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|birth_place = Farnham, England |death_date = |death_place = |party = Liberal Democrats |partner = James Lundie |alma_mater = King's College, Cambridge }} David Anthony Laws (born 30 November 1965) is a British Liberal Democrat politician. The Member of Parliament (MP) for Yeovil from 2001 to 2015, he was a Minister of State for Schools and the Cabinet Office, where he had a cross-departmental role working on the Coalition Agreement and government policy. Laws was briefly a Cabinet Minister in 2010, as Chief Secretary to the Treasury. He held office for 17 days before resigning due to the disclosure of his Parliamentary expenses claims, described by the Parliamentary Standards and Privileges Committee as "a series of serious breaches of the rules, over a considerable period of time".〔 In consequence of the breaches he was suspended from Parliament by vote of the House of Commons. After a career in investment banking, Laws became an economic adviser and later Director of Policy and Research for the Liberal Democrats. In 2001, he was elected as the MP for Yeovil, the seat previously represented by former Liberal Democrat leader Paddy Ashdown. In 2004, he co-edited ''The Orange Book: Reclaiming Liberalism'', followed by ''Britain After Blair'' in 2006. After the 2010 general election, Laws led negotiations for the Liberal Democrats which resulted in a coalition with the Conservative Party. ==Early life and education== Laws was born in Farnham, Surrey,〔(David Laws; Five things I have learned ) BBC News, 14 March 2010,〕 son of a Conservative voting father who was a banker, and a Labour voting mother. He would later joke that he was the "perfect fusion" as a Liberal Democrat. He has an older brother and a younger sister, both adopted.〔(Daily Mail, 28 September 2012, )〕 Laws was educated at fee-paying independent schools: Woburn Hill School in the town of Weybridge, Surrey, from 1974 to 1979;〔 and St George's College, Weybridge, a Roman Catholic day school in the same town, from 1979 to 1984. Regarded as a skilled speaker in intellectual argument, he won the national Observer Schools Mace Debating Championship in 1984.〔 Laws graduated in 1987 from King's College, Cambridge, with a double first in economics. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「David Laws」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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