Jon Burns

Cllr Jon Burns

Welsh Assembly Candidate for Blaenau Gwent

Jon was born in Manchester in 1981 and moved with his family to Chichester in 1990. He was educated at Chichester High School for Boys and then Brunel University in West London. He first worked for The Daily Telegraph in Canary Wharf, HM Inspectorate of Prisons in the Home Office, and later for a public affairs consultancy in Westminster.

Jon moved to Cardiff in 2003 to work for the Welsh Conservatives Health Spokesman in the National Assembly. He was elected as one of the youngest County Councillors in Cardiff in 2004 on a dramatic swing from Labour to the Conservatives. He serves on the Governing body of two local schools and is a member of the South Wales Fire Authority.

Following the death of Independent AM and MP Peter Law, Jon was selected by the Conservative Party to fight the South Wales Valleys seat of Blaenau Gwent.

In his spare time, Jon is a keen yachtsman and regularly sails with family and friends around the Solent, the English Channel and the Northern Coast of France.

Jon says, "In recent months the people of Blaenau Gwent have been exposed to everything that is wrong with the Labour Party both locally and nationally.

"Fighting this campaign in the birthplace of the National Health Service gives the Conservative Party an opportunity to expose Labour's nine years of failure and broken promises."