In a separate report, the standards committee advised the Senedd that Davies had breached the code of conduct on another matter “but no further action was required”.

The standards commissioner received a complaint about a tweet sent by Davies which stated: “Vaughan Gething’s Labor government espouses the same extreme ideology as its predecessor. Nothing has changed.”

In a tweet from the Guido Fawkes website, Davies copied a picture of Gething, then first minister, and a pregnant woman, writing: “Welsh Government press release celebrates ‘giving birth to people’. Wales is making wombs for ‘people giving birth’. “

The committee stated that the complainant considered this tweet to be a “blatant lie”, “misleading and dangerous”.

The Commissioner noted that the statement issued by the health secretary on 26 April 2024 “does not celebrate the regulations for women and those giving birth”.

The statement was an extract from a report by the Health Inspectorate for Wales, rather than a press release sent directly to journalists.

This document, rather than the Welsh government itself, stated that “staff at all levels of the service work hard to ensure a good experience and that adequate arrangements are in place to provide safe and effective care for women and birthing people”.

The committee also noted that although Davies “wrote and published the tweet himself, he did not write the text copied from the article published in Guido Fawkes.”

But the committee agreed with the commissioner’s finding that this was “irrelevant” and that “members are fully responsible for any quotes they choose to include in a tweet, just as they are responsible for anything they retweet or any tweet they like.”

The committee agreed that Davies “failed to conduct adequate due diligence before publishing his comments”.

However, it concluded that “although we believe the member has breached the Code of Conduct, we do not consider any further action to be necessary.”