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| | Alun Michael: rise and fall | Special reports | Guardian Unlimited |
 | | However, Mr Michael did not enjoy widespread support in his party and was viewed by many as a Millbank appointee in Wales - in the final no confidence vote 28 Labour assembly members abstained. |
 | | Mr Michael, MP for Cardiff South and Penarth since 1987, became Welsh secretary in 1998 when Ron Davies, who was expected to become first secretary of the devolved assembly, resigned after he was mugged on Clapham Common, south London. |
 | | Mr Michael beat Rhodri Morgan in a vote to become Labour's candidate for the first secretary in an electoral college similar to that which is now being used to decide the party's favoured mayor. |
| www.guardian.co.uk /Wales/Story/0,,191003,00.html (310 words) |
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