# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/david-laws
# Generated: 2026-08-12T23:31:34.521Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/david-laws"
name: "David Laws"
slug: "david-laws"
description: "David Anthony Laws is a British politician who served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Yeovil from 2001 to 2015. A member of the Liberal Democrats, in his third parliament he served at the outset as a Cabinet Minister, in 2010, as Chief Secretary to the Treasury; as well as later concurrently as Minister of State for Schools and Minister Assisting the Deputy Prime Minister – an office where he worked cross-departmentally on implementing the coalition agreement in policies - from 2012 to 2015."
tagline: "British politician (born 1965)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/David_Laws_MP_at_Bournemouth.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Politicians"
  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1965-11-30"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           12.253064
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "http://www.davidlaws.org.uk/"
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    title: "David Laws"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "David Laws"
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    title: "David Laws"
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    title: "David Laws"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "데이비드 로스 (정치인)"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "David Laws"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump