David Davis MP

Conservative Member of Parliament for Goole and Pocklington

[David Davis MP @DavidDavisMP]

Yesterday's King's Speech had several good ideas.

However, it failed to address many of the serious issues facing the UK, including welfare spending, education, healthcare and the armed forces.

My speech on the King's Speech here👇

https://t.co/wHq2VbJVme

[David Davis MP @DavidDavisMP]

The case of Andrew Malkinson is a grave miscarriage of justice and today’s news only underlines how badly he has been failed by the state.

With the real rapist, Paul Quinn, now finally convicted and deservedly sentenced to 24 years, it is clearer than ever that the system not only punished an innocent man but left a dangerous offender free for years.

This scandal raises profound questions about the way our justice system investigates, prosecutes and compensates the innocent – and Parliament must not rest until the system is reformed so this can never happen again.

Andrew Malkinson has understandably responded to today's sentencing, stating he is "insulted". He has every right to be.

https://t.co/6LoXidiuLo

[David Davis MP @DavidDavisMP]

Banking Hubs and Post Offices are lifelines for communities losing traditional bank branches.

Yet Lloyds Bank is the only major British bank that doesn't allow customers to deposit cheques at Banking Hubs and Post Offices. This hits local businesses, the elderly, and rural areas hardest.

That’s why I’ve joined over 120 colleagues in writing to Lloyds Bank to demand they reverse this policy 👇

[David Davis MP @DavidDavisMP]

The big question in all of this is why were these messages between Darren Jones and Peter Mandelson not released on Monday alongside all the other Humble Address documents?

The Humble Address is clear that "electronic communications… between Lord Mandelson and ministers… during his time as Ambassador" must be released to Parliament - that is exactly what these messages between Darren Jones and Peter Mandelson are.

The Cabinet Office, which Darren Jones is in charge of, oversees this process, and it is beginning to look as though that department cannot be trusted to make politically sensitive decisions.

In my mind, we now need an independent third party, not subject to the pressures of the Government, to review this matter.

The most natural option would be for the National Audit Office to look at this. When I was chair of the Public Accounts Committee, the NAO had access to every single document in government no matter how highly classified.

The NAO could review the information and documents the Government holds and provide reassurance that the demands of the Humble Address are being properly complied with.

https://t.co/BXZKw3DoyR

[David Davis MP @DavidDavisMP]

This is a much welcome decision.

The Scottish Government has spent years resisting the release of these documents.

The Scottish Information Commissioner deserves great credit for doggedly pursuing the case and standing up for transparency and freedom of information.

https://t.co/livKkMNBCx

[David Davis MP @DavidDavisMP]

Sir Alex Younger was a great patriot who understood that our values are not a weakness, but our greatest strength.

“If we undermine the values we defend, even in the name of defending them, then we have lost” - a view held by more of the agency heads than many realise.

https://t.co/yvUpHxDoo9

[David Davis MP @DavidDavisMP]

The entire report from the Science, Innovation and Technology Committee is well worth a read, and contains some urgent recommendations for our government.

https://t.co/6HGITegXNO

[David Davis MP @DavidDavisMP]

Today's report from the @CommonsSITC is a vital read for anyone interested in the future of our country's digital infrastructure.

It contains some damning conclusions about our overreliance on large, foreign IT providers, the importance of protecting citizens' data, and the wisdom of the Government's proposed digital ID scheme.

[David Davis MP @DavidDavisMP]

I have also raised these concerns before.

Palantir has a history of offering free "trial periods" for their products before going on to be directly awarded public-sector contracts.

It is a clear tactic to gain a commercial foothold in the UK and make it difficult to move away from Palantir products in the future.

https://t.co/X0e1KtMdZ4

[David Davis MP @DavidDavisMP]

They are a team of stars.

The NHS could not work without such talented and dedicated people.

We are lucky to have them.

[David Davis MP @DavidDavisMP]

This is my team of nurses who looked after me all night at @GSTTnhs A&E.

They were brilliant, incredibly friendly, and very effective.

My grateful thanks to them all on my own behalf and all of the others who they have helped in the middle of the night.

[David Davis MP @DavidDavisMP]

As part of his Developed Vetting, Peter Mandelson was only required to declare foreign contacts with whom he had "CURRENT or recent contact".

A key question for Government: does that mean Mandelson did not make clear his previous contact with Russians, such as Oleg Deripaska, or his Chinese business links? Were these considered as part of his failed security vetting?

In April, I wrote this Substack as to why those links require serious scrutiny: https://t.co/VbcO0vYC4q

[David Davis MP @DavidDavisMP]

I am sure more will be discovered in these files in the coming hours and days, but serious questions remain about both Peter Mandelson's and the Government's behaviour in this scandal.

A debate on this matter has been scheduled for Wednesday - the Government must come to the House with some proper answers.

[David Davis MP @DavidDavisMP]

The latest Mandelson file release contains some embarrassing revelations across its 1,504 pages.

However, many of them are simply embarrassing for ministers and the Government. They do not go to the heart of the issue: why Keir Starmer ever believed it appropriate to appoint Peter Mandelson as our ambassador.

Several key questions remain unanswered 👇🏻

[David Davis MP @DavidDavisMP]

There are also concerns about what is not in these releases. For example, many ministers have provided their WhatsApp messages.

Others have not released their messages.

This goes to the heart of why we must ban ministers from conducting official business on private devices and through non-secure systems such as WhatsApp, where messages can be set to self-delete.

Parliament's Intelligence and Security Committee raised this very issue in May.