David Ian Jones25 Jan 2024 16:49
David Ian Jones (born 22 March 1952) is a British politician and former solicitor serving as the Deputy Chairman of the European Research Group since March 2020 and as Member of Parliament (MP) for Clwyd West since 2005. A member of the Conservative Party, he has held several ministerial posts in Westminster; most recently as Minister of State at the Department for Exiting the European Union.[citation needed]
He is the first Secretary of State for Wales to have served as an Assembly Member,[3] as well as the first Conservative officeholder to represent a Welsh constituency since Nicholas Edwards (1979β1987).[4] In 2016, Jones joined the political advisory board of Leave Means Leave.[5]