Background
Davies was born in Cynwyl Elfed, Carmarthenshire.
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Denzil Davies
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He attended Queen Elizabeth"s Grammar School for Boys in Carmarthen, and then Pembroke College, Oxford, where he graduated with a First Class Honours Bachelor in Law and Gray"s Inn where he qualified as a barrister.
Career
He lectured in Law at Chicago University in 1963 and the University of Leeds from 1964. He practised at the tax bar between 1967 and 1975. Later he also practised in the field of personal injuries and served as a head of chambers.
Davies as a Treasury Minister in James Callaghan"s Government.
He was seen as a Eurosceptic, and he opposed the National Assembly for Wales. Davies served in a number of posts when Labour formed the Official Opposition after the election of Margaret Thatcher in 1979, including Shadow Secretary of State for Wales in Michael Foot"s Shadow Cabinet and Shadow Secretary of State for Defence in Neil Kinnock"son
Like his predecessor as Shadow Defence Secretary, John Silkin, he resigned from the front bench in June 1988 in protest at Neil Kinnock"s management style. The trigger for his resignation was Neil Kinnock"s announcement, without reference to Davies or the Shadow Cabinet, of a change in Labour"s defence policy from unilateral nuclear disarmament to multilateral nuclear disarmament then back to unilateral nuclear disarmament over a period of three days.
He made an unsuccessful bid for the Labour Party deputy leadership in 1983.
He was one of the few Labour MPs with ministerial experience remaining after the 1997 landslide that returning Labour to power after 18 years in opposition. He stood down at the 2005 general election, and was replaced by Nia Griffith.
Membership
45th United Kingdom Parliament. 46th United Kingdom Parliament. 47th United Kingdom Parliament.
48th United Kingdom Parliament.
49th United Kingdom Parliament. 50th United Kingdom Parliament.
51st United Kingdom Parliament. 52nd United Kingdom Parliament.
53rd United Kingdom Parliament]
He served for 35 years as the Member of Parliament (Member of Parliament) for Llanelli for the Labour Party from 1970 to 2005, and is a member of the Privy Council.
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