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David Laws

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David Anthony Laws (born 30 November 1965) is a British Liberal Democrat politician. [1]

84 relations: Bank, Barclays Investment Bank, BBC News, Cabinet Office, Catholic Church, Chard, Somerset, Chief Secretary to the Treasury, Child Support Agency, Child Trust Fund, Civil partnership in the United Kingdom, Conservative Party (UK), Conservative–Liberal Democrat coalition agreement, Danny Alexander, David Cameron, Debate, Department for Education, Edelman (firm), Education Policy Institute, Edward Leigh, ESU Schools Mace, Evan Harris, Farnham, Folkestone and Hythe (UK Parliament constituency), Gainsborough (UK Parliament constituency), George Osborne, Gladstonian liberalism, Home Secretary, Iain Martin, Independent school, Investment banking, JPMorgan Chase, Kennington, King's College, Cambridge, Labour Party (UK), Liam Byrne, Liberal Democrats (UK), List of Scottish Governments, Lobbying, Malcolm Bruce, Marcus Fysh, Member of parliament, Menzies Campbell, Michael Gove, Michael Howard, Minister of State, Mufti (dress), New Statesman, Nick Clegg, Nick Gibb, Nicky Morgan, ..., Paddy Ashdown, Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards, Pound sterling, Premiership of Margaret Thatcher, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Privy Council of the United Kingdom, Provence, Public relations, Rosalind Grender, Baroness Grender, Scottish Parliament election, 1999, Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, Secretary of State for Education, Section 28, Sexual orientation, Shadow Cabinet, Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer, Social liberalism, South London, Spending Review, St George's College, Weybridge, Surrey, Suspension from the UK parliament, The Daily Telegraph, The Guardian, The Orange Book: Reclaiming Liberalism, The Right Honourable, The Wall Street Journal, Treasury Select Committee, United Kingdom general election, 2001, United Kingdom general election, 2010, United Kingdom general election, 2015, United Kingdom parliamentary expenses scandal, Weybridge, Yeovil (UK Parliament constituency). Expand index (34 more) »

Bank

A bank is a financial institution that accepts deposits from the public and creates credit.

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Barclays Investment Bank

Barclays Investment Bank (formerly known as Barclays Capital) is a British multinational investment bank under the auspices of Barclays headquartered in London.

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BBC News

BBC News is an operational business division of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) responsible for the gathering and broadcasting of news and current affairs.

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Cabinet Office

The Cabinet Office is a department of the Government of the United Kingdom responsible for supporting the Prime Minister and Cabinet of the United Kingdom.

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Catholic Church

The Catholic Church, also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with more than 1.299 billion members worldwide.

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Chard, Somerset

Chard is a town and a civil parish in the English county of Somerset.

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Chief Secretary to the Treasury

The Chief Secretary to the Treasury is the second most senior ministerial position in HM Treasury, after the Chancellor of the Exchequer.

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Child Support Agency

The Child Support Agency (CSA) was a delivery arm of the Department for Work and Pensions (Child Maintenance Group) in Great Britain and the former Department for Social Development in Northern Ireland.

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Child Trust Fund

A Child Trust Fund (CTF) is a long-term savings or investment account for children in the United Kingdom.

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Civil partnership in the United Kingdom

Civil partnerships in the United Kingdom are a form of civil union granted under the Civil Partnership Act 2004, allowing same-sex couples to obtain essentially the same rights and responsibilities as civil marriage.

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Conservative Party (UK)

The Conservative Party, officially the Conservative and Unionist Party, is a centre-right political party in the United Kingdom.

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Conservative–Liberal Democrat coalition agreement

The Conservative–Liberal Democrat coalition agreement (officially known as The Coalition: Our Programme for Government) was a policy document drawn up following the 2010 general election in the United Kingdom.

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Danny Alexander

Sir Daniel Grian Alexander (born 15 May 1972) is a Scottish former Liberal Democrat politician who was Chief Secretary to the Treasury between 2010 and 2015.

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David Cameron

David William Donald Cameron (born 9 October 1966) is a British politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 2010 to 2016 and Leader of the Conservative Party from 2005 to 2016.

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Debate

Debate is a process that involves formal discussion on a particular topic.

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Department for Education

The Department for Education (DfE) is a department of Her Majesty's Government responsible for child protection, education (compulsory, further and higher education), apprenticeships and wider skills in England.

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Edelman (firm)

Edelman is an American public relations and marketing consultancy firm, founded by and named after Daniel Edelman.

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Education Policy Institute

The Education Policy Institute (EPI) is an education policy research institute based in Westminster, London.

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Edward Leigh

Sir Edward Julian Egerton Leigh (born 20 July 1950) is a British Conservative Party politician who has served as a Member of Parliament since 1983.

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ESU Schools Mace

The English-Speaking Union Schools' Mace is an annual debating tournament for secondary schools in England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales.

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Evan Harris

Evan Leslie Harris (born 21 October 1965) is a British Liberal Democrat politician.

