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David Davis

Brexit negotiator and former Minister for Europe David Davis grew up as a single mother in a town hall and later became a career Conservative politician.

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Om David Davis

David Davis served as Secretary of State for Withdrawal from the EU from July 2016 to July 2018. In 2016, David Davis was appointed by the new Prime Minister Theresa May as Minister for the UK's exit from the EU after a referendum in which a majority voted to leave the EU. He was responsible for negotiating Britain's future exit from the EU. David Davis has been the Member of Parliament for Haltemprice and Howden since 1997. He was previously elected to the House of Commons for Boothferry in 1987 and re-elected in 1992. He was Minister for Europe from 1994 to 1997. Davis grew up on a council house in Tooting, South West London. After attending Bec Grammar School in Tooting, he gained a Masters in Business at 25 and entered a career with Tate & Lyle. He was elected to Parliament in 1987 aged 38 for Boothferry and was appointed Minister for Europe by Prime Minister John Major in 1994. He held the post until the 1997 general election. He was subsequently Chairman of the Conservative Party and Shadow Minister for Office of the Deputy Prime Minister. Between 2003-08 David Davis was Shadow Home Secretary in the shadow governments of both Michael Howard and David Cameron. David Davis had previously been a candidate for the leadership of the Conservative Party in 2001 and 2005, where he came fourth and second respectively. On 12 June 2008, Davis surprisingly announced his intention to stand down as a Member of Parliament and was immediately replaced as Shadow Home Secretary; this was done to force a by-election in his constituency, where he intended to stand again by running a specific campaign designed to provoke a wider public debate about the erosion of civil liberties in Britain. Following his formal resignation as a Member of Parliament, he became the Conservative candidate in the resulting by-election and won a month later. In 2012 he co-founded the Conservative press group Conservative Voice with Liam Fox to expand the grassroots voice of members he felt were being forgotten in the party.