Alex Williams is the Deputy Chairman of South Wales West Conservatives and Chairman of the Ogmore Conservative Association, and was the Assembly candidate in Bridgend in 2011. Since his election in 2008, he has also served as a Councillor on Pencoed Town Council. He studied French & Politics at the University of Bath and Institut d'Etudes Politiques in Strasbourg and Transatlantic Politics at the University of Washington. He has worked for both Hewlett-Packard and Ofcom in public affairs and policy roles. He is a Member of the Tory Reform Group - an organisation which promotes the values of One Nation Conservatism.

The Blue Brothers

After having observed the First Minister’s leadership qualities at close quarters as his Welsh Conservative challenger in Bridgend, Alex Williams offers his views on the forthcoming Welsh Conservative leadership contest and tells us why he is keeping an open mind

This change coalition can deliver for the Valleys

By removing the suffocating grip of Labour centralism, the new Conservative-Liberal coalition government promises real and beneficial change for some of Wales’s most deprived communities