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'David John Denzil Davies' (born 9 October, 1938, Carmarthen) was the Welsh Member of Parliament for Llanelli for the Labour Party from 1970 to 2005, and a member of the Privy Council.
He attended Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School, Pembroke College, Oxford where he graduated with First Class Honours in Law and Gray's Inn where he qualified as a barrister. He lectured in Law at Chicago University and the University of Leeds.
For four years when Margaret Thatcher was Prime Minister, he served as Shadow Secretary of State for Defence. He resigned from the front bench in 1988 in protest at Neil Kinnock's management style. Known as a Eurosceptic, he made an unsuccessful bid for the Labour Party leadership in the 1994 election in protest of European centralisation.
He was one of the few Labour MPs in the House at the time of the 1997 landslide returning Labour to power to have experience of government under James Callaghan who he served as a Treasury Minister. He is seen as a Eurosceptic, and opposed the National Assembly for Wales.
He stood down at the 2005 general election, and was replaced by Nia Griffith.

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