David Davis MP

Conservative Member of Parliament for Goole and Pocklington

[David Davis MP @DavidDavisMP]

This is a total disgrace.

It is absolutely not the role of the police to intimidate members of the public - especially while openly admitting no law has been broken.

An affront to free speech and a massive overstep of authority.

The public expects the police to focus on real crime, like stopping burglaries, not squandering taxpayer funded time and abusing their powers by actively undermining free speech.

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[Alastair Hilton @London_W4]

I am having a drink this evening with a friend in a Chiswick pub. Two policemen have just come into the pub and asked me to step outside. I have stepped outside and they have threatened me because I tweeted about a councillor banning seating outside pubs in Chiswick. They admit on video (watch it!) that I did not break the law at all. They came to threaten me. To warn me off tweeting about councillors and the council. This is modern Britain. This is the police state. Please, please, please watch this video. It does involve me using very bad language, but this has got to be seen. Police coming out to threaten someone who hasn’t committed a crime. I’m fuming.

[David Davis MP @DavidDavisMP]

The Government has confirmed that its so called 'independent' Digital ID Advisory watchdog, will not have its minutes published.

We are expected to carry out parliamentary scrutiny on one of the most significant erosions of our civil liberties for decades, and yet we are not told the group budget, member selection process, or given the minutes from their meetings. Journalists have also been excluded from advisory panels.

The Government must give us answers on this sinister policy, and rethink its current course.

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[David Davis MP @DavidDavisMP]

There is growing speculation about the enforcement of Labour's social media ban for Under-16s involving restrictions or bans on VPNs.

Make no mistake, if this is introduced, it will mean an end to online privacy, and the state will know exactly who is looking at what at all times if they so choose.

The only other states with restrictions on VPNs are China, Russia, Iran, Oman, the UAE, Turkey and India.

This is a dark direction of policy even for the Labour Party.

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[David Davis MP @DavidDavisMP]

Today, two men who attacked a journalist on behalf of the Iranian regime have been jailed.

Past heads of the security services have warned of threats from the Iranian state to British citizens in the UK, and I have called on multiple occasions over many years for the Government to proscribe the IRGC.

The Government should stop swallowing Foreign Office excuses and get on with protecting UK citizens.

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[David Davis MP @DavidDavisMP]

Solar farm developers are inundating places like the East Riding - spoiling our countryside and riding roughshod over the explicit wishes of local residents.

Peartree Hill is just one example.

In my constituency alone, four proposed solar mega-farms will cover an area the size of the city of Oxford.

We wouldn't let a planning application for a new Oxford sized city go through effectively on the nod, yet that’s exactly what’s happening here.

This is unsustainable.

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[David Davis MP @DavidDavisMP]

The damning HMCPSI report confirms what many of us have argued for years: the CCRC is a broken system that stubbornly protects flawed convictions rather than uncovering the truth. The shocking treatment of Andrew Malkinson cannot be repeated. Urgent reform is non-negotiable.

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[David Davis MP @DavidDavisMP]

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[David Davis MP @DavidDavisMP]

Positive discrimination via DEI hiring may have been a necessary correction for past adverse treatment of various minorities, but it has now got to the point of doing serious harm to society.

Whether it is the undermining of our institutions or the destruction of social mobility for white boys, this is now creating a potentially irreversible rift in society.

We should replace it with real equality of opportunity for all and throw all these “protected characteristic” biases out the window.

That way we can have a real society which in Churchill’s terms allows “no limit to which anyone might climb, but a limit beneath which no one may fall".

A treasury that can’t do sums, and a university that excludes ordinary white youngsters helps nobody in the long run.

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[David Davis MP @DavidDavisMP]

The Defence Investment Plan published today says: "This Government's message to veterans is simple: we are on your side."

If that is true, then I look forward to Labour dropping their unworkable Troubles legislation, which will only serve to open brave veterans who served in Northern Ireland to vexatious lawfare.

[David Davis MP @DavidDavisMP]

I wrote on precisely this issue for the Telegraph last year.

My article here 👇🏻

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[David Davis MP @DavidDavisMP]

The proposed 'Gap Year' Foundation Scheme included in today's Defence Investment Plan is a good idea to give young people training and experience of what being in the Armed Forces is like.

Schemes like this will be instrumental in growing our Armed Forces by breaking down some of the barriers that stop people from joining in the first place.

However, we must go much further, much faster if we are to properly prepare for future armed conflict. That starts with rapidly expanding our reserve forces.

The @Conservatives policy announced this weekend is far more ambitious and sensible than the government's proposals.

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[David Davis MP @DavidDavisMP]

However, when Richard Williams, former Commanding Officer of 22 SAS from 2005 to 2008, and I went to Washington, we also heard concerns from US lawmakers that they believe Labour is undermining the UK's ability to contribute meaningfully to any form of military alliance by misapplying British human rights legislation.

That urgently needs to be addressed. Starting with Labour dropping their flawed Troubles legislation.

Read our concerns here 👇🏻

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[David Davis MP @DavidDavisMP]

The UK's Special Forces are some of the best - if not the best - in the world.

They are a praetorian guard that keeps us all safer, our democracy secure, and our many violent enemies hesitant to take us on.

I am glad to see the Government recognising this with a 12 per cent funding increase over the next four years.

[David Davis MP @DavidDavisMP]

As I argued in my recent article for the @Telegraph, the future of defence procurement will be based on small start-ups, not corporate monoliths.

I am therefore glad to see today's Defence Investment Plan prioritising spending with small businesses with an additional £2.5bn by 2028 - representing a 50 per cent increase in direct spending with SMEs.

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[David Davis MP @DavidDavisMP]

Today’s Defence Investment Plan promises to restore morale in our Armed Forces. The quickest way to do that? Give our troops total certainty.

The Government must signal that those deployed on operations won't return home to face vexatious lawfare.

That starts by dropping their flawed Troubles legislation, which risks exposing brave Northern Ireland veterans to endless legal pursuit.

[David Davis MP @DavidDavisMP]

This is a real issue, that started with Gordon Brown using PFI to hide public spending, which meant that we spent £275 billion to get £50 billion of assets: and has been worsened by governments of all colours, including the current one, being pathetic in their oversight both of privatised monopolies and public contracts.

See here 👇

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[David Davis MP @DavidDavisMP]

If you meet any MP or Minister at an Armed Forces Day event please ask them what are they doing to stop our Northern Ireland veterans being persecuted under the Troubles legislation.

Have they talked to Burnham about it?

Have they talked to Benn?

Will they vote against it?

[David Davis MP @DavidDavisMP]

The double standards on show in this case are staggering.

If a British citizen is accused of an offence affecting America, the US demands immediate extradition - regardless of whether that offence took place on US soil.

Yet when a US pilot commits a violent crime in the UK, we meekly cede jurisdiction to a foreign military court.

Our legal relationship with America remains hopelessly lopsided.

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[David Davis MP @DavidDavisMP]

In the Letby case, the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health identified the same problems. Yet the jury never saw that report. Instead, an individual was put forward as the explanation for institutional failure.

How many more warnings do we need?

Until we confront systemic failings, we will continue to put patients at risk - and we will continue to risk another hospital finding another scapegoat, and another miscarriage of justice.

[David Davis MP @DavidDavisMP]

The Ockenden Report should ring alarm bells for us all.

The same failings seen at Nottingham - infections, suboptimal conditions, insufficient consultant cover, overstretched staff - echo those found at the Countess of Chester Hospital.

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