Ieuan Wyn Jones

Ieuan Wyn Jones (born 22 May 1949) is a Welsh former politician who served as Deputy First Minister of Wales from 2007 to 2011 and as Leader of the Opposition in Wales from 2000 to 2007. He was Leader of Plaid Cymru from 2000 to 2012. Jones was Member of Parliament (MP) for Ynys Môn from 1987 to 2001 and Assembly Member (AM) for Ynys Môn from 1999 to 2013. Born in Denbigh, Jones studied law at Liverpool Polytechnic and began his career as a solicitor. He stood as a Plaid Cymru candidate in the October 1974 and 1979 general elections before being elected as the MP for Ynys Môn in 1987. In the 1999 National Assembly election, Jones was elected as the AM for Ynys Mon and served in the Wigley shadow cabinet as Shadow Trefnydd and Shadow Chief Whip from 1999 to 2000. Jones became Leader of the Opposition and Leader of Plaid Cymru in 2000 following the resignation of Dafydd Wigley, and was re-elected as an AM in the 2003 election. After the 2007 election, Jones signed the One Wales coalition agreement with Welsh Labour, and was appointed into the fourth Rhodri Morgan government as Deputy First Minister of Wales and Minister for the Economy and Transport. He left government after Plaid became the third largest party at the 2011 election, and resigned as Plaid leader and AM in 2013.

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