David Davies

David Thomas Charles Davies is a British politician who has served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Monmouth in South East Wales since 2005. A member of the Conservative Party, he chaired the Welsh Affairs Select Committee from 2010 to 2019. Davies has served as Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Wales since 2019. A vocal critic of the European Union (EU), he supported Brexit in the 2016 membership referendum. Having previously questioned the scientific evidence for the role of human factors in global warming, Davies said in 2019 he supported the UK government's intention to become carbon neutral by 2050 and that he fully accepted the link between carbon dioxide and climate change.