David Davis by-election campaign, 2008 David Davis by-election campaign, 2008 The David Davis by-election campaign of 2008 was a political campaign against the erosion of civil liberties in the United Kingdom, led by the former Conservative Member of Parliament (MP), David Davis, labelled by Davis as the David Davis For Freedom campaign. The campaign was initiated in June 2008, following Davis's surprise resignation as an MP and from his position as the Shadow Home Secretary, and was the platform he used in standing for re-election to his seat in the subsequent Haltemprice and Howden by-election. Davis subsequently won his seat back with 72% of the
George Hargreaves (politician) Parliament election. Hargreaves also founded the Welsh Christian Party to contest the National Assembly for Wales election, 2007. Hargreaves stood for the Christian Party at the Haltemprice and Howden by-election, 2008, where he asked the Haltemprice and Howden electorate to use their vote to demand a referendum on the European Union, which he believes to be "the greatest threat to our civil liberties". In August 2008, Hargreaves fronted the Channel 4 programme "Make Me a Christian". He had planned to stand in the Western Isles in the 2010 general election, but withdrew his candidacy in February 2010 after his wife's