David Davis was first elected as the Conservative Member of Parliament for Boothferry from 1987 until 1997. Since 1997, he has served as MP for Haltemprice & Howden, being reelected in 2019 with a majority of 20,329.
The Haltemprice and Howden constituency is found rising northwards from the banks of the River Humber in the East Riding of Yorkshire. Spreading out from the outskirts of Hull in the east it contains a number of villages in the Yorkshire Wolds in the direction of York such as North Ferriby, Melton, South Cave, and Swanland. With four fifths of homes being owner occupied, this area is one of the safest Conservative seats in the UK, and has been held by the party consistently since the 1830s.
David Davis served in the Cabinet as Minister for Exiting the European Union between 2016 and 2018. He resigned in 2018 after a series of disagreements with Theresa May.
During a long political career, Davis was once the Minister of Europe under John Major between 1994 and 1997, and Parliamentary Secretary at the Office of Public Service and Science from May 1993 until July 1994
He also served as Chairman of the Commons Public Accounts Committee between 1997 and 2001,and Chairman of the Conservative Party between 2002-2003.
In 2002 he was appointed Shadow Secretary of State for the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister, and from November 2003 to June 2008, David Davis was the Shadow Home Secretary.
Davis resigned his seat in 2008 forcing a by election in order to start a debate around civil liberties. On the right of the Conservative Party he did not serve in the coalition government between 2010 and 2016. He opposed air strikes against Syria.
David Davis was born in 1948. He was educated at Warwick University (BSc Joint Hons Molecular Science/Computer Science 1968-1971), London Business School (Master’s Degree in Business 1971-1973) and Harvard (Advanced Management Program 1984-1985). He is married with three children.
Before entering Parliament, Davis was appointed as a very young Marketing Director at the FTSE firm Tate and Lyle. Despite this he was later referred to by Dominic Cummings, ex advisor to Boris Johnson, as being ‘as thick as mince’ and as ‘lazy as a toad’.
Davis was also once a reservist soldier in the SAS.
He stood for the Conservative leadership in 2001 and 2005. Initially one of the favourites, he came second in 2005, to David Cameron. Davis backed Dominic Raab and then Boris Johnson in the 2019 Conservative leadership election.
In 2022, Davis called on Boris Johnson to resign after the partygate affair, telling the PM duing Prime Minister Question’s ‘to in the name of God, go’.
David Davis is Chair of the All Party Parliamentary Group on the Future of Work, and Vice Chair of the All Party Parliamentary Group on Deliberative Democracy. According to the Register of Members Interests, he was previously appointed as an external advisor to the firm, JCB.
Website – https://www.daviddavismp.com/
Email – david.davis.mp@parliament.uk.
Twitter – @DavidDavisMP
