22 Facts About Mims Davies

Mims Davies previously served as MP for Eastleigh from 2015 to 2019 and MP for Mid Sussex from 2019 to 2024.

Mims Davies previously served in various ministerial positions between 2018 and 2024.

Mims Davies was first elected to Parliament as MP for Eastleigh in May 2015.

Mims Davies was the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Wales and Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Sport, Civil Society and Loneliness in Theresa May's government from 2018 to 2019.

Mims Davies was elected in the 2019 general election as the MP for Mid Sussex.

Mims Davies resigned as Employment Minister in July 2022, after losing confidence in Johnson's leadership.

Mims Davies was re-elected to Parliament in 2024 after standing in the newly established East Grinstead and Uckfield constituency.

Mims Davies was educated at the fee-paying Royal Russell School in Croydon, and the state-sector Collyers Sixth Form College in Horsham, West Sussex.

Mims Davies then studied Politics and International Relations at Swansea University, being the first in her family to enter higher education.

Mims Davies later worked as a road safety communications officer with the Automobile Association, the police force, and Sussex Safer Roads Partnership.

Mims Davies served as a Conservative Party town councillor for Haywards Heath Town Council and as a District councillor on Mid Sussex District Council for the Haywards Heath Lucastes ward from 2011 to 2015.

Mims Davies campaigned for the UK to leave the European Union during the 2016 referendum.

Mims Davies was appointed an Assistant Government Whip on 9 January 2018.

On 5 November 2018, Mims Davies was appointed Minister for Sport and Civil Society at the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, after the resignation of Tracey Crouch over a delay to the introduction of reduced limits on the stakes of fixed-odds betting terminals.

Mims Davies suggested there should be a zero tolerance approach to problems concerning racist, homophobic and antisemitic chanting.

Mims Davies announced on 30 October 2019 that she would be standing down as MP for Eastleigh in order to spend more time with her children; she later announced she was to be on the shortlist for Mid Sussex.

On 8 July 2024, Mims Davies was appointed as Shadow Minister for Women and Equalities for Rishi Sunak's shadow cabinet.

Mims Davies was appointed to the role of Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Wales on 26 July 2018.

Whilst at the Wales Office, Mims Davies helped deliver the North Wales Growth Deal and the abolition of the Severn Bridge tolls.

Mims Davies was a carer to her two elderly parents before becoming an MP, which she has said "informed a significant portion of her parliamentary work".

Mims Davies is a keen runner and has completed several long-distance races, including the 2017 London Marathon.

Mims Davies married her husband, who is Welsh, in 2000.