Alex Davies-Jones is the Labour MP for Pontypridd, having first been elected to parliament at the 2019 general election. She is currently the parliamentary under-secretary of state for victims at the Ministry of Justice.

In the 2024 general election, Davies-Jones won 16,225 votes, representing 41.2% of the vote. The Reform UK candidate, Steven Bayliss, received 7,823 votes (19.9%), while the Plaid Cymru candidate, William Rees, secured 5,275 votes (13.4%). Alex Davies-Jones was duly elected with a majority of 8,402 votes.

The Pontypridd constituency is located in South Wales, covering areas north west of Cardiff including the town of Pontypridd. It includes the county town of Rhondda Cynon Taf and the University of South Wales campus. While the constituency boundaries changed in 2024, the area it covers has been a safe Labour seat since the Second World War.

Davies-Jones succeeded Owen Smith as the MP for Pontypridd, A former frontbencher, Smith stood for his party’s leadership in 2016, challenging Jeremy Corbyn after the incumbent suffered a no-confidence vote among Labour MPs. He was soundly defeated, securing only 38.2% of the vote.

Political Career

Davies-Jones currently serves as parliamentary under-secretary of state in the Ministry of Justice. She was appointed to this role in July 2026, following the Labour leadership contest and Andy Burnham’s elevation as prime minister.

Davies-Jones served as parliamentary under-secretary of state for victims, also in the Ministry of Justice, from July 2024 to May 2026.

In May 2026, Davies-Jones resigned and called for Keir Starmer to step down as prime minister. The move followed the 2026 local elections and devolved elections to the Scottish Parliament and Senedd Cymru. In resigning, Davies-Jones joined a rebellion of around 100 Labour MPs calling for Starmer’s departure.

In her letter of resignation, Davies-Jones said: “The scale of the electoral defeats at the Senedd Cymru and across the United Kingdom have been catastrophic.

“The country has spoken and we must listen. We waited 14 years to get into power and change the lives of those we represent…

“I implore you to act in the country’s interest and set out a timetable for your departure.”

Davies-Jones further outlined the reasons behind her departure in a speech in the House of Commons on 3 June 2026.

She told the House: “I sought to use my position in government to advocate for victims, but when we are forced to fight tooth and nail simply to have those voices heard, something is not working as it should. That is why I took the difficult but necessary decision to resign…

“As a survivor, I struggle to understand why prime minister Keir Starmer appointed Peter Mandelson when his association with Jeffrey Epstein had long been publicly known. For survivors, this raises serious questions about whether the lessons of the Epstein scandal have truly been learned.”

Davies Jones said the government “appeared more interested in cultivating relationships with tech elites than listening to the warnings about harms being experienced by women, girls and young people every single day.”

Prior to the 2024 general election, which saw Labour return to power after 14 years in opposition, Davies-Jones held several shadow ministerial roles, including shadow minister for domestic violence and safeguarding (November 2023 – May 2024), shadow minister for tech, gambling and the digital economy (December 2021 – November 2023) and shadow minister for Northern Ireland (February – December 2021).

In February 2023, Davies-Jones apologised after she was found to have committed a “minor and inadvertent” breach of lobbying rules. Davies-Jones, then a shadow culture minister, asked a commons question about the British Council, external the day after returning from a trip to Japan funded by the body.

She accepted the error in correspondence with the parliamentary commissioner for standards, Daniel Greenberg. The commons standards committee recommended that Davies-Jones should face no further action.

The committee’s report, which recommended no further action, stated: “This was a minor and inadvertent breach of the code. Ms Davies-Jones has apologised to the commissioner for breaching the rules.”

In the 2022-2023 parliamentary session, Davies introduced the Fertility Treatment (Transparency) Bill, which aimed to increase transparency in the provision of IVF treatment, specifically requiring providers to publish information about NHS-funded cycles and additional treatments.

In June 2023, Davies-Jones said she had been “bombarded” with abuse after she highlighted influencer Andrew Tate’s “toxic” effect on schoolboys.

During a January 2023 session of prime minister’s questions (PMQs), Davies-Jones raised the influence of Tate, telling MPs: “Teachers are now having to develop their own resources to re-educate boys who are being brainwashed online by his deeply toxic messaging.”

Davies-Jones went on to criticise Rishi Sunak, the then prime minister, for being “too slow to recognise the damage this is causing”.

“What is his government doing to tackle this misogyny? This incel culture? And the radicalisation of young men in this country? Will he [Sunak] commit to giving teachers the resources they need to address this problem head on?”, she asked.

Speaking during a later commons debate on neighbourhood policing, Davies-Jones reflected on the reaction to her PMQs contribution. She told the House: “I’d like to put on record my own thanks to … all of the local police in my south Wales area who have been an immense support to me in the recent weeks after I have spoken out about the horrendous abuse and behaviour of Andrew Tate online.

“As a result, my own inbox and my office have been bombarded with death threats, rape threats.”

In June 2025, two individuals, constituents in the Pontypridd constituency, were convicted of harassing Davies-Jones. The pair had filmed a confrontation with Davies-Jones, while she was campaigning in Treforest, Rhondda Cynon Taf, during the 2024 general election. In evidence she gave during the trial, Davies-Jones said she was “terrified” after being confronted.

