John Morris led the charge for a Welsh assembly in the 1970s that came to fruition 20 years later.
BBC Wales political reporterJohn Morris served in the cabinets of three Labour prime ministers - Harold Wilson, Jim Callaghan and Tony Blair.
He entered government as parliamentary secretary at the Ministry of Power between 1964 and 1966 in the Wilson administration, later moving to the Ministry of Transport and becoming minister of defence in 1968. Hearing the vote results, he pronounced that when "you see an elephant on the doorstep you can't ignore it".Media caption,John Morris, a barrister, QC and Welsh speaker, returned to high office as government attorney general, or chief legal adviser, in 1997, following Tony Blair's first landslide victory.One of the main issues he faced as attorney general was the involvement of UK forces in Nato airstrikes against Serb forces in 1999.
"We were breaking new ground. But when you have ethnic cleansing on the scale you had in Kosovo, when thousands and thousands of people are moved from their homes because of their background, religion and ethnicity, then something has to be done.
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