Edward Davey

Infobox MP
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name = Edward Davey
honorific-suffix = MP

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office = Lib Dems Chief of Staff and Chair of Campaign and Communications
term_start = 18 December 2006
term_end =
leader = Nick Clegg
predecessor = Norman Lamb
successor = Incumbent
office2 = Lib Dems Trade and Industry Secretary
term_start2 = 3 March 2006
term_end2 = 18 December 2006
predecessor2 = Norman Lamb
successor2 = Susan Kramer
office3 = Lib Dems Secretary of State for Education and Skills
term_start3 = 16 May 2005
term_end3 = 3 March 2006
leader3 = Charles Kennedy
predecessor3 = Phil Willis
successor3 = Sarah Teather
constituency_MP4 = Kingston and Surbiton
majority4 = 8,966 (18.0%)
term_start4 = 1 May 1997
term_end4 =
predecessor4 = Richard Tracey
successor4 = Incumbent
birth_date = Birth date and age|1965|12|25|df=yes
birth_place = Nottingham
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nationality = British
spouse = Emily Gasson
party = Liberal Democrats
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alma_mater = Jesus College, Oxford, University of London
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Edward Jonathan "Ed" Davey (born 25 December 1965) a British Member of Parliament. He is the Liberal Democrat representative for Kingston and Surbiton and was Chief of Staff to the party leader Sir Menzies Campbell.

Early life

The son of a solicitor father and teacher mother,cite web
url=http://www.libdems.org.uk/party/people/mr-edward-davey.html
title=Liberal Democrats: Edward Davey MP, Kingston & Surbiton
publisher=Liberal Democrats
accessdate=2006-09-04] Edward Davey was born in Annesley Woodhouse, Nottinghamshire.cite web
url=http://politics.guardian.co.uk/person/biography/0,,-1276,00.html
title=Guardian Unlimited Politics | Aristotle | Davey, Edward
publisher=Guardian Newspapers
accessdate=2006-09-04] His father died when Davey was just four years old, and his mother eleven years later, following which he was brought up by his mother's parents. After attending senior school at the independent Nottingham High School (as have other MPs - Kenneth Clarke, Geoff Hoon and Ed Balls to name but three) in the year above Ed Balls, where he was head boy in 1984, he furthered his education at Jesus College, Oxford where he was awarded a first class BA degree in Philosophy, Politics and Economics in 1988. Whilst at Oxford, he was also elected to the JCR presidency of Jesus College.

As a teenager he worked at Pork Farms pork pie factory and at Boots. In 1989, he became an economics researcher for the Liberal Democrats (principally to Alan Beith, the party's Treasury spokesman), whilst studying at Birkbeck College, London for a master's degree (MSc) in Economics. During that time he proposed making the Bank of England independent, a policy enacted by the Labour Party following their election in May 1997. In 1993, he took up the position of management consultant with Omega Partners until his election to Westminster.

Member of Parliament

Edward Davey was elected to the House of Commons at his first attempt at the 1997 General Election where he defeated the sitting Conservative MP for the former constituency of Surbiton Richard Tracey with a majority of just 56 votes and has remained the MP there since. He made his maiden speech on 6 June 1997, in which he gave his support for the setting up of the London Assembly, but against the idea of a directly elected Mayor of London, he also talked about the effects governmental cuts was having on the education delivery in the London Borough of Kingston upon Thames.cite web
url = http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm199798/cmhansrd/vo970606/debtext/70606-14.htm#70606-14_spnew3
title = House of Commons Hansard Debates for 6 June 1997 (pt 14)
author = Department of the Official Report (Hansard), House of Commons, Westminster
publisher = The Stationery Office Ltd
language = en
monthday = July 6
year = 1997
accessmonthday = July 31
accessyear = 2006]

Lib Dems Shadow Cabinet

In parliament he was given a job immediately by Paddy Ashdown and became the party's spokesman on Treasury Affairs, adding the post of Whip in 1998, and a third job to hold as the spokesman on London from 2000. He entered the Charles Kennedy Liberal Democrat Shadow Cabinet following the 2001 General Election (at which he increased his majority to 15,676 over a former Conservative MP David Shaw), and became the Liberal Democrat Chief Secretary to the Treasury until 2002 when he became the Liberal Democrat Shadow at the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister. He was appointed Liberal Democrat Shadow Education and Skills Secretary in 2005 before becoming Liberal Democrats Shadow Trade and Industry Secretary in March 2006. In December 2006, he succeeded Norman Lamb as Chief of Staff to Sir Menzies Campbell, the party leader. Davey is Chair of the party's Campaigns and Communications Committee. Following Nick Clegg's election as Leader of the Liberal Democrat Party, Davey was awarded the Foreign brief, and continues to retain his chairmanship of the party's Campaigns and Communications Committee.

On 26th February 2008, Davey was suspended from parliament for the day for ignoring a warning from the deputy speaker. He was protesting about the exclusion by the speaker of a Liberal Democrat motion to debate and vote on whether the UK should have a referendum on staying in the EU. [ [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/7265516.stm BBC NEWS | Politics | Lib Dem ordered out of EU debate ] ]

Personal life

Edward Davey was responsible for introducing the Liberal Democrat policy of "penny on income tax to pay for education" in 1997. He was one of the contributors to the (2004).

In 1995, before his election as an MP, he won a Royal Humane Society bravery award and commendation from the Chief Constable of the British Transport Police for rescuing a woman who had fallen onto the train line in the face of on oncoming train at Clapham Junction station. He speaks French, Spanish and German.Fact|date=February 2007.

Edward married Emily Gasson (Lib Dem candidate in North Dorset) in summer 2005 and their first child, a son John Alban Davey, was born in December 2007. They live in Surbiton

References

ee also

*Liberal Democrat Frontbench Team

Publications

*"Making MPs Work For Our Money: Reforming Parliament's Role In Budget Scrutiny" by Edward Davey, 2000, Centre for Reform, ISBN 1-902622-21-9
*"Liberalism and localism", Chapter 2 in "" by David Laws and Paul Marshall (contributions "et al"), 2004, Profile Books, ISBN 1-86197-797-2

External links

* [http://www.edwarddavey.org.uk/ Edward Davey MP] official site
* [http://www.libdems.org.uk/people/edward-davey Edward Davey MP] profile on the main Liberal Democrat website
* [http://www.epolitix.com/EN/MPWebsites/Edward+Davey/ ePolitix.com - Edward Davey]
* [http://politics.guardian.co.uk/person/0,9290,-1276,00.html Guardian Unlimited Politics - Ask Aristotle: Edward Davey MP]
* [http://www.theyworkforyou.com/mp/edward_davey/kingston_and_surbiton TheyWorkForYou.com - Edward Davey MP]
* [http://www.publicwhip.org.uk/mp.php?mpn=Edward_Davey&mpc=Kingston+%26amp%3B+Surbiton The Public Whip - Edward Davey] voting record
* [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/7048585.stm BBC News - Edward Davey] profile 17 October, 2007
* [http://www.dmoz.org/Regional/Europe/United_Kingdom/Society_and_Culture/Politics/Parties/Liberal_Democrats/MPs/Davey,_Edward/ Open Directory Project - Edward Davey] directory category
* [http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2008/feb/26/liberaldemocrats.houseofcommons?gusrc=rss&feed=networkfront Lib Dem frontbencher thrown out of Commons] "Guardian" article from 26 February 2008.