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David Davis- 'The strangulation of British freedoms'

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Uploaded by on Dec 10, 2009

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David Davis reads the speech he was going to read in the House of Parliament but which he was prevented from reading so instead David Davis reads his speech outside Parliament. ------------------------------------------------------------

David Michael Davis (born 23 December 1948) is a British politician who is the Conservative Party Member of Parliament for the constituency of Haltemprice and Howden. He is often mistaken for fellow Tory MP David TC Davies (Monmouth).

Born in 1948, Davis was raised on a council estate in South London. After a grammar school education, he went on to gain a Master's degree in business at age 25, and went into a career with Tate & Lyle.

Entering Parliament in 1987 at age 38 for the Boothferry constituency, in his subsequent political career he held the positions of Conservative party chairman and Shadow Deputy Prime Minister. Between 2003 and 2008 he was the Shadow Home Secretary in the shadow cabinet, under both Michael Howard and David Cameron. Davis had previously been a candidate for the leadership of the Conservative Party in 2001 and 2005, coming fourth and then second.

On 12 June 2008, in a surprise and controversial move, Davis announced his intention to resign as an MP, and was immediately replaced as Shadow Home Secretary. This was in order to force a by-election in his seat, for which he intended to seek re-election by mounting a specific campaign designed to provoke wider public debate about the erosion of civil liberties in the United Kingdom. Following his formal resignation as an MP on 18 June 2008, he officially became the Conservative candidate in the resulting by-election and won it on 10 July 2008.

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  • Well at least we know there are some respectable people in government. Unfortunately they are in the minority.

  • So sad... where's freedom going?

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