David Davis quits as MP to force 42 days by-election
The BBC says: Shadow home secretary David Davis is set to resign as an MP, the BBC understands. It is thought he wants to trigger a by-election in his Haltemprice and Howden seat. Mr Davis has been a...
View ArticleThe David Davis resignation: what it means
Lib Dem Voice yesterday highlighted the contrast between David Davis’s passionate opposition to Labour’s attempts to bang up citizens for six weeks without telling them why, and the rather more...
View ArticleWhat’s going on in the Conservative Party?
The media are increasingly turning to reporting strains within the Conservative Party over David Davsis’s dramatic resignation. For example, Nick Robinson on David Davis’s resignation: David Cameron...
View ArticleNEW POLL: should the Lib Dems stand in Haltemprice & Howden?
By popular demand… following David Davis’s shock decision today to quit both as Tory shadow home secretary and MP for Haltemprice & Howden – and force a by-election over Labour’s 42 days detention...
View ArticleLib Dem candidate in Haltemprice & Howden speaks out
The Voice has got its hands on the press statement from David Nolan, the Liberal Democrat candidate in Haltemprice & Howden: As David Davis is standing on the one single issue of opposing 42 day...
View ArticleSimon Hughes: why the Lib Dems will not stand against David Davis
This is the text of the email just sent by Lib Dem president Simon Hughes explaining the party’s decision not to contest the forthcoming Haltemprice & Howden by-election triggered by David Davis’s...
View ArticleWhat the papers say about David Davis
Daily Telegraph: Tensions with David Cameron lay behind David Davis’s resignation The Economist: Davis blows his top Financial Times: Going out in a blaze of glory The Guardian: Tories in turmoil as...
View ArticleWhat do party members in Haltemprice & Howden think?
Last night’s local fundraising dinner was, as it turns out, remarkably well timed, and this is what members made of it all, “All I think I can say in summary is that although there will be many in...
View ArticleDown and dirty with the tabloid press
Kelvin MacKenzie’s phone must be in meltdown. Good! BURN him, BURN him! Ahem. The former Sun editor and fervent supporter of a 42-day detention limit has indicated that he will stand against David...
View ArticleFour pieces of mostly unconnected news
One: Mark Penn, formerly of Hilary Clinton’s Presidential campaign, tells people in US that it was he who ran Labour’s 2005 general election campaign. I suspect that’d be news to quite a few in the...
View ArticleOpinion: Why we should stand against David Davis
It is no secret to any regular reader of the comments on these pages that I am bitterly disappointed by the decision that the Liberal Democrats will not be standing against David Davis in the upcoming...
View ArticleDavis: I quit to stop Tory U-turn on 42 days
In the first hour after David Davis quit as an MP last Thursday, I suggested the reason underpinning his decision: Mr Davis recognised that the Tories’ influential neo-cons in the shadow cabinet,...
View ArticleThe most unlikely by-election candidate suggestion so far
So you’re thinking of running a candidate against David Davis because you support 42 days detention without trial. And you think it would be a good idea for that person to be the victim of an act of...
View ArticleOpinion: Greens may do well in Haltemprice and Howden
The decision by the Lib Dem leadership to allow David Davis to resign in the comfortable knowledge that no Liberal Democrat would oppose him was a strange one. Without Lib Dem acquiescence, the...
View ArticleDavid Davis: a bounder and a braggart
UPDATE: There is an update to this story, published the following day on Lib Dem Voice, in which The Guardian makes clear that the quote on which this posting was based was not uttered by David Davis....
View ArticleThe day David Davis threatened to punch Mark Oaten
As revealed by Mark Oaten over at the Indy’s Open House blog: We haven’t always been the best of friends: he once threatened to punch my nose in, and I’ve described him as disgusting. The reason: When...
View ArticleDavid Davis APOLOGY alert: Grauniad confirms slip-up
Yesterday I noted with some dismay a quote attributed to David Davis in The Guardian, suggesting that the Lib Dems had ‘funked’ putting up a candidate in today’s Haltemprice and Howden by-election –...
View ArticleOpen (speculation) thread: What do you think will happen in Haltemprice and...
It’s the day of the most bizarre by-election of the year. Exactly one month after David Davis shocked the political world by quitting the Tory front bench and Parliament in protest at Labour’s attempts...
View ArticleDavis wins by-election with 75% vote on a 35% turnout
Well, that’s what the Yorkshire Post is saying, anyway, as of 12.30 am: David Davis was tonight expected to easily win the Haltemprice and Howden by-election, with supporters predicting he would pick...
View ArticleHaltemprice and Howden: what lessons to be learned?
The close-of-poll predictions last night proved to be pretty accurate: David Davis easily won in yesterday’s Haltemprice and Howden by-election, with a solid 72% of the vote. The turnout was 34%, and...
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