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He who dares wins ... but it's a high-risk strategy

Profile: David Davis, once seen as the natural inheritor of the Conservative leadership, might just have gone for a long walk into the political wilderness by resigning as an MP.

David Davis, once seen as the natural inheritor of the Conservative leadership, might just have gone for a long walk into the political wilderness by resigning as an MP.

Davis, 59, has a reputation as political loner, a maverick, but also something of a conspirator.