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Quentin Davies at the House of Commons
Quentin Davies MP
Labour MP for Grantham and Stamford

Welcome

A personal message from Quentin:

I am honoured and delighted to have been re-elected in the 2005 General Election.

It has been an enormous privilege to have represented the area at Westminster since 1987. I have always striven to do my very best for my constituents, collectively and individually.

I look forward to meeting many of you whilst out and about in the constituency. Meanwhile, if you have any concerns or issues you would like to raise then please do not hesitate to contact me.

Quentin Davies Resignation from the Conservative Party: Letter to David Cameron and statement to Press

Letter to David Cameron

Rt. Hon. David Cameron M.P.
Leader of the Conservative Party
House of Commons
London
SWIA OAA

26 June 2007

I have been a member of the Conservative Party for over 30 years, and have served for 20 years in the Parliamentary Party, in a variety of backbench and front bench roles. This has usually been a great pleasure, and always a great privilege. It is therefore with much sadness that I write you this letter. But you are entitled to know the truth.

Under your leadership the Conservative Party appears to me to have ceased collectively to believe in anything, or to stand for anything. It has no bedrock. It exists on shifting sands. A sense of mission has been replaced by a PR agenda.

"Leaving a political party" : Article submitted to local papers 27 June 2007

Article | National Politics

Leaving a political party and joining another is not an easy thing to do. But what do you do as an M.P. if you become convinced that your own party has gone irretrievably off the rails, and another one really does now stand for the things you have always believed in?

There are only three things you can do in those circumstances. Leave public life altogether. Just suppress your honest judgement, and pretend to everyone that you are perfectly happy – which means mouthing falsehoods every time you make a political comment. Or “cross the floor” of the House.

I excluded the first and the second. To leave public life because circumstances had proved difficult would be an abdication.

Contact Quentin

House of Commons

House of Commons
London
SW1A OAA

Private Secretary: Jane Gordon-Cumming

Parliamentary Assistant: Chantal Davies

Tel: 0207 219 5518

Fax: 0207 219 2963

Email: daviesq@parliament.uk