Fonds GB 0210 JONEDS - Jonathan Edwards Papers

Jonathan Edwards served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Carmarthen East and Dinefwr from 2010 to 2024. Initially elected as a Plaid Cymru MP, he sat as an Independent MP after the party's disciplinary panel suspended him in 2020 following his acceptance of a police caution for domestic violence against his wife.
He was educated at Ysgol Maes yr Yrfa before studying history and politics at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth. He worked as a staff member for Rhodri Glyn Thomas and Adam Price before working for Plaid Cymru from 2005 to 2007. He worked at Citizens Advice Cymru from 2007 to 2010. In 2010 he was elected as the Plaid Cymru MP for Carmarthen East and Dinefwr and was re-elected in 2015, 2017 and 2019. He stood down at the 2024 General Election.
During his time in Parliament he was a member of the Welsh Grand Committee, the Welsh Affairs Committee, Committee on the Future Relationship with the European Union and the Unathorised Entry to Football Matches Bill Committee. he was Plaid Cymru spokesperson on Welsh Affairs, Communities and Local Government, Business, Innovation and Skills, Foreign intervention, Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, Transport and Culture, media and Sport.