The activists were said to have been distributing leaflets which described Davies-Jones as a “full-blown supporter of this genocide” – referring to the Israel-Hamas conflict.

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In November 2025, the two activists had their convictions overturned.

Davies-Jones was a member of the culture media and sport committee from May 2020 to March 2022 and the women and equalities committee from March 2020 to February 2022.

Davies-Jones delivered her maiden speech on 15 January 2020 during a debate on a green industrial revolution. In it, she said: “Pontypridd, my home, is also the home of local legends – not just my mam, but the legends of Tom Jones and Wales’s most feared and capped prop-forward, Gethin Jenkins.

“Whilst I was tempted to construct this speech around the lyrics of Sir Tom, I did not have the same temptation when it came to Geth’s on-field banter.”

She added: “For too long the government hasn’t given Pontypridd the investment and attention it deserves and I will be doing everything I can to be a strong, proud voice for the town I was born and bred in.”

Before entering parliament, Davies-Jones worked as a parliamentary researcher in the House of Commons (including for her predecessor as the MP for Pontypridd, Owen Smith) and for Welsh Assembly Member, Mick Antoniw.

She was elected as a community councillor for Tonyrefail in 2012 and later as a councillor on Rhondda Cynon Taf Council representing Tonyrefail West from 2017 to 2022.

Political views

In an interview with The House magazine, published February 2020, Davies-Jones said that she classifies herself “as a socialist”. She added: “Labour values are the values of my family.”

Referring to her politics, Davies-Jones said: “If you had to say where I was, I’m probably left of centre, but I wouldn’t say I’m a Blairite or a Corbynite, or whatever the Starmer supporters are called. I’m a member of the Labour party.”

She also stated that she was an admirer of US Democratic congressman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Jacinda Arden, the then-prime minister of New Zealand

Davies-Jones has said she was brought up on the “values of socialism and the importance of trade unionism.”

Leadership elections and loyalty

Labour leadership 2020: Davies-Jones was one of 22 Labour who nominated Emily Thornberry for the party’s leadership in early 2020. The election was triggered by the resignation of Jeremy Corbyn following the party’s defeat in the 2019 general election, which resulted in Labour’s fewest seats in the House of Commons since 1935.

Thornberry, then the shadow foreign secretary, was one of five candidates to reach the second stage of the contest. However, she was eliminated from the race on 15 February 2020 after failing to secure the required 33 nominations from Constituency Labour Parties (CLPs) or three affiliated groups. This left Keir Starmer, Rebecca Long-Bailey, and Lisa Nandy as the three candidates on the final membership ballot.

Welfare

Welfare vote (July 2025): Davies-Jones voted in favour of the government’s flagship welfare bill at second reading. The vote came after ministers agreed to significant concessions to avoid defeat via a mass rebellion of Labour MPs on 1 July 2025.

Assisted dying

Davies-Jones voted in favour of the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill, better known as the assisted dying bill, at both second reading (November 2024) and third reading (June 2025).

In a social media post setting out her position, published following the bill’s second reading, Davies-Jones said she had “decided to vote in accordance with what the majority of people who contacted me asked for, and with my own conscience in believing in the right to choose.”

Social values and conscience issues

Abortion decriminalisation (2025): Davies-Jones voted in favour of a backbench amendment to the Crime and Policing Bill that sought to decriminalise abortion in England and Wales in June 2025. The amendment, which was passed by a majority of 242 votes, removed women from the threat of prosecution for ending a pregnancy at any stage. As an issue of conscience, MPs were allowed to vote according to their personal beliefs.

Before Politics

Born Alexandra Davies on 5 April 1989 in Church Village, Wales, she grew up in Tonyrefail. She is the daughter of a miner, who was involved with the National Union of Mineworkers.

She was a youth representative for the Labour Party, Co-operative Party, as well as the trade union Unite the Union.

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

She joined the Labour Party as a student.

After graduating, she helped with the Yes! To Fairer Votes campaign during the 2011 Alternative Vote (AV) referendum.

Her career before parliament included roles as a Regional Development Consultant for the Electoral Reform Society (2010-2011), a communications and press officer for the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors (2013-2015), and a regional communications director and community engagement manager for Dŵr Cymru Welsh Water (2015-2019).

Personal Life

Davies-Jones married Andrew Davies-Jones in 2014. She has one son and two stepsons.

Davies-Jones has said she is the daughter of a “WASPI woman” – meaning her mother was affected by the increase in the state pension age due to the Pensions Act 1995 and Pensions Act 2011. Davies-Jones has supported the WASPI campaign, which stands for Women Against State Pension Inequality, calling for compensation to be provided. (In late 2024, the government announced it would not provide financial compensation to women affected by changes to the state pension age).

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In January 2021, Davies-Jones spoke publicly about her experience with cervical cancer. Writing in the i paper, Davies-Jones said she was invited for her first routine screening in December 2015 and “like so many others, I put it off”.

She wrote: “I used all of the usual excuses that you may have heard before. I was simply too busy, I couldn’t get an appointment and I had no symptoms or abnormalities that were worrying me.”

Trivia

Davies-Jones was elected as a community councillor aged 23, sitting alongside her husband and father.

She spent early years training as an Air Cadet and sang in the National Youth Choir for Wales. She is a patron of the Tonyrefail Ladies’ Choir.