41 Facts About Dehenna Davison

Dehenna Sheridan Davison is a British former Conservative Party politician and broadcaster.

Dehenna Davison served as the Member of Parliament for Bishop Auckland from 2019 to 2024.

Dehenna Davison served as Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Levelling Up between September 2022 and September 2023.

Dehenna Davison studied British Politics and Legislative Studies at the University of Hull, where she was an NUS delegate, and successfully led a campaign to disaffiliate the university's student union in 2016.

Dehenna Davison was elected as MP for Bishop Auckland in the 2019 general election.

Dehenna Davison was the Conservative candidate for Kingston upon Hull North and Sedgefield in the 2015 and 2017 general elections respectively.

Dehenna Davison is the first Conservative to represent the constituency since its creation in 1885.

Dehenna Davison supported Liz Truss in her successful campaign to become Prime Minister in September 2022 and subsequently became Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Levelling Up, a role she retained under Rishi Sunak.

Dehenna Sheridan Davison was born on 27 July 1993 in Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England, where she grew up on a council estate.

Dehenna Davison's father, Dominic, was a stonemason, and her mother, Nicola, was a nursery nurse.

Dehenna Davison attended Sheffield High School, a private school on a scholarship sponsored by the bank HSBC.

Dehenna Davison's assailant was acquitted of manslaughter but served 18 months in jail for a separate assault charge.

Dehenna Davison studied British Politics and Legislative Studies at the University of Hull.

Dehenna Davison was a NUS delegate and played for the university's lacrosse team.

Dehenna Davison led a successful campaign to disaffiliate the university's student union from the NUS in 2016.

Dehenna Davison was selected as the Conservative candidate for the Kingston upon Hull North constituency at the 2015 general election.

Dehenna Davison finished third behind the Labour Party and UK Independence Party candidates.

Dehenna Davison supported Brexit in the 2016 United Kingdom European Union membership referendum and is a classical liberal.

Dehenna Davison next contested Sedgefield at the 2017 general election, where she finished second behind the Labour candidate.

Dehenna Davison was the first Conservative MP for the constituency since its creation in 1885.

Dehenna Davison's campaign focused on promises on Brexit, and reopening Bishop Auckland Hospital's emergency department, which had been closed in 2009.

Dehenna Davison made her maiden speech on 16 January 2020.

On 14 February 2020, it was reported that Dehenna Davison had been photographed with two far-right activists at a party to celebrate Brexit on 31 January in her constituency.

Dehenna Davison was a member of the Home Affairs Select Committee from March 2020 to November 2021.

Dehenna Davison is a member of the European Research Group, on the steering committee of the China Research Group, on the board of the Blue Collar Conservatives, and a member of the parliamentary council of the centre-right think tank The Northern Policy Foundation.

In September 2020, Dehenna Davison was criticised by her own party after she mocked then Scottish Labour leader Richard Leonard for having an English accent and suggested that this was the reason for Labour's decline in support in Scotland.

In February 2021, Dehenna Davison created the All-Party Parliamentary Group for One-Punch Assaults and served as its chair till September 2022.

Dehenna Davison's father died of a one-punch assault when she was 13 years old.

Dehenna Davison launched the Free Market Forum, a group of Conservative MPs advocating classical liberalism that is affiliated with the Institute of Economic Affairs think tank with Greg Smith in April 2021.

Dehenna Davison was a co-host of The Political Correction on GB News on Sunday mornings between June 2021 and September 2022.

Dehenna Davison abstained on the vote for the Health and Social Care Levy in September 2021.

Dehenna Davison was one of 99 Conservative MPs to vote against the introduction of Covid passes in England in December 2021.

Dehenna Davison was one of 148 MPs to vote against Prime Minister Boris Johnson in the 2022 Conservative Party vote of confidence in his leadership on 6 June.

Truss became Prime Minister on 6 September 2022 and Dehenna Davison was appointed as Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities two days later.

Rishi Sunak succeeded Truss as a result of the October 2022 Conservative Party leadership election and Dehenna Davison retained her role.

On 25 November 2022, Dehenna Davison announced that she would not seek re-election as an MP at the next general election citing the need to have a "life outside of politics" and support her family.

Dehenna Davison married Hull City councillor John Fareham, who is 35 years her senior, in 2018.

Dehenna Davison came out as bisexual in 2021, and was the first openly bisexual female Conservative MP.

Kay became the deputy British Ambassador to Brazil in the summer of 2024 and Dehenna Davison had spoken about joining him there when her term as MP ended.

Dehenna Davison has been open about her past use of antidepressants.

In November 2023, Dehenna Davison was named to the BBC's 100 Women list, which features 100 inspiring and influential women from around the world.