Stanley Clinton Davis, Baron Clinton-Davis

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Stanley Clinton Davis, Baron Clinton-Davis, PC (born 6 December 1928) is a British Labour Party politician.

Davis was educated at Hackney Down's School, the Mercer's School and King's College London, and became a solicitor.

Davis was elected as Member of Parliament for Hackney Central at the 1970 general election and held theat until it was abolished in boundary changes for the 1983 general election. Davis was a junior minister for Trade during the 1974-1979 Labour government.

Davis was appointed a European Commissioner in the Delors Commission 1985-89, responsible for Environment Policy, Nuclear Safety and Transport. He became a life peer as Baron Clinton-Davis, of Hackney in the London Borough of Hackney in 1990 and was chair of the Refugee Council 1989-97. Following the Labour victory in the 1997 general election, Clinton-Davis once again became a minister at the Department of Trade and Industry.

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• Times Guide to the House of Commons, 1979
• This page incorporates information from Leigh Rayment's Peerage Page.