Before joining GFP, David served as a Member of the UK Parliament for seven years. During his time as a parliamentarian, he shadowed the UK Government’s largest spending department; served as an influential member of the Work & Pensions select committee; regularly appeared on national broadcast media as one of his party’s most consistent communicators and led the work of several All Party Parliamentary Groups. Prior to his election as an MP, David had already amassed almost a decade of experience working with media and on research within the Scottish, Westminster and European Parliaments.