Darren Paul Jones is a British politician serving as Shadow Chief Secretary to the Treasury since 2023.
A member of the Labour Party, he previously chaired the House of Commons Business and Trade Select Committee from 2020 to 2023. Jones has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Bristol North West since 2017.
ones specialises in technology law, and initially worked at Womble Bond Dickinson LLP, before becoming an in-house counsel with BT, advising on data, privacy, cyber-security, telecommunications and consumer law.
In Bristol, Jones started a mentoring programme seeking to bring young people from his old school into the legal profession. He later chaired the Young Lawyers' Network, a nationwide group campaigning for a vote to remain in the European Union in the 2016 referendum, and sat on the board of UK Legal Futures, which brought together leading lawyers to advise politicians and civil servants on legal questions raised by Brexit.
