Daniel Kawczynski

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Daniel Robert Kawczynski (born January 24, 1972) is the Conservative Party Member for Parliament for Shrewsbury and Atcham in Shropshire, England.

Kawczynski's family came to Britain from Poland in 1940, after Poland's invasion by the German army. He was educated at the University of Stirling (reading business studies with languages) and was President of the University Conservative Association in 1991. Whilst president Daniel led a renaissance in the Stirling Conservative Association and ensured the re-election of the sitting Conservative MP for Stirling, Michael Forsyth. He rented a room in a house on Short Heath Rd, Erdington in his late teens and early twenties.

Kawczynski first stood for Parliament in the 2001 general election for Ealing Southall and came a distant second with 18% of the vote. However, he would win a seat for Shrewsbury and Atcham at the 2005 general election, succeeding Labourite Paul Marsden.

At 6 feet 8½ inches, he is believed to be the tallest MP ever to sit in the Parliament of the United Kingdom.

Kawczyski was also unintentionally profiled on the American satirical program The Colbert Report on its 12 December 2006 episode, when Colbert was intending to profile as many American Congresspeople as possible during a Harvard University gathering for incoming deputies, which was in reply to incoming Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi's off-hand comment that Colbert could not profile all Congresspeople. Despite Kawczynski's non-membership in the House of Representatives was made obvious, he was counted anyway for comedic effect.