28 Facts About David Laws

1.

David Anthony Laws was born on 30 November 1965 and is a British politician who served as the Member of Parliament for Yeovil from 2001 to 2015.

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David Laws was unseated by Conservative nominee Marcus Fysh in the 2015 general election.

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David Laws was born in Farnham, Surrey, son of a Conservative-voting father who was a banker, and a Labour-voting mother.

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David Laws has an older brother and a younger sister, both adopted.

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David Laws was educated at fee-paying independent schools: Woburn Hill School in the town of Weybridge, Surrey, from 1974 to 1979; and St George's College, Weybridge, a Roman Catholic day school in the same town, from 1979 to 1984.

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David Laws graduated in 1987 from King's College, Cambridge, with a double first in economics.

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David Laws went into investment banking, becoming a Vice President at JP Morgan from 1987 to 1992 and then a Managing Director, being the Head of US Dollar and Sterling Treasuries at Barclays de Zoete Wedd.

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8.

David Laws unsuccessfully contested Folkestone and Hythe in 1997 against Home Secretary Michael Howard.

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David Laws had joined the Liberal Democrat back office at the same time as Nick Clegg while the party was led by Paddy Ashdown.

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David Laws was the co-editor of the Orange Book, published in 2004 in so doing creating the term Orange Book liberalism.

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David Laws was the Liberal Democrat spokesman on Children, Schools and Families.

12.

David Laws wrote a lesser-selling book in 2006, Britain After Blair.

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David Laws was one of five Liberal Democrats to obtain Cabinet positions when the coalition was formed, becoming Chief Secretary to the Treasury, tasked with cutting spending and increasing tax take without increasing rates of taxation to eliminate the national deficit.

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David Laws was appointed as a Privy Counsellor on 13 May 2010.

15.

Byrne said the letter was meant as a private joke but David Laws published it, slightly misquoting it at a press briefing as "I'm afraid to tell you there's no money left".

16.

David Laws had not expected the revelation of the contents of the note to be taken as significantly as it was.

17.

David Laws afterwards rented another flat not owned by Lundie, who remained at the Kennington house.

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David Laws resigned as Chief Secretary to the Treasury on 29 May 2010, stating that he could not carry on working on the Comprehensive Spending Review while dealing with the private and public implications of the revelations.

19.

The Committee concluded that David Laws was guilty of breaking six rules with regard to expenses.

20.

Not only has Mr David Laws already resigned from the Cabinet, his behaviour since May 2010 has been exemplary.

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David Laws returned to Government as Minister of State for Schools in the Department for Education and Minister of State in the Cabinet Office in September 2012.

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David Laws was permitted to attend Cabinet, not as a full member but because of his strategic portfolio.

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David Laws was responsible for implementation of the coalition agreement and contributed to Liberal Democrat strategy in the run-up to the 2015 election.

24.

David Laws lost his seat in the 2015 General Election and declined an offer to be seated in the House of Lords.

25.

When CentreForum was rebranded and refocused in 2016 as the Education Policy Institute, David Laws was hired to lead it.

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26.

In initial debates on the spending cuts, Conservative MP for Gainsborough, Edward Leigh described David Laws as heeding to "stern, unbending Gladstonian Liberalism".

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Around the time of the 2010 general election, it was alleged that David Laws told a Conservative colleague that he would have become a Conservative politician had it not been for the Tory party's general "illiberalism and Euroscepticism" and particularly the Thatcher government's introduction of Section 28, which forbade local authorities from "promot[ing] homosexuality".

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David Laws was portrayed by actor Richard Teverson in the 2015 Channel 4 television film Coalition.