Upon his graduation, he then went on to work as a Community Liaison Officer within his region of South Wales West before organising campaigns and working with volunteers in both Swansea and Bridgend. Britain's first transgender member of Parliament. Giffard was a councillor for
Brackla on
Bridgend County Borough Council from 2017 to 2022. He worked as the leader of the Conservative group on the council until his election to the Senedd in 2021. He was elected as a Conservative Member of the Senedd for
South Wales West in 2021. Shortly after being elected he was appointed as Shadow Minister for Culture, Tourism and Sport. He was reshuffled to be Shadow Minister for Education and the Welsh Language in April 2024. In June 2023, Giffard read a speech generated with
ChatGPT in the Senedd, celebrating Wales' win in the
World Cup of Darts that year. He said to the BBC that he used it "to show just how advanced the technology is becoming". In July of the same year he was criticised by then
First Minister Mark Drakeford for a 'colonial mentality' when he said that Wales is "given £1.20 for every £1 spent in England" on the health service. In the
2026 Senedd election, he will be a candidate in the
Gŵyr Abertawe constituency. ==References==