Editing Neil Kinnock (section)

==Personal life==
[[File:Glenys and Neil Kinnock.jpg|thumb|Neil and [[Glenys Kinnock]] in 2002]]
Kinnock met [[Glenys Kinnock]] (née Parry) in the early 1960s whilst studying at [[University College, Cardiff]], where they were known as "the power and the glory" (Glenys being the power), and they married on 25 March 1967.<ref>{{cite news
|url=https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2009/jun/05/profile-alan-sugar-glenys-kinnock
|title=New faces: Alan Sugar and Glenys Kinnock
|date=5 June 2009
|first1=Julia
|last1=Finch
|author-link2=Michael White (journalist)
|first2=Michael
|last2=White
|work=The Guardian
|location=UK
|access-date=8 June 2009
|archive-date=6 March 2016
|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160306014842/http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2009/jun/05/profile-alan-sugar-glenys-kinnock
|url-status=live
}}</ref> His wife was the UK's Minister for Africa and the [[United Nations]] from 2009–2010, and a Labour [[Member of the European Parliament]] (MEP) from 1994–2009. When she was made a [[life peer]] in 2009, they became one of the few couples both to hold titles in their own right. Previously living together in [[Peterston-super-Ely]], a village near the western outskirts of [[Cardiff]], in 2008 they relocated to [[Tufnell Park]], [[London]], to be closer to their daughter and grandchildren.<ref>''Camden New Journal'', 10 January 2008, p.10.</ref> Glenys' death was announced on 3 December 2023.<ref>{{cite news |url= https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-67606751 |title= Glenys Kinnock: Former minister and campaigner dies aged 79 |date= 3 December 2023 |website= [[BBC News]] |accessdate= 3 December 2023 |archive-date= 3 December 2023 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20231203142424/https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-67606751 |url-status= live }}</ref>

They have a son, [[Stephen Kinnock|Stephen]] and a daughter, Rachel.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4161/is_20010722/ai_n14535294/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110511023141/http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4161/is_20010722/ai_n14535294/ |url-status=dead |archive-date=11 May 2011 |title=Kinnock gives his girl away |publisher=[[Sunday Mirror]] |date=21 July 2002 |access-date=29 September 2010 |first=James |last=Harper }}</ref>  Neil Kinnock, through his son Stephen, is also the father-in-law of [[Helle Thorning-Schmidt]] who was [[Prime Minister of Denmark]] from 2011 to 2015.

On 26 April 2006, Kinnock was given a six-month driving ban after being found guilty of two speeding offences along the [[M4 motorway]], west of London.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/wales/4947284.stm|title=Neil Kinnock banned from driving|work=BBC News|date=26 April 2006|access-date=29 September 2010|archive-date=16 October 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131016012335/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/wales/4947284.stm|url-status=live}}</ref>

Kinnock is a [[Cardiff City F.C.]] fan and regularly attends matches.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/c/cardiff_city/1944739.stm|title=Cardiff's Sunday quest|work=BBC News|date=23 April 2002|access-date=29 September 2010|archive-date=2 March 2003|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20030302014957/http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/c/cardiff_city/1944739.stm|url-status=live}}</ref> He is also a follower of [[rugby union]] and supports [[London Welsh RFC]] at club level, regularly attending [[Wales national rugby union team|Wales]] games.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.london-welsh.co.uk/index.php?mod=news_view&id=1734 |title=London Welsh Rugby Club Oxford – News |access-date=13 June 2017 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130916181721/http://www.london-welsh.co.uk/index.php?mod=news_view&id=1734 |archive-date=16 September 2013 }}</ref>

He was portrayed by both [[Chris Barrie]] and [[Steve Coogan]] in the satirical TV programme ''[[Spitting Image]]'', and by Euan Cuthbertson in the Scottish film ''[[In Search of La Che]]''.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/character/ch0034631/|title=Neil Kinnock (Character)|website=[[IMDb]]|access-date=1 July 2018|archive-date=7 March 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160307234216/http://www.imdb.com/character/ch0034631/|url-status=dead}}</ref>

In 2014, Lord Kinnock was painted by artist [[Edward Sutcliffe]]. The portrait was exhibited at the [[Royal Society of Portrait Painters]] Annual Exhibition that year.<ref>{{cite news |title=New portrait of Neil Kinnock unveiled |url=https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/new-portrait-neil-kinnock-unveiled-7062163 |access-date=6 April 2021 |publisher=Wales Online |date=2 May 2014 |archive-date=5 April 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230405022724/https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/new-portrait-neil-kinnock-unveiled-7062163 |url-status=live }}</ref>

Kinnock has been described as an [[agnostic]]<ref name=agnostic1>{{cite web
 |url=http://www.ffrf.org/day/?day=28&month=3 
 |title=Free thought of the Day 
 |date=28 March 2009 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130414210330/http://ffrf.org/news/day/?day=28&month=3 
 |archive-date=14 April 2013 |url-status=dead 
}}</ref> and an [[atheist]].<ref name=atheist1>{{cite news|last1=Crawley|first1=William|title=Should we keep God out of politics?|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/legacy/ni/2010/10/should_we_keep_god_out_of_poli.html|access-date=16 March 2015|publisher=British Broadcasting Corporation|date=1 October 2010|quote=The Labour Party has been led by three self-avowed "public" atheists: Michael Foot, Neil Kinnock, and now Ed Miliband.|archive-date=16 March 2015|archive-url=https://archive.today/20150316203136/http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/legacy/ni/2010/10/should_we_keep_god_out_of_poli.html|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref name=atheist2>{{cite web|title=Ed Miliband: he may be an atheist, but is he a secularist?|url=http://www.secularism.org.uk/ed-miliband-he-may-be-an-atheist.html|publisher=National Secular Society|access-date=16 March 2015|date=1 October 2010|quote=Almost at once, the God-squad went into action. The Christian Institute's hysteria index rose to bursting point and the ''Daily Mail'' reminded Mr Miliband that other leaders of the Labour Party who professed atheism (Neil Kinnock and Michael Foot) never got to Number 10.|archive-date=2 April 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150402123037/http://www.secularism.org.uk/ed-miliband-he-may-be-an-atheist.html|url-status=dead}}</ref> He is a Patron of [[Humanists UK]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://humanism.org.uk/about/our-people/patrons/rt-hon-lord-kinnock-pc/|title=The Rt. Hon. The Lord Kinnock PC|publisher=British Humanist Association|access-date=7 September 2015|date=22 October 2013|archive-date=16 October 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151016020659/https://humanism.org.uk/about/our-people/patrons/rt-hon-lord-kinnock-pc/|url-status=live}}</ref>