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Farnham

Farnham is a town in Surrey, England, within the Borough of Waverley.

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Folkestone and Hythe (UK Parliament constituency)

Folkestone and Hythe is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament.

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Gainsborough (UK Parliament constituency)

Gainsborough is a constituency in Lincolnshire represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 1983 by Edward Leigh, a Conservative.

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George Osborne

George Gideon Oliver Osborne (born 23 May 1971) is a British Conservative Party politician, who was Member of Parliament (MP) for Tatton from June 2001 until he stood down on 3 May 2017.

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Gladstonian liberalism

Gladstonian liberalism is a political doctrine named after the British Victorian Prime Minister and leader of the Liberal Party, William Ewart Gladstone.

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Home Secretary

Her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for the Home Department, normally referred to as the Home Secretary, is a senior official as one of the Great Offices of State within Her Majesty's Government and head of the Home Office.

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Iain Martin

Iain James Martin (born 2 October 1971) is a political commentator, author and public speaker.

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Independent school

An independent school is independent in its finances and governance; it is usually not dependent upon national or local government to finance its operations, nor reliant on taxpayer contributions, and is instead funded by a combination of tuition charges, donations, and in some cases the investment yield of an endowment.

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Investment banking

An investment bank is typically a private company that provides various finance-related and other services to individuals, corporations, and governments such as raising financial capital by underwriting or acting as the client's agent in the issuance of securities.

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JPMorgan Chase

JPMorgan Chase & Co. is an American multinational investment bank and financial services company headquartered in New York City.

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Kennington

Kennington is a district in south London, England.

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King's College, Cambridge

King's College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge in Cambridge, England.

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Labour Party (UK)

The Labour Party is a centre-left political party in the United Kingdom.

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Liam Byrne

Liam Dominic Byrne (born 2 October 1970) is a British Labour Party politician who has been Member of Parliament (MP) for Birmingham Hodge Hill since 2004.

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Liberal Democrats (UK)

The Liberal Democrats (often referred to as Lib Dems) are a liberal British political party, formed in 1988 as a merger of the Liberal Party and the Social Democratic Party (SDP), a splinter group from the Labour Party, which had formed the SDP–Liberal Alliance from 1981.

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List of Scottish Governments

This is a list of all Scottish Parliaments and Governments (called the Scottish Executive from 1999 until 2008) the time of the introduction of devolved administration for Scotland in 1999.

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Lobbying

Lobbying, persuasion, or interest representation is the act of attempting to influence the actions, policies, or decisions of officials in their daily life, most often legislators or members of regulatory agencies.

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Malcolm Bruce

Malcolm Gray Bruce, Baron Bruce of Bennachie, (born 17 November 1944) is a British Liberal Democrat politician.

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Marcus Fysh

Marcus John Hudson Fysh (born 1970) is a British Conservative Party politician.

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Member of parliament

A member of parliament (MP) is the representative of the voters to a parliament.

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Menzies Campbell

Walter Menzies Campbell, Baron Campbell of Pittenweem, (born 22 May 1941), often known as Ming Campbell, is a British Liberal Democrat politician, advocate and former athlete.

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Michael Gove

Michael Andrew Gove (born 26 August 1967) is a British Conservative politician, who was Secretary of State for Education from 2010 to 2014 and Secretary of State for Justice from 2015 to 2016.

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Michael Howard

Michael Howard, Baron Howard of Lympne, (born 7 July 1941), is a British politician who served as the Leader of the Conservative Party and Leader of the Opposition from November 2003 to December 2005.

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Minister of State

Minister of State is a title borne by politicians or officials in certain countries governed under a parliamentary system.

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Mufti (dress)

Mufti, or civies/civvies (slang for "civilian attire"), refers to plain or ordinary clothes, especially when worn by one who normally wears, or has long worn, a military or other uniform.

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New Statesman

The New Statesman is a British political and cultural magazine published in London.

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Nick Clegg

Sir Nicholas William Peter Clegg (born 7 January 1967) is a British politician who served as Deputy Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 2010 to 2015 and as Leader of the Liberal Democrats from 2007 to 2015.

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Nick Gibb

Nicolas John Gibb (born 3 September 1960) is a British Conservative Party politician.

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Nicky Morgan

Nicola Ann Morgan (née Griffith; born 1 October 1972) is a British Conservative Party politician and former lawyer who has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Loughborough since 2010 and was the Secretary of State for Education and Minister for Women and Equalities from July 2014 to July 2016.

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Paddy Ashdown

Jeremy John Durham Ashdown, Baron Ashdown of Norton-sub-Hamdon, (born 27 February 1941), known as Paddy Ashdown, is a British politician and former diplomat who served as Leader of the Liberal Democrats from 1988 until August 1999.

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Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards

The Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards is an officer of the British House of Commons.

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Pound sterling

The pound sterling (symbol: £; ISO code: GBP), commonly known as the pound and less commonly referred to as Sterling, is the official currency of the United Kingdom, Jersey, Guernsey, the Isle of Man, South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands, the British Antarctic Territory, and Tristan da Cunha.

