James Davies

James Michael Davies (born 27 February 1980) is a British Conservative Party politician serving as the Member of Parliament (MP) for the Vale of Clwyd since 2019, having previously held the seat from 2015 to 2017. He has been serving as Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Wales since October 2022. Early life and career Davies was born in St Asaph in his constituency, tracing his lineage there back seven generations. He was educated at the private King's School, Chester before going on to study at Christ's College, Cambridge, gaining three degrees: a BA, a MB BChir in 2004, and an MA in 2005. He is a Member of the Royal College of General Practitioners, specialising in dementia. Davies was elected to Denbighshire County Council in 2004, remaining a member until 2015. He represented the Prestatyn East ward. He was on the party list in North Wales at the 2007 National Assembly for Wales election. Parliamentary career At the 2015 general election, he was elected as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Vale of Clwyd with 39% of the vote, ahead of incumbent Chris Ruane of Labour on 38.4%. Ruane had held the seat for 18 years, and Davies received 237 more votes than his opponent. He lost his seat at the 2017 United Kingdom general election, but returned to Parliament at the 2019 election. In September 2020, Davies received criticism on social media for asking Prime Minister Boris Johnson to comment on the news that the 2020 series of I'm A Celebrity...Get Me Out Of Here! would be filmed in Gwrych Castle in Abergele, North Wales instead of New South Wales Australia, during a Prime Minister's Questions session that was otherwise dominated by question's relating to the government's coronavirus response.