At last, it’s official. David Davies, the right-wing, anti-Assembly MP for Monmouth, is officially a maverick.
Not often, do Welshmen ever make it to the London press. Today, this descendant of Owain Glyndwr has managed it.
In The Independent’s Pandora political gossip column, he is tagged “Tory maverick”.
No reason is given for the tag. I’m sure, my readers don’t need enlightening.
They will, anyway, be glad to know that Mr Davies knows where he is not welcome within the Tory family. When the party held it annual southern policy forum conference in Cardiff (a get-together of the party’s real hard workers, mainly councillors) neither Mr Davies nor his equally infamous father Peter, a member of Newport council, were present.
The forum attracts only those with their feet solidly on the ground. Which excludes mavericks. I suppose the aged hand-’em and flog’em member who managed to creep in and make a “contribution” doesn’t really count as a maverick, merely as an old-timer !
