David Davis leads Britons in EU
The 67-year-old David Michael Davis gets in the new cabinet of Prime Minister Theresa May, the one-time minister post for Leaving given by the European Union.
However, the Conservative veteran is tried and tested in the political profession. He is currently a member of the House of Commons, but he has many important functions within and outside the party to his name. The York-born Davis did even once a bid for the leadership of his Conservative Party, but lost unexpectedly the man Wednesday cleared the field, David Cameron.
Cameron did the same after him begging with a ministerial post, but Davis refused and took in the House of Commons sitting as 'backbencher'. He had moreover been MP since 1987.
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The new minister is true in Britain as the archetype of the old-fashioned, conservative Tory. Within the party, he kicked the president, a position he held from 2001 to 2002. Under Prime Minister John Major, he was from 1994 to 1997 Minister of Foreign Affairs.
Davis is married and has three children.