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Ex-Welsh Secretary defects to Reform UK
Western Mail
|July 09, 2025
A FORMER Conservative cabinet minister has announced he is now backing Reform UK as the party that now “best represents my views’.
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David Jones, pictured, who served as Welsh Secretary under David Cameron between 2012 and 2014, announced he was joining Nigel Farage’s party after more than 50 years as a Tory.
‘The former Clwyd West MP described the move as “a very difficult decision for me” and said he had written to the Conservatives in October to say he would not renew his membership, but received no reply.
He said: “I joined the Conservatives all those years ago because I believed it was the party that best reflected my values and beliefs. Regrettably, that is no longer the case.
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