Thomas Alun Rhys Davies (born 12 February 1964) is a Welsh Labour and Co-operative party politician serving as the Member of the Senedd (MS) for Blaenau Gwent since 2011, and formerly Mid and West Wales from 2007 to 2011.

Davies previously worked as a public affairs consultant, and began his political career in Plaid Cymru before joining Welsh Labour.

He was sacked from his Cabinet role in 2014 for pressuring civil servants to reveal private information about opposition Members, shortly after facing calls to resign after an investigation determined he had breached the Ministerial Code on a separate issue.

After taking some years out of politics to pursue his professional career he was selected as Labour's candidate in Ceredigion at the 2005 general election.

On 13 May 2011 Davies was appointed Deputy Minister for Agriculture, Food, Fisheries and European Programmes in the Welsh Government.

[12] In 2005, while Labour's candidate for Ceredigion, he clashed with Welsh actor Rhys Ifans at a Cardiff hotel over support for the Iraq War.

We believe that this is an indicator of problems at the heart of financial management and planning of this department and we will continue to keep a very close eye on these issues both in-year and at future budget rounds.

In the Spring of 2014 he confessed to entering into a relationship with his own special advisor, Anna McMorrin, and confirmed that both had left their long-term partners as a result.

[16] In an investigation undertaken by Permanent Secretary Derek Jones, his report published on 1 July 2014 concluded that Davies had breached the Ministerial Code.

[18] On 8 July 2014 he was sacked by First Minister Carwyn Jones following his repeated written requests to his civil servants for the private details of Common Agricultural Policy payments made to opposition members, including: Andrew RT Davies (Leader, Welsh Conservatives); Antoinette Sandbach (Conservative); Kirsty Williams (Leader, Welsh Liberal Democrats); William Powell (Welsh Liberal Democrats); and Llyr Gruffydd (Plaid Cymru).