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Premiership of Margaret Thatcher

Margaret Thatcher served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from May 1979 to November 1990.

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Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

The Prime Minister of the United Kingdom is the head of the United Kingdom government.

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Privy Council of the United Kingdom

Her Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council, usually known simply as the Privy Council, is a formal body of advisers to the Sovereign of the United Kingdom.

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Provence

Provence (Provençal: Provença in classical norm or Prouvènço in Mistralian norm) is a geographical region and historical province of southeastern France, which extends from the left bank of the lower Rhône River to the west to the Italian border to the east, and is bordered by the Mediterranean Sea to the south.

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Public relations

Public relations (PR) is the practice of managing the spread of information between an individual or an organization (such as a business, government agency, or a nonprofit organization) and the public.

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Rosalind Grender, Baroness Grender

Rosalind Mary Grender, Baroness Grender, MBE, known as Olly Grender, (19 August 1962) is a former Head of Communications for the Liberal Democrats and a party life peer.

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Scottish Parliament election, 1999

The first election to the devolved Scottish Parliament, to fill 129 seats, took place on 6 May 1999.

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Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families

The Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families was a Cabinet minister post in the United Kingdom.

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Secretary of State for Education

Her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for Education (frequently shortened to the Education Secretary) is the chief minister of the Department for Education in the United Kingdom government.

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Section 28

Section 28 or Clause 28While going through Parliament, the amendment was constantly relabelled with a variety of clause numbers as other amendments were added to or deleted from the Bill, but by the final version of the Bill, which received Royal Assent, it had become Section 28.

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Sexual orientation

Sexual orientation is an enduring pattern of romantic or sexual attraction (or a combination of these) to persons of the opposite sex or gender, the same sex or gender, or to both sexes or more than one gender.

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Shadow Cabinet

The Shadow Cabinet is a feature of the Westminster system of government.

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Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer

The Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer in the British Parliamentary system is the member of the Shadow Cabinet who is responsible for shadowing the Chancellor of the Exchequer.

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Social liberalism

Social liberalism (also known as modern liberalism or egalitarian liberalism) is a political ideology and a variety of liberalism that endorses a market economy and the expansion of civil and political rights while also believing that the legitimate role of the government includes addressing economic and social issues such as poverty, health care and education.

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South London

South London is the southern part of London, England, south of the River Thames, and includes the historic districts of Southwark, Lambeth, Bankside and Greenwich.

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Spending Review

A Spending Review or occasionally Comprehensive Spending Review is a governmental process in the United Kingdom carried out by HM Treasury to set firm expenditure limits and, through public service agreements, define the key improvements that the public can expect from these resources.

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St George's College, Weybridge

St George's Weybridge are independent mixed Roman Catholic co-educational day schools in Surrey, England taking pupils from 3-18.

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Surrey

Surrey is a county in South East England, and one of the home counties.

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Suspension from the UK parliament

In the Parliament of the United Kingdom, Members of Parliament (MPs) can be suspended from sitting in the House of Commons by the Speaker for "disorderly conduct".

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The Daily Telegraph

The Daily Telegraph, commonly referred to simply as The Telegraph, is a national British daily broadsheet newspaper published in London by Telegraph Media Group and distributed across the United Kingdom and internationally.

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The Guardian

The Guardian is a British daily newspaper.

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The Orange Book: Reclaiming Liberalism

The Orange Book: Reclaiming Liberalism is a book written by a group of prominent British Liberal Democrat politicians, and edited by David Laws and Paul Marshall in 2004.

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The Right Honourable

The Right Honourable (The Rt Hon. or Rt Hon.) is an honorific style traditionally applied to certain persons and to certain collective bodies in the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Fiji, India, some other Commonwealth realms, the Anglophone Caribbean, Mauritius, and occasionally elsewhere.

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The Wall Street Journal

The Wall Street Journal is a U.S. business-focused, English-language international daily newspaper based in New York City.

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Treasury Select Committee

The House of Commons Treasury Committee (often referred to as the 'Treasury Select Committee') is a select committee of the House of Commons in the Parliament of the United Kingdom.

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United Kingdom general election, 2001

The 2001 United Kingdom general election was held on Thursday 7 June 2001, four years after the previous election on 1 May 1997, to elect 659 members to the British House of Commons.

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United Kingdom general election, 2010

The 2010 United Kingdom general election was held on Thursday, 6 May 2010, with 45,597,461 registered voters entitled to vote to elect members to the House of Commons.

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United Kingdom general election, 2015

The 2015 United Kingdom general election was held on 7 May 2015 to elect 650 members to the House of Commons.

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United Kingdom parliamentary expenses scandal

The United Kingdom parliamentary expenses scandal was a major political scandal that emerged in 2009, concerning expenses claims made by members of the United Kingdom Parliament over the previous years.

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Weybridge

Weybridge is a town by the River Wey in the Elmbridge district of Surrey.

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Yeovil (UK Parliament constituency)

Yeovil is a county constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Laws

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