The Lord Davies of Gower | |
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Shadow Secretary of State for Wales | |
In office 8 July 2024 – 5 November 2024 | |
Leader | Rishi Sunak |
Preceded by | Jo Stevens |
Succeeded by | Mims Davies |
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Maritime and Security | |
In office 14 November 2023 – 5 July 2024 | |
Prime Minister | Rishi Sunak |
Preceded by | The Baroness Vere of Norbiton |
Succeeded by | Mike Kane |
Lord-in-Waiting Government Whip | |
In office 22 September 2022 – 14 November 2023 | |
Prime Minister | Liz Truss Rishi Sunak[1] |
Succeeded by | The Lord Gascoigne |
Member of the House of Lords Lord Temporal | |
Assumed office 10 October 2019 Life Peerage | |
Member of Parliament for Gower | |
In office 7 May 2015 – 3 May 2017 | |
Preceded by | Martin Caton |
Succeeded by | Tonia Antoniazzi |
Member of the Welsh Assembly for South Wales West | |
In office 6 May 2011 – 15 May 2015[2] | |
Preceded by | David Lloyd |
Succeeded by | Altaf Hussain |
Personal details | |
Born | Swansea, Wales | 4 September 1952
Political party | Conservative |
Alma mater | University of West London |
Henry Byron Davies, Baron Davies of Gower (born 4 September 1952), is a Welsh Conservative politician, Life Peer and former Metropolitan Police Detective Chief Inspector.
President of the Welsh Conservative Party since 2020, Lord Davies served as Shadow Secretary of State for Wales from July to November 2024. He was a Member of the Welsh Assembly for South Wales West from 2011 to 2015, and Member of Parliament for Gower from 2015 to 2017, before being elevated to the peerage in 2019.
Lord Davies currently serves as an Opposition spokesman for Home affairs in the House of Lords, since 11 November 2024.[3]