He was formerly a member of Plaid Cymru, but left in 2017 after attempting to form a council administration in Conwy containing Welsh Conservatives,[1] which the national party would not allow.

[2] Prior to winning the Aberconwy constituency he was the cabinet member for finance and resources and the leader of the Plaid Cymru party group on Conwy County Borough Council.

A former headmaster of Ysgol John Bright, Llandudno's secondary school, he graduated with a BA from the University of Wales, Swansea.

Jones mainly campaigned in the run up to the election against potential downgrading[4] of services at Ysbyty Llandudno hospital[5] (as well as against the proposed Gwynt-y-Môr off-shore windfarm[6] and for affordable housing).

[3] Prior to winning the Aberconwy constituency he was the cabinet member for finance and resources and the leader of the Plaid Cymru party group on Conwy County Borough Council.

[10] Jones therefore left Plaid Cymru, and ran a minority administration of independents and Welsh Conservative councillors,[11] with informal confidence and supply from the local Liberal Democrats.