[6] After Nick Bourne took the lead of the party he was appointed as the Agriculture and Rural Affairs spokesperson in his frontbench team.

[10][11] Three of his own farms were located in the initial foot and mouth exclusion zone in Ynys Môn, and his cattle were eventually culled.

[12][13] In October 2001, it was announced he was investigated by standards authorities in the National Assembly for Wales for naming a civil servant, who he accused of failing to adequately handle a constituent's situation.

[22] Rogers was selected to contest the Ynys Mon constituency again at the 2003 National Assembly for Wales election in March 2002.

[23] He was also placed seventh on the North Wales regional list for the Conservative Party, after a local association member's vote to select the order.

[30] There was an attempt to select Rogers for the Ynys Môn constituency for the 2005 United Kingdom general election, but it was unsuccessful, with his application to be on the short list being rejected by the Conservative Party.

[39][40] In February 2005, he announced he would run as an independent candidate for Ynys Môn at the 2005 general election, and resigned from the Conservative party.

[48] Rogers announced he would contest Rhosyr ward on Ynys Mon council as an independent at elections held in June 2004.

[52] He served as High Sheriff of Gwynedd from 2008 to 2009 and represented Isle of Anglesey council on North Wales Police Authority.

[1] In 2011, Rogers was cleared of bullying and harassment in 2011, after an April 2010 incident where he accompanied a constituent to the police station, and acted in a manner that was found to have brought Anglesey council and the office of councillor into disrepute.

He was cleared of having a prejudicial interest in the sale of some land by the council, but was regardless suspended for a month for his criticism of the Public Service Ombudsman and the officer responsible for investigating him.