Ifor Huw Irranca-Davies[1] (né Davies; born 22 January 1963) is a Welsh Labour and Co-operative politician who has served as Deputy First Minister of Wales since August 2024, and as Cabinet Secretary for Climate Change and Rural Affairs since March 2024.

He campaigned as a boy in general elections for his step great-uncle, Ifor Davies, MP for Gower and deputy to Cledwyn Hughes at the Welsh Office during Harold Wilson's government.

He attended Gowerton Comprehensive School (where his mother was a secretary), and later earned a BA (Hons) at Crewe and Alsager College, and an MSc from Swansea Metropolitan University.

[5] In the by-election of 14 February 2002 he was elected to represent the Ogmore constituency in the South Wales Valleys (a Labour seat since 1918), following the death of MP and Government Whip Sir Ray Powell.

[citation needed] Irranca-Davies has spoken in the House of Commons on topics as varied as international trade union rights, compulsory voting, anti-social behaviour, renewable energy and climate change, fair trade, social justice and poverty and inequality.

He served as Chair of the All Party Group for the Recognition of Munitions Workers which aims "work with the government to find a means of recognising those munitions workers who served during the first and second world wars"[15] On 19 June 2015, Irranca-Davies was elected to the chairmanship of the Environmental Audit Select Committee.

[27][28] In July 2024, after Vaughan Gething stood down as leader of the Welsh Labour party, Irranca-Davies was initially tipped as a candidate to replace him.

[29] However, Irranca-Davies declined to run for the leadership, instead forming a unity ticket with Eluned Morgan, under which he would be Deputy First Minister of Wales.

[35] The event brought MPs and peers together as well as gold medallists such as Nicky Hunt on Speakers' Green for a day devoted to the sport.

He won the award for his work in standing up for farmers and consumers in the Ogmore constituency and across the nation by persuading the government to u-turn on the Groceries Code Adjudicator (GCA) Bill.