Mandy Jones is a Welsh politician who was a

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(MS) for

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from 2017 to

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. Jones was elected for the

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(UKIP) but sat as an

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within the Senedd from early January 2018 until May 2019, when she joined the

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(Reform UK). In October 2020 she joined the

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group.

Background

Jones was born in

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and worked as a farm contractor and

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in north east

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. She studied

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& Small Animal Care at Llysfasi College. She brought up her family in the

Corwen Corwen is a town and community in the county of Denbighshire in Wales. Historically, Corwen is part of the county of Merionethshire. Corwen stands on the banks of the River Dee beneath the Berwyn mountains. The town is situated west of Llango ...

area.

Political career

Jones stood for UKIP in the Clwyd South constituency at the 2015 General Election. She also stood for UKIP in Clwyd South at the 2016 Welsh Assembly election, coming fourth behind

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, the

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and

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. As the third UKIP candidate on the

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regional

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, she failed to secure a

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seat. Following the resignation in December 2017 of former UKIP Assembly Member (AM),

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, Jones (as the next available UKIP candidate on the regional list) was confirmed on 27 December as the replacement AM. She was due to actively take up her duties following an

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swearing ceremony, which took place on 29 December at the Welsh Assembly's

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buildings. On 9 January 2018, UKIP Wales announced that she would not be joining the UKIP group in the Assembly, due to employing members of other parties in her office. Jones refused to change her staff and described the UKIP group as "toxic". She describes herself as a Faragist and claims former UKIP leader

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supports her actions. Her party membership was suspended on 18 June 2018 following criticism of Neil Hamilton's nomination as an assembly commissioner. In March 2019, Jones spoke in the Assembly Chamber about the

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and

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she suffered from her adopted mother, in opposition to the Welsh Government's proposals to ban the smacking of children. In May 2019, Jones along with three other Assembly Members joined the

and formed an assembly group in the

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, led by Mark Reckless. In mid October 2020 she formed a new group in the Senedd, the

, together with fellow MSs David Rowlands and

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. In the

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, Jones contested Clwyd South for

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. She was unsuccessful in getting elected, and did not stand as a candidate for the North Wales Region.

Electoral history

2015 general election

2016 Assembly election

Constituency

Regional list

Jones was placed third on the North Wales regional list for the

, behind

and

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References

External links

Official webpage

Mandy Jones
on

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Jones, Mandy Living people Year of birth missing (living people) UK Independence Party members of the Senedd Reform UK members of the Senedd Female members of the Senedd Wales MSs 2016–2021 Politicians from Denbighshire People from Wolverhampton UK Independence Party parliamentary candidates Welsh farmers Welsh politicians