Christopher Graham Chris Davies (born 7 July1954 in Lytham St Annes, Lancashire) is a Liberal Democrat politician in the United Kingdom. Image File history File linksMetadata Chris_davies_mep. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Chris_davies_mep. ... July 7 is the 188th day of the year (189th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 177 days remaining. ... 1954 (MCMLIV) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Map sources for Lytham St Annes at grid reference SD342278 Lytham St Annes is a town in the Fylde district of Lancashire, England. ... Lancashire is a county and duchy palatine in the North of England, bounded to the west by the Irish Sea. ... The Liberal Democrats, often shortened to Lib Dems, are a liberal political party based in the United Kingdom. ...
He won a parliamentary by-election in 1995 to the Littleborough and Saddleworth constituency to replace the deceased Geoffrey Dickens and served as an MP for two years, losing the successor seat of Oldham East and Saddleworth at the 1997 general election. He was elected as a Member of the European Parliament for the North West England constituency in 1999. Location within the British Isles Littleborough is a small town on the western side of the Pennines, which forms part of the Metropolitan Borough of Rochdale. ... Saddleworth is a civil parish in the Metropolitan Borough of Oldham, in North West England. ... Oldham East and Saddleworth is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. ... The UK general election, 1997 was held on 1 May 1997. ... A Member of the European Parliament (English abbreviation MEP) is a member of the European Unions directly-elected legislative body, the European Parliament. ... North West England is one of the regions of England. ...
On January 6, 2006, amid the Liberal Democrats leadership crisis, Davies described Charles Kennedy as a "dead man walking" at the time when Kennedy was refusing to resign. He resigned as leader of the Liberal Democrat group in the European Parliament on 4 May2006 following an acrimonious exchange of emails with correspondents of the Jewish News newspaper which got out of hand. January 6 is the 6th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 2006 (MMVI) is a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Rt. ... May 4 is the 124th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (125th in leap years). ... 2006 (MMVI) is a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Christopher Graham ChrisDavies (born 7 July1954 in Lytham St Annes, Lancashire) is a Liberal Democrat politician in the United Kingdom.
He won a parliamentary by-election in 1995 to the Littleborough and Saddleworth constituency to replace the deceased Geoffrey Dickens and served as an MP for two years, losing the successor seat of Oldham East and Saddleworth at the 1997 general election.
On January 6, 2006, amid the Liberal Democrats leadership crisis, Davies described Charles Kennedy as a "dead man walking" at the time when Kennedy was refusing to resign.
Davies' public airing of his views in the Brussel-based magazine The Sprout, a European Union-watching publication, puts Davies ahead of the official platform of the British Liberal Democratic Party, which calls for the regulated supply of marijuana "in the longer term" and for not arresting drug users, but not for legalizing any other drugs.
ChrisDavies "Prohibition is taking us nowhere, and leaving the trade in the hands of criminal gangs," Davies wrote in the article now being widely reported on in the British press.
Davies' comments come little more than a month after the long-suppressed "Birt report" on British drug policy was made public.
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