In 2010, Wigley was granted life peerage, taking his seat in the House of Lords in 2011.

[1] Before becoming a Plaid Cymru MP for Caernarfon, Wigley worked for Ford Motor Company, Mars and Hoover.

The election for president was seen as instrumental in deciding the future direction of Plaid Cymru.

In 1981 Wigley won the presidency, but Elis Thomas had greater influence over the party's ideology throughout the 1980s.

[4] He secured a Plaid Cymru nomination for a peerage alongside Eurfyl ap Gwilym and Janet Davies.