Showing posts with label David Davis. Show all posts
Showing posts with label David Davis. Show all posts
Monday, July 09, 2018
Tory Civil War amid Plot to Bring Down PM over Brexit Policy
Tuesday, February 20, 2018
David Davis's Brexit Speech in Austria - Watch Live
Thursday, March 29, 2012
Ben Brogan has already identified the need for the Government to look and sound like it understands the rest of us. Mr Davis, the former shadow home secretary is making a similar point, in a rather more aggressive way. He's has given an interview to BBC Radio Four's World at One, in which he warned that the Cameron-led Conservatives risk losing the "hard-working aspirant" working class. "You can’t win an election without them," he noted.
Because of austerity measures, those people feel they’ve been “pushed off the escalator”, he said. "They start to resent those at the top of the escalator, and that works worst against Conservatives.”
“They look at the front bench. They see them, all very well turned out, well-fed, they look like they’re in a completely different world" Read on and comment » | James Kirkup | Thursday, March 29, 2012
Sunday, July 25, 2010
Saturday, July 24, 2010
THE TELEGRAPH: David Davis, the leading Conservative MP, has been accused of lampooning the Tory-Lib Dem alliance and describing it as the "Brokeback Coalition".
In reportedly extended criticism, he also referred to David Cameron's flagship Big Society policy as “Blairite dressing”.
Mr Davis' alleged comments suggest deep frustration at the way Conservative MPs have been forced to accept the deal with Nick Clegg’s party.
Mr Davis is reported to have said: “The corollary of the big society is the smaller state. If you talk about the small state, people think you’re Attila the Hun. If you talk about the big society, people think you’re Mother Teresa.”
The former shadow home secretary was allegedly overheard making the comments in a City of London pub during a private lunch with businessmen.
The leading right wing MP - who stood against Mr Cameron in the 2005 leadership campaign - also allegedly said the Prime Minister was more concerned with appeasing Lib Dems rather than appealing to MPs in his own party.
The Financial Times reported that three of its journalists heard Mr Davis attack the Coalition.
He was alleged to have approvingly repeated a remark attributed to a senior Conservative, which talked of the David Cameron-Nick Clegg partnership as the “Brokeback coalition” – a reference to the Oscar-winning film about two homosexual cowboys. Continue reading and comment >>> Andrew Porter, Political Editor | Friday, July 23, 2010
Friday, June 13, 2008
THE TELEGRAPH: The Conservative Party has been plunged into turmoil after David Davis, one of the party’s most senior members, unexpectedly resigned as an MP.
In a surprise move that shocked David Cameron, the shadow home secretary announced he was quitting the front bench following Gordon Brown’s victory over the 42 day terrorism laws.
After enjoying eight months of positive publicity and a series of recent electoral successes, Mr Davis’s move marks a significant setback for Mr Cameron.
The Tory leader will now have to deal with the biggest upheaval and uncertainty of his leadership since fighting off a possible early election last autumn.
Publicly, Mr Cameron said the move was “brave and courageous”. But Conservative insiders now believe Mr Davis has “lost the plot”.
The move stunned Westminster and shocked Tory MPs. Mr Davis acknowledged that he could be risking his own political future.
By standing down as an MP, Mr Davis will spark a by-election in his Yorkshire seat, where he will stand again as a Tory candidate campaigning on the issue of civil liberties. David Davis Stuns Westminster with Resignation over 42-Day Terror Law >>> By Andrew Porter, Political Editor | June 13, 2008
THE TELEGRAPH:
David Davis’ statement in full >>>
THE TELEGRAPH:
I’m Fighting to Defend Our Basic Freedoms >>> | June 13, 2008
THE TELEGRAPH:
David Davis Has Set a Powerful Example >>> By Simon Heffer | June 13, 2008
The Dawning of a New Dark Age (Paperback – USA)
The Dawning of a New Dark Age (Hardcover – USA)
Thursday, June 12, 2008
DAILY EXPRESS: SHADOW home secretary David Davis has today resigned as an MP to take a stand against the relentless erosion of British freedom by the Government.
Mr Davis said he was forcing a by-election to protest against the “insidious” erosion of civil liberties in Britain.
The move comes in the wake of yesterday's victory for the Government over the 42-day terror detention plan.
The Tory frontbencher spearheaded the Conservatives’ failed bid to defeat the Government over extending detention without charge, which caused disquiet among some Tory MPs.
Speaking this lunchtime Mr Davis said he acting against "the slow strangulation of fundamental British freedoms by this Government".
As the resignation drama unfolded in Westminster, a Lib Dem spokeswoman confirmed the party would not be fielding a candidate in the resulting Howden and Haltemprice by-election - giving Mr Davis a clear run against a Labour candidate. [Source: David Davis Quits in Stand Against the Erosion of British Freedom] By Julia White | June 12, 2008
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