Tributes have been paid to Lord Morris of Aberavon, who has died aged 91. Former Prime Minister Tony Blair said Wales' longest-serving MP had lived a life of "exemplary public service".
BBC presenter Huw Edwards described him as "one of the most distinguished Welshmen of his time, a former Attorney General and Secretary of State for Wales, and one of the fathers of devolution". Lord Morris represented Aberavon for 41 years, from 1959 to 2001, and was Welsh Secretary from 1974 to 1979 was under Harold Wilson and Jim Callaghan.
First entering government in 1964 in the Wilson administration, he was a junior minister in the Ministry of Power and Ministry of Transport, before becoming minister of state for defence equipment in 1968 during the Nigerian civil war. In 1974, when Labour returned to power after nearly four years in opposition, he was appointed Welsh secretary and had the task of taking the party's ill-fated original devolution legislation through a hostile House of Commons.
