Liz Davies

Who is Liz Davies?

Liz Davies is a British barrister and political activist who advocates "socialist feminism". She is the daughter of retired Oxford academic and historian of Tudor England, C. S. L. Davies.

Specialising in housing law, Davies initially worked as a solicitor before being called to the bar in 1994. A former Labour Party councillor in Islington, she was selected as the Labour Prospective Parliamentary Candidate for Leeds North-East in 1995, but was subsequently found "unsuitable" as a candidate by a large majority of the Labour Party's ruling National Executive Committee. Davies' selection was accompanied by allegations over her behaviour at Labour group meetings, for which Davies' later commenced legal proceedings against three former Islington councillors, which ended in a settlement in which the three apologised and made a contribution to the general election fund of their local MP. She was also attacked for her association with the newspaper London Left Briefing; its connections to trotskyist groups was used against Davies. She was elected as a member of the NEC in October 1998 on the Grassroots Alliance slate, serving on the body for two years, an experience recounted in her book.