DAVID LAWS

'David Anthony Laws' (born 30 November 1965) is a politician in the United Kingdom. He is Liberal Democrat Member of Parliament for Yeovil, Paddy Ashdown's old seat, and was first elected in 2001. He is Liberal Democrat Work and Pensions Spokesman.
Born in Farnham, Surrey and after a substantial swing against the Liberal Democrats following the resignation of Paddy Ashdown, Laws regained some of the lost ground at the 2005 election with an increased majority of over 8000.
After graduating with a double first from King's College, Cambridge in Economics, Laws went into investment banking, becoming a Vice President of JP Morgan and then Managing Director of Barclays de Zoete Wedd. He left in 1994 to take up the role of economic adviser to the Liberal Democrats. From 1997-1999 he was the party's Director of Policy and Research.
On his election to parliament he became a member of the Treasury Select Committee, and in November 2001 he was appointed the party's deputy defence spokesperson. A year later took up the position of LibDem Chief Secretary to the Treasury and launched a spending review.
He was appointed the Liberal Democrats' Work and Pensions Spokesman in 2005, a position in which he has been highly critical of the government's handling of the Child Support Agency and flaws in the tax credits system.
He is the co-editor of the (2004).
Shadow Chancellor George Osborne offered Laws, who is generally seen, along with other Orange Book authors, as being on the right-wing of the Lib Dems, a seat in the Shadow Cabinet, but was rebuffed, with Laws saying "He is not a Tory." ^[1][2]

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1. Tories step up hunt for defectors, ''BBC News'', March 23 2007
2. Open maw not big tent, ''The Guardian'', June 22 2007

See also

★ Liberal Democrat Frontbench Team

External links

★ David Laws MP official site

★ David Laws MP profile at the site of Liberal Democrats

★ Yeovil Liberal Democrats

★ ePolitix.com - David Laws MP

★ Guardian Unlimited Politics - Ask Aristotle: David Laws MP

★ TheyWorkForYou.com - David Laws MP

★ The Public Whip - David Laws MP voting record

★ BBC News - David Laws MP profile 7 January, 2006