Philip Davies

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Philip Davies (1972–) is a British politician. A member of the Conservative Party, he was the Member of Parliament for Shipley in West Yorkshire from 2005 to 2024 when he was defeated.

On the right-wing of his party, Davies used the filibuster to stop parliamentary bills on such issues as animal welfare and women's rights.[2][3] Davies wrote many letters to the Equality and Human Rights Commission enquiring if different racist jokes are offensive enough.[4] A campaigner against political correctness, he called for anti-male comments to be covered by hate crime legislation.[5]

Despite the three main parties being in broad consensus on the issue, Davies opposed the minimum wage and believes all of the nation's economic problems would be solved with the repeal of the National Minimum Wage Act 1998. Meanwhile, he thinks all of our social problems would be solved if prisoners had a truly horrible experience while behind bars, rather than any rehabilitation or education.

He was one of six (out of 650) members of the House of Commons against any kind of parliamentary reform of Parliament, including expenses, a significant issue after the expenses scandal erupted in 2009. Unsurprisingly, his expenses were some of the highest among MPs.

In 2018, he was accused of trapping female comedian Luisa Omielan in his Westminster office, holding the door shut to stop her leaving after a disputatious interview about healthcare.[6]

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