16 Facts About David Curry

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David Maurice Curry was born on 13 June 1944 and is a British Conservative Party politician.

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David Curry was the Member of Parliament for Skipton and Ripon from 1987 to 2010.

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David Curry attended the Harvard Kennedy School at Harvard University as a Kennedy Scholar.

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David Curry began his career as a reporter on the Newcastle Journal in 1966.

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David Curry contested the safe Labour seat of Morpeth at the February 1974 general election, but was beaten by the sitting Labour MP George Grant by 13,034 votes.

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David Curry was elected a Member of the European Parliament in 1979 for Essex North East.

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David Curry was elected to the House of Commons for the safe Conservative seat of Skipton and Ripon at the 1987 general election on the retirement of the sitting Conservative MP John Watson.

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David Curry won the seat with a majority of 17,174 and held the seat safely until he retired from Parliament in 2010.

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David Curry was promoted within the same department to Minister of State after the 1992 general election by John Major.

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David Curry became a Member of the Privy Council in 1996.

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In opposition David Curry became the Shadow Agriculture Secretary, but resigned from the Shadow Cabinet in December 1997 in protest at the policy of ruling out Britain joining the single European currency for the next ten years.

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David Curry resigned again in 2004, this time citing 'family reasons' and was replaced by Caroline Spelman.

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David Curry was a member of the Public Accounts Select Committee from 2004.

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On 5 February 2009, David Curry announced that he would not stand at the 2010 election.

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On 19 November 2009, David Curry stood down from his position as chairman of the Parliamentary Committee on Standards and Privileges after claims by The Daily Telegraph regarding his expenses and reportedly referred himself to the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority for investigation.

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In January 2013, David Curry was appointed editor-in-chief of The Parliamentary Review.