David Davis

**David Michael Davis** (born 23 December 1948) is an English politician.  He is a member of the Conservative Party.  In July 2016, Davis became the first Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union under the Theresa May cabinet.

Davis was born in York and raised in south London.

He was the Shadow Home Secretary from 2003 - 2008.  He is the Member of Parliament for the Haltemprice and Howden constituency in the United Kingdom. He was first elected in the 1987 general election for the Boothferry constituency.

On 12 June 2008, Davis said he was going to resign as an MP, and was immediately replaced as Shadow Home Secretary.  This was intended to force a by-election in his seat, for which he intended to seek re-election by mounting a specific campaign designed to provoke wider public debate about the erosion of civil liberties in the United Kingdom.  Following his formal resignation as an MP on 18 June 2008, he officially became the Conservative candidate in the resulting by-election and won it on 10 July 2008.

In 2017, Davis proposed a new treaty between UK and EU to fight crime and terror, after series of terrorist incidents in UK.  In September 2017, he stated that UK was to remain as the part of Europol.  However, EU is said to have refused to discuss Europol, which exchanges crime and counter-terrorism information and intelligence, until it judges that the "sufficient progress" has been on the financial settlement, Ireland and citizen's rights after Brexit.

On 8 July 2018 Davis resigned as Brexit Secretary.

## Infobox (officeholder)

- **honorific-prefix**: The Right Honourable
- **name**: David Davis
- **honorific-suffix**: Member of Parliament, MP
- **image**: Official portrait of Rt Hon David Davis MP crop 2.jpg
- **caption**: Davis in 2020
- **office**: Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union, Secretary of State for Exiting the
 European Union
- **primeminister**: Theresa May
- **term start**: 13 July 2016
- **term end**: 8 July 2018
- **predecessor**: Position established
- **successor**: Dominic Raab
- **office1**: Shadow Home Secretary
- **leader1**: Michael Howard
David Cameron
- **term start1**: 11 November 2003
- **term end1**: 12 June 2008
- **predecessor1**: Oliver Letwin
- **successor1**: Dominic Grieve
- **office2**: Shadow Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, Shadow Secretary of State for the Office of Deputy Prime Minister
- **leader2**: Iain Duncan Smith
- **term start2**: 23 July 2002
- **term end2**: 11 November 2003
- **predecessor2**: Eric Pickles
- **successor2**: Eric Pickles
Bernard Jenkin
- **office3**: Chairman of the Conservative Party
- **leader3**: Iain Duncan Smith
- **term start3**: 18 September 2001
- **term end3**: 23 July 2002
- **predecessor3**: Michael Ancram
- **successor3**: Theresa May
- **office4**: Chair of the Public Accounts Committee (United Kingdom), Public Accounts Committee
- **leader4**: William Hague
- **term start4**: 18 June 1997
- **term end4**: 7 June 2001
- **predecessor4**: Robert Sheldon, Baron Sheldon, Robert Sheldon
- **successor4**: Edward Leigh
- **office5**: Minister of State for Europe
- **primeminister5**: John Major
- **term start5**: 20 July 1994
- **term end5**: 2 May 1997
- **predecessor5**: David Heathcoat-Amory
- **successor5**: Doug Henderson (Labour politician), Doug Henderson
- **office6**: Member of Parliament (United Kingdom), Member of Parliament
for Haltemprice and Howden (UK Parliament constituency), Haltemprice and Howden

- **term start6**: 11 June 1987
- **predecessor6**: Paul Bryan
- **majority6**: 16,195 (33.2%)
- **birth place**: York, England
- **party**: Conservative Party (UK), Conservative
- **spouse**: Doreen Davis
- **children**: 3
- **alma mater**: University of Warwick
London Business School