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This article is about a former UK Member of Parliament. For other people with the same name, see David Ashby (disambiguation).

David Glynn Ashby (born 14 May 1940) was the Conservative Member of Parliament in the United Kingdom for North West Leicestershire from 1983 until he stood down in 1997.

David Ashby
Born
David Glyn Ashby

(1940-05-14) 14 May 1940 (age 84)
Occupation(s)Lawyer and Politician
Political partyConservative Party

Ashby was both a criminal barrister (1963-2001) and a British politician. His political career spanned over twenty years, starting in 1968 as a local Conservative councillor for Hammersmith (Greater London) where he was Chairman for Housing and then progressing as a Conservative Councillor for the Greater London Council (GLC) representing Eltham from 1977–1981.[citation needed] While at the GLC (subsequently dissolved under Margaret Thatcher's government in 1986), he was Chairman of Housing and Management and campaigned fervently for a fairer system of council house distribution by moving power to the boroughs and decentralising.[citation needed] In 1983 he was elected as a Conservative Member of Parliament for Leicestershire NW, seen as a marginal seat. He was a back-bench MP under both the Thatcher and the Major governments and sat on many committees including the Home Affairs and Freedom of Information committees.[citation needed]

During the "Back to Basics" campaign run in 1994 by the Major government, Ashby came under media scrutiny after his wife claimed that during a trip he had shared a hotel bed with another man supposedly due to the unavailability of a twin-bedded room.[1][2]

Ashby refused to name the other man concerned, but later stated he was seeking legal advice about newspaper articles that reported his wife as saying that Ashby had left her for another man, attributing his marriage breakdown instead to the long hours in Parliament and to a growing rift between them.[3]

References

  1. ^ Williams, Rhys (10 January 1994). "Tories in Turmoil: MP denies homosexual affair: David Ashby: Wife blames marital problems on long hours in Parliament". The Independent.
  2. ^ Percival, Jenny (6 June 2008). "Background Conservative scandals: Chichester joins a long list". The Guardian. Retrieved 17 January 2011.
  3. ^ Williams, Rhys (11 January 1994). "* Tories in Turmoil". The Independent.

Further reading

  • Times Guide to the House of Commons, Times Newspapers Limited, 1992 and 1997 editions.
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