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

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 belonging to the Labour Party

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Clinton Davis was educated at Hackney Downs School

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, the Mercers' School

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, and at King's College London

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 where he graduated in Law in 1950. He later became a solicitor.

Clinton Davis was elected as Member of Parliament for Hackney Central

Hackney Central (UK Parliament constituency)

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 at the 1970 general election

United Kingdom general election, 1970

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 and held the seat until it was abolished in boundary changes for the 1983 general election

United Kingdom general election, 1983

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. Clinton Davis was a junior minister for Trade during the 1974–1979 Labour government.

Clinton Davis was appointed a European Commissioner

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 in the Delors Commission

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 1985–88, responsible for the environment, consumer protection and transport

European Commissioner for Transport

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. He became a life peer

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 as Baron Clinton-Davis, of Hackney in the London Borough of Hackney

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 in 1990 and was chair of the Refugee Council

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 1989–97. Following the Labour victory in the 1997 general election

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, Clinton-Davis once again became a minister at the Department of Trade and Industry.

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