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David Willetts David Lindsay Willetts (born March 9, 1956) is the Conservative member of Parliament for Havant, in the United Kingdom. He is also chairman of the board of Universal Biosensors Ltd , and holds shares in its parent company, Sensor-Tech Limited . He currently serves as head of policy co-ordination in the Shadow Cabinet, under Michael Howard. Under Iain Duncan Smith he had been Shadow Secretary of State for Work and Pensions. He had been a whip under John Major but was forced to resign by the Standards and Privileges Committee over an investigation into Neil Hamilton, in 1996 when it found that he had "dissembled" in his evidence to the Committee over whether pressure was put onto an earlier investigation. Willetts' high forehead, academic manner and intellectual approach to politics have led to his being nicknamed "Two-brains".
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