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Alex Davies-Jones

Alexandra Davies-Jones (born 5 April 1989) is a Welsh Labour Party politician who has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Pontypridd since 2019. She has served as Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Victims since July 2024. She previously served as Shadow Minister for Domestic Violence and Safeguarding from November 2023 to July 2024.

Alexandra Davies was born on 5 April 1989 in Church Village. She is the daughter of a miner, stating that she was "brought up on the values of socialism". She attended Tonyrefail Primary School, Tonyrefail Comprehensive School and graduated from Cardiff University with a joint honours degree in law and politics.

Davies-Jones was a youth representative for the Labour Party, Co-operative Party, and the trade union Unite the Union.

She began her career as a researcher in the House of Commons and the National Assembly for Wales. Davies-Jones was a Regional Development Consultant for the Electoral Reform Society from 2010 to 2011. She then worked as a communications and press officer for Wales and the West Midlands at the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors from 2013 to 2015. She worked for the non-profit Dwr Cymru Welsh Water as a regional communications director and then a community engagement manager from 2015 to 2019.

Davies-Jones was elected as a community councillor for Tonyrefail and District Community Council in 2012, at the age of 23, sitting alongside her father and husband who both were community councillors. In 2017 she was elected as a county councillor for the ward of Tonyrefail West on Rhondda Cynon Taf Council.

Following Owen Smith's announcement that he would not seek re-election, having previously mounted an unsuccessful 2016 Labour Party leadership challenge against Jeremy Corbyn, Davies-Jones was selected as the Labour candidate for Pontypridd in 2019.

At the 2019 general election, Davies-Jones was elected to Parliament as MP for Pontypridd with 44.5% of the vote and a majority of 5,890.

During her time in opposition, Davies-Jones held several shadow ministerial positions. She served as Shadow Minister for Northern Ireland from February 2021 to December 2021, before becoming Shadow Minister for Tech, Gambling and Digital Economy from December 2021 to November 2023.

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