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
Norman Scarth Sedgefield (receiving 34 votes, 0.1%); and in 2008 in Haltemprice and Howden (receiving 8 votes, 0.0%). In Sedgefield, police were called to move him when he campaigned outside a supermarket. In Haltemprice and Howden he came joint last with 8 votes. He stood on an anti-crime platform and argued that "modern surveillance methods were as bad as the Nazis'". Scarth has also stood for his own Anti-Crime Party in local elections in Bradford, first standing in Bingley in 2007. He was arrested for shouting through a loudhailer outside a polling station in 2008, and challenged the election result, in which