21 Facts About Alex Davies-Jones

Alexandra Davies-Jones was born on 5 April 1989 and is a Welsh Labour Party politician who has been the Member of Parliament for Pontypridd since 2019.

Alex Davies-Jones has served as Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Victims since July 2024.

Alex Davies-Jones previously served as Shadow Minister for Domestic Violence and Safeguarding from November 2023 to July 2024.

Alex Davies-Jones is the daughter of a miner, stating that she was "brought up on the values of socialism".

Alex Davies-Jones attended Tonyrefail Primary School, Tonyrefail Comprehensive School and graduated from Cardiff University with a joint honours degree in law and politics.

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

Alex Davies-Jones began her career as a researcher in the House of Commons and the National Assembly for Wales.

Alex Davies-Jones was a Regional Development Consultant for the Electoral Reform Society from 2010 to 2011.

Alex Davies-Jones 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.

Alex Davies-Jones worked for the non-profit Dwr Cymru Welsh Water as a regional communications director and then a community engagement manager from 2015 to 2019.

Alex Davies-Jones was elected as a councillor for Tonyrefail Community Council in 2012, at the age of 23, and for Rhondda Cynon Taf Council in 2017.

Alex Davies-Jones spoke publicly about threats she received in January 2023 after she raised the issue of Andrew Tate's influence over school behaviour in boys.

In February 2023 following on investigation by the Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards, Alex Davies-Jones was found to have breached the Code of Conduct for Members in relation to asking a parliamentary question about the British Council.

Alex Davies-Jones had taken part in a British Council funded trip to Japan the previous autumn.

Alex Davies-Jones apologised and following the report's determination that the breach was "minor and inadvertent", the Commons Select Committee on Standards took no further action.

Alex Davies-Jones is a parliamentary supporter of Labour Friends of Israel and was part of a delegation to the country in February 2023.

Alex Davies-Jones told the organisers she could no longer participate as a result of threats from another candidate, and was acting on police advice not to attend the event.

On 29 June 2024, two constituents were arrested after Alex Davies-Jones filed a complaint of "intimidation" in response to an online video of them asking her why she had abstained on a SNP motion for a ceasefire in Gaza.

In November 2024, Alex Davies-Jones voted in favour of the Terminally Ill Adults Bill, which proposes to legalise assisted suicide.

Alex Davies-Jones has two stepsons, Blake and Kieran, and a son, Sullivan, with her husband, Andrew, whom she married in 2014.

In January 2021, Alex Davies-Jones talked to BBC News about her experiences of cervical cancer.