Nick Thomas-Symonds

The Right Honourable Nick Thomas-Symonds FRHistS MP
Official portrait, 2023
Shadow Minister without Portfolio
Incumbent
Assumed office 4 September 2023
Leader	Keir Starmer
Preceded by	Conor McGinn
Shadow President of the Board of Trade Shadow Secretary of State for International Trade
In office 29 November 2021 – 4 September 2023
Leader	Keir Starmer
Preceded by	Emily Thornberry
Succeeded by	Office abolished
Shadow Home Secretary
In office 5 April 2020 – 29 November 2021
Leader	Keir Starmer
Preceded by	Diane Abbott
Succeeded by	Yvette Cooper
Shadow Minister for Security
In office 5 July 2017 – 5 April 2020
Leader	Jeremy Corbyn
Preceded by	Office established
Succeeded by	Conor McGinn
Shadow Solicitor General for England and Wales
In office 9 October 2016 – 5 April 2020
Leader	Jeremy Corbyn
Preceded by	Jo Stevens
Succeeded by	Ellie Reeves
Shadow Minister for Employment
In office 11 January 2016 – 27 June 2016
Leader	Jeremy Corbyn
Preceded by	Emily Thornberry
Succeeded by	Margaret Greenwood
Shadow Minister for Pensions
In office 17 September 2015 – 11 January 2016
Leader	Jeremy Corbyn
Preceded by	Gregg McClymont
Succeeded by	Angela Rayner
Member of Parliament for Torfaen
Incumbent
Assumed office 7 May 2015
Preceded by	Paul Murphy
Majority	3,742 (10.1%)
Personal details
Born	(1980-05-26) 26 May 1980 (age 44) Blaenavon, Wales
Political party	Labour
Spouse(s)	Rebecca Nelson
Alma mater	St Edmund Hall, Oxford
Website	Official website

Nicklaus Thomas-Symonds FRHistS (born 26 May 1980) is a British academic, barrister and politician who has been Shadow Minister without Portfolio since 2023. A member of the Labour Party, he has been Member of Parliament for Torfaen since 2015.

He was Shadow Home Secretary from 2020 to 2021, and held several junior shadow portfolios from 2015 to 2020. Before his election to Parliament, he was a commercial barrister at Civitas Law. He has written books on Clement Attlee, Nye Bevan and Harold Wilson.^[1]