2017-2020Security
2016-2020Solicitor General
2016Employment
2015-2016Pensions
Member of Parliament
for Torfaen
Assumed office
7 May 2015
Preceded byPaul Murphy
Majority7,322 (20.5%)
Personal details
BornNicklaus Thomas-Symonds
(1980-05-26) 26 May 1980
Griffithstown, Torfaen, Wales
PartyLabour
Spouse
Rebecca Nelson
(m. 2006)
Children3
EducationSt Alban's R.C. High School
Alma materSt Edmund Hall, Oxford (BA)
Occupation
  • Politician
  • academic
  • barrister
WebsiteOfficial website
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Nicklaus Thomas-Symonds FRHistS (born 26 May 1980) is a British academic, barrister and politician who has been Paymaster General, Minister for the Cabinet Office and Minister for the Constitution and European Union Relations since July 2024. A member of the Labour Party, he has been Member of Parliament (MP) for Torfaen since 2015.

Thomas-Symonds served as Shadow Home Secretary from 2020 to 2021, and held several junior shadow portfolios from 2015 to 2020. Prior to his election to Parliament, he was a chancery and commercial barrister at Civitas Law. He is the author of books on Clement Attlee, Nye Bevan and Harold Wilson.