The Right Honourable David Maurice Curry (born June 13, 1944) British politician He is the Conservative Member of Parliament for Skipton and Ripon.

David Curry, the son of a teacher, was educated at the Ripon Grammar School where he was head boy in 1962, and then at Corpus Christi College, Oxford where he received a Bachelor of Arts degree in modern history in 1966. He also attended the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. He began his career as a reporter on the Newcastle Journal in 1966. In 1970 he became the world trade editor at The Financial Times where he remained until he was elected to the European Parliament. In 1977 he founded the Paris Conservative Association. He contested the safe Labour seat at Morpeth at the February 1974 General Election, but was soundly beaten by the sitting Labour MP George Grant by 13,034. The two met again at the Octobert 1974 General Election, when on this occasion Grant won by 14,687. Curry was elected as a Member of the European Parliament in 1979 for Essex North East, he served in Strasbourg (and Brussels) until 1989.

David Curry was elected to the House of Commons for the very safe Conservative seat of Skipton and Ripon at the 1987 General Election on the retirement of the sitting Conservative MP John Watson. Curry held the seat with a strong majority of 17,174 and has held the seat safely since. On his election he became a member of the Agriculture Select Committee until he was promoted to the government of Margaret Thatcher in 1989 as the Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, and was promoted within the same department to Minister of State after the 1992 General Election by John Major, a year later he moved sideways to the Department for the Environment wher he remained until the Major government fell at the 1997 General Election. He became a Member of the Privy Council in 1996. In opposition he became the Shadow Agriculture Secretary, but resigned from the Shadow Cabinet in December 1997 in protest at the policy of ruling out Britain joining the single European currency for the next ten years. In 1998 he became the chairman of the Agriculture Select Committee, and after the 2001 General Election, its successor the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Select Committee until 2003 when he promoted again to the Shadow Cabinet by Michael Howard as the Shadow Local and Develoved Government Secretary until he resigned again, this time citing 'family reasons' in 2004^*, he was replaced by Caroline Spelman. He has been a member of the Public Accounts Select Committee since 2004.

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bhavaniskitchen (Bhavani) Sun, 08 Nov 2009 04:30:36 -0000
Australian David Thompson-extraordinary Thai chef and original ...: The air was heady with freshy roasted curry.. http://bit.ly/379IVx
RT @anthonyrh33: Curry, beer and boxing! What a great Saturday night. Looking forward to watching David Haye going for the Heavyweight Title
markjhodges (mark hodges) Sat, 07 Nov 2009 20:55:19 -0000
RT @anthonyrh33: Curry, beer and boxing! What a great Saturday night. Looking forward to watching David Haye going for the Heavyweight Title
Curry, beer and boxing! What a great Saturday night. Looking forward to watching David Haye going for the Heavyweight Championship V's Giant
anthonyrh33 (Anthony Hammond) Sat, 07 Nov 2009 20:51:14 -0000
Curry, beer and boxing! What a great Saturday night. Looking forward to watching David Haye going for the Heavyweight Championship V's Giant
Watching Wales play NZ and eating curry, this can only get better if Wales win now and David Haye wins later...
Steve_Lovell_90 (Steven Lovell) Sat, 07 Nov 2009 18:22:29 -0000
Watching Wales play NZ and eating curry, this can only get better if Wales win now and David Haye wins later...
Am looking forward 2 seeing friends...curry...drinkies...x-factor and hopefully David Haye winning this evening.
Vicky1978 (Vicky Bower) Sat, 07 Nov 2009 18:15:19 -0000
Am looking forward 2 seeing friends...curry...drinkies...x-factor and hopefully David Haye winning this evening.
is wearing really stupid shoes now. Oh and David Curry is a good speaker. Loving the political jibes...
DJSEAG (Bryony Seager) Fri, 06 Nov 2009 17:47:21 -0000
is wearing really stupid shoes now. Oh and David Curry is a good speaker. Loving the political jibes...

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