Edward Davey

Edward Davey

Sir Edward "Ed" Jonathan Davey (* 25. December 1965 in Annesley Woodhouse , Nottinghamshire ) is a British politician of the Liberal Democrats , who since 1997, with a two-year interruption, the constituency of Kingston and Surbiton in the House of Commons represents. From February 2012 to May 2015 he was Minister for Energy and Climate Change in the Cameron I cabinet .

Life

University degree, party official and member of the House of Commons

After attending Nottingham High School , Davey began studying philosophy, politics and economics at Jesus College at Oxford University in 1984 , from which he graduated in 1988 with a Bachelor of Arts (BA PPE). He was then in 1989, economic researchers at party headquarters of the Liberal Democrats, and next to it completed a postgraduate studies of economics at Birkbeck College of the University of London , which he with a Master of Science finished (M.Sc. Econ.). He then worked for a number of years as a management consultant at Omega Partners .

Davey, who chaired the Liberal Democrats' calculation group for the general election in 1992 and 1997, was also a member of his party's political committee and group on economics, taxes, profits and transport between 1994 and 1995.

In the general election on May 1, 1997 , Davey was elected as a candidate for the Liberal Democrats for the first time to the House of Commons and has since represented the constituency of Kingston and Surbiton . He was last re-elected in the general election on May 6, 2010 with 49.65 percent of the vote.

During his long term membership in parliament, Whip was his parliamentary group's whip between 1997 and 2000 and at the same time spokesman for treasury affairs, public expenditure and taxes until 1999 and then for economics until 2001 and also parliamentary group spokesman for London between 2000 and 2003 . He was also a member of various committees of the House of Commons between 1997 and 2001, namely the Committee on Procedures from 1997 to 2000 and the Finance Committee from 1999 to 2001.

In 2001, he was first in the Shadow Cabinet appointed his party and was initially Shadow Chief Secretary to the Treasury and then between 2002 and 2005 spokesman for the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister. After he was then shadow minister for education and skills and in 2006 for a short time shadow minister for trade and industry, he served between 2006 and 2007 as chief of staff of Menzies Campbell , the chairman of the Liberal Democrats. He then served as Shadow Minister for Foreign Affairs and Affairs of the Commonwealth of Nations until 2010 . He was also temporarily a member of the Association of Liberal Democrats and between 2006 and 2009 chairman of his party's campaign and communications committee.

Cabinet member

Following the general election on May 6, 2010, after the formation of the coalition government between the Conservative Party and the Liberal Democrats , Davey was appointed Parliamentary Undersecretary to the Ministry of Enterprise, Innovation and Skills, where he was responsible for industrial relations, consumers and the postal service.

Energy Minister Chris Huhne announced his resignation on February 3, 2012 . The reason for this was the allegation that his wife took responsibility for a speeding violation that he is said to have committed himself. On the same day, Huhne was charged and Davey was appointed by Prime Minister David Cameron to succeed him as the new Minister for Energy and Climate Change.

A few days after taking office, he officially opened the Walney offshore wind farm on February 9, 2012 .

Since 2015

In the general election in 2015 Davey lost his seat in parliament to the conservative James Berry , but was able to regain it in the early elections in 2017 . In the summer of 2019, Davey ran for the successor to Vince Cable as party leader, but was clearly defeated in a ballot among the members against Jo Swinson . In September 2019, he was elected vice-chairman of the party. After Swinson lost her seat in the general election in December 2019 and then resigned, Davey, together with party president Sal Brinton , temporarily took over the leadership of the Liberal Democrats. On August 27, 2020 it was announced that Davey had surpassed his opponent Layla Moran in the internal party vote and is now the elected LibDem party leader.

Others

At the New Year's ceremony in 2016, Davey was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II .

Web links

Commons : Edward Davey  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

• Biography on the homepage of the Ministry of Energy and Climate Change (accessed on June 10, 2012)
• Biography on the UK Parliament website (accessed June 10, 2012)
• Edward Davey at Hansard (English)
• Entry in They Work For You
• Profile ( June 22, 2009 memento on the Internet Archive ) in The Guardian
• Biography on the homepage of the Liberal Democrats
• Private homepage

Individual evidence

1. ↑ http://de.euronews.net/2012/02/03/britischer-energieminister-tritt-zurueck British energy minister resigns (Euronews of February 3, 2012)
2. ^ Ed Davey throws weight behind green energy by opening giant UK windfarm . The Guardian , February 9, 2012, accessed February 18, 2012. (English)
3. ↑ Election 2017: Which MPs are standing down and which hope to return? BBC News , April 21, 2017, accessed April 21, 2017 . 
4. ^ Information from the BBC
5. ^ Lib Dems: Jo Swinson becomes party's first female leader. BBC News, July 22, 2019, accessed the same day. (English)
6. ↑ I'm honored to be our new Deputy Leader. Press release from September 4, 2019 on the Liberal Democrats website, accessed December 15, 2019.
7. ↑ Leader of the Liberals loses seat in the lower house and resigns. Spiegel Online , December 13, 2019, accessed on the same day.
8. ↑ 'Wake up and smell the coffee': Ed Davey elected Lib Dem leader , The Guardian, August 27, 2020, accessed on the same date