Jackie Jones | |
---|---|
Member of the European Parliament for Wales | |
In office 2 July 2019 –31 January 2020 | |
Preceded by | Derek Vaughan |
Succeeded by | Constituency abolished |
Personal details | |
Born | 10 February 1966 UK |
Political party | Labour Party |
Profession | Politician,Barrister,Academic |
Website | https://www.jackiejones.wales/ |
Jacqueline Margarete Jones (born 10 February 1966) is a Welsh politician,barrister,and academic. She served as the Labour Party Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for Wales from 2019 [1] [2] to 2020. She taught law at Cardiff Law School,Cardiff University,and then at Bristol Law School,University of the West of England,where she was Professor of Feminist Legal Studies. [3]
Jackie has lived in Cardiff and Pembrokeshire since 1985. [4]
Jones has been researching and teaching law for over 20 years,first at Cardiff Law School,then at Bristol Law School,UWE. Her main teaching and research interests lie in the areas of gender,migration,asylum process,human trafficking,violence against women,all within a human rights perspective. [5]
Jones was previously the Chair of the Wales Assembly of Women and President of the European Women Lawyers Association,and worked with various equalities organisations,including Welsh Women's Aid and the National Alliance of Women's Organisations. [5]
Jones was the Labour MEP for Wales in the European Parliament from July 2019 to January 2020,when the UK withdrew from the European Union. Within the European Parliament,Jones was a member of the Legal Affairs Committee,the Women's Rights and Gender Equality Committee,and a substitute member of the Transport and Tourism Committee,as well as first Vice-Chair of the Delegation for relations with the United States. [6] Jones also founded the Wales-EU Parliamentary Friendship Group which focused on strengthening Welsh-EU relations and providing a platform for Welsh citizens' rights and interests at the European level post-Brexit. [7]
Jones stood for the Labour Party in Preseli Pembrokeshire at the 2021 Senedd election. [8]
Since May 2022 Jones has been a county councillor on Cardiif Council for the Whitchurch &Tongwylais ward.
In September 2023 she was selected prospective parliamentary candidate for Ceredigion Preseli at the 2024 general election. [9]
Mair Eluned Morgan, Baroness Morgan of Ely is a Welsh Labour politician serving as Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care in the Welsh Government since 2021. Morgan has served as a Member of the House of Lords since 2011 and as a Member of the Senedd (MS) since 2016. She was previously Minister for the Welsh Language from 2017 to 2021, Minister for Mental Health and Wellbeing from 2020 to 2021, and a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) from 1994 to 2009.
Preseli Pembrokeshire was a seat and constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.
Politics in Wales forms a distinctive polity in the wider politics of the United Kingdom, with Wales as one of the four constituent countries of the United Kingdom (UK).
There are four types of elections in Wales: elections to the House of Commons of the United Kingdom, elections to the devolved Senedd, local elections to community councils and the 22 principal areas, and the Police and Crime Commissioner elections. In addition there are by-elections for each aforementioned election. Elections are held on Election Day, which is conventionally a Thursday. Three of these four types of elections are held after fixed periods; the exception is UK general elections, the timing of which is at the discretion of the prime minister of the United Kingdom. Senedd elections may be postponed to avoid elections to the UK parliament and Senedd coinciding with each other.
Brecon and Radnorshire is a constituency of the Senedd. It elects one Member of the Senedd by the first past the post method of election. Also, however, it is one of eight constituencies in the Mid and West Wales electoral region, which elects four additional members, in addition to eight constituency members, to produce a degree of proportional representation for the region as a whole. It is currently represented by James Evans MS, of the Conservatives who has been the MS since May 2021.
Carmarthen East and Dinefwr is a constituency of the Senedd. It elects one Member of the Senedd by the first past the post method of election. It is one of eight constituencies in the Mid and West Wales electoral region, which elects four additional members, in addition to eight constituency members, to produce a degree of proportional representation for the region as a whole.
Carmarthen West and South Pembrokeshire is a constituency of the Senedd. It elects one Member of the Senedd by the first past the post method of election. In addition, it is one of eight constituencies in the Mid and West Wales electoral region, which elects four additional members, in addition to eight constituency members, to produce a degree of proportional representation for the region as a whole.
Ceredigion is a constituency of the Senedd. It elects one Member of the Senedd by the first past the post method of election. It is also one of eight constituencies in the Mid and West Wales electoral region, which elects four additional members, in addition to eight constituency members, to produce a degree of proportional representation for the region as a whole.
Preseli Pembrokeshire is a constituency of the Senedd. It elects one Member of the Senedd by the first past the post method of election. It is also one of eight constituencies in the Mid and West Wales electoral region, which elects four additional members, in addition to eight constituency members, to produce a degree of proportional representation for the region as a whole.
Llanelli is a constituency of the Senedd. It elects one Member of the Senedd by the first past the post method of election. Also, however, it is one of eight constituencies in the Mid and West Wales electoral region, which elects four additional members, in addition to eight constituency members, to produce a degree of proportional representation for the region as a whole.
Welsh independence is the political movement advocating for Wales to become a sovereign state, independent from the United Kingdom.
Paul Windsor Davies is a British politician who has served as Member of the Senedd (MS) for Preseli Pembrokeshire since 2007. He served as Leader of the Welsh Conservatives and Leader of the Opposition in Wales from June 2018 to January 2021, resigning after possible breaches of Welsh COVID-19 rules. He had previously been Deputy Leader from 2011 to 2018 and Acting Leader in 2011 and 2018.
Elizabeth Joyce Watson is a Welsh Labour politician who has been a Member of the Senedd (MS) for Mid and West Wales since 2007.
These are the results of the 2005 United Kingdom general election in Wales. The election was held on 5 May 2005 and all 40 seats in Wales were contested.
The 2021 Senedd election took place on Thursday 6 May 2021 to elect 60 members to the Senedd. It was the sixth devolved general election since the Senedd was established in 1999. The election was held alongside the Scottish Parliament election, English local elections, London Assembly and mayoral election and the Hartlepool by-election.
Jane Dodds is a Welsh politician who has served as Leader of the Welsh Liberal Democrats since 2017. She was elected as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Brecon and Radnorshire at the seat's 2019 by-election, but was an MP for only three months before being defeated in the general election later the same year. In May 2021, Dodds was elected to the Senedd on the Mid and West Wales list. She is the only Liberal Democrat MS in the Senedd.
The 2019 United Kingdom general election was held on 12 December 2019 to elect all 650 members of the House of Commons, including the 40 Welsh seats.
The 2024 general election is scheduled to be held on Thursday, 4 July 2024. Thirty-two seats will be up for election in Wales as the general election will occur after the recently completed boundary review took effect.
The 2024 Welsh Labour leadership election took place between February and March 2024 to select Mark Drakeford's successor as leader of Welsh Labour, who in turn would become First Minister of Wales. Drakeford announced his resignation and retirement on 13 December 2023, five years after his election. Voting began in February 2024 with the new leader announced on 16 March 2024. Vaughan Gething won the election with 51.7% of the vote. The next scheduled Senedd election is due on or before 7 May 2026.