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WHO'S WHO

David Howarth MP

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Lib Dem majority: 4,339  (10%)


Constituency: Cambridge

Region: East of England

PA Number: 118

Address:
16 Signet Court
Swann Road
Cambridge
CB5 8LA

Tel: 01223 304 421

Email: info@davidhowarth.org.uk

Web: http://www.davidhowarth.org.uk/

Date of Birth: 10/11/1958

Occupation: MP

Education: Queen Mary's, Walsall; Clare College, Cambridge; Yale Law School

Experience: University lecturer in law and economics

Council Experience: Leader of Cambridge City Council 2000-03, previously Leader of the Opposition (1990-2000). Councillor since 1987.

Parliamentary Experience: 2007- Shadow Solicitor General, 2006- 7 Shadow DTI (Energy)Spokesman,2005-6ShadowSpokesmanCommunity&LocalGovnt.2005- ConstitutionalAffairsSelect Committee,2005- EnvmntAuditSelectCommittee

Memberships: Friends of the Earth, Amnesty International. Lib Dem Federal Policy Committee 1989

Marital status/children: Married, two children.

Interests: watching football

RESULTS  2005 Election

Seat:

Cambridge

Liberal Democrats

19,152 (44%)
Liberal Democrats
44%
Conservatives
16%
Labour
34%

Turnout:

43,596 (62%)

Conservative

7,193 (16%)

Swing

15.0% Lab to Lib Dem

Labour

14,813 (34%)

BIOGRAPHY

David Howarth gained his seat from Labour in the 2005 general election. David was appointed Shadow Solicitor General in 2007.

David is a Fellow of Clare College, Cambridge and taught Law and Economics at Cambridge University. He grew up on a council estate in Walsall, and went to a local state school, St Mary's, before going to Cambridge University to take a first class honours degree in Law. He then won a scholarship to Yale Law School and gained post-graduate Masters degrees in Law and Sociology from Yale University. David won the Butterworth's Prize for best new legal text book in 1995.

He led Cambridge's city Liberal Democrat group through the 1990s, and was a member of the Federal Policy Committee from 1989-2000. He is also a former Chair of the Economic Policy Working Group and a member of the European Liberal Democrat Council.

David was a member of Cambridge City Council from 1987 until 2004, and led the party to take control of Cambridge City Council in May 2000, defending it in May 2004 with an increased majority.

He stood for Parliament in Cambridge in 1992 and 2001 (Peterborough in 1997), and then succeeded in capturing the Cambridge seat at his third attempt in 2005, becoming the first Liberal or Liberal Democrat to win Cambridge since 1906. David is currently Shadow Solicitor General.

David soon made a name for himself on the backbenches, spearheading the campaign against what was dubbed the Abolition of Parliament Bill, the Legislative and Regulatory Reform Bill."

David is a member of Friends of the Earth and a supporter of Amnesty International. When he has time he enjoys watching football or opera, and he is an avid reader of books on philosophy and international politics




 
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