David Philip Heathcoat-Amory[n 1] (born 21 March 1949) is a British politician, accountant, and farmer.

He was educated at Eton College and Christ Church, University of Oxford, where he received an MA in PPE.

In 1980, he was appointed as the assistant finance director of the British Technology Group (BTG) where he remained until he was elected to Parliament in 1983.

He was appointed as the Treasurer of the Household (Deputy Chief Whip) following the 1992 general election and was the Minister of State at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in 1993.

He was a member of the Treasury Select committee from 2004 until he was briefly, in 2005, a spokesman on work and pensions under the leadership of Michael Howard, but returned to the backbenches later in the year when David Cameron became Conservative leader.

From late 2001 until July 2003, Heathcoat-Amory was one of the two British parliamentary delegates to the Convention on the Future of Europe, which drafted the European Constitution.

[1][2] Heathcoat-Amory lost his seat in the 2010 general election to the Liberal Democrat's Tessa Munt who achieved a 6.1% swing.

[5][6][7] He was criticised in 2008 after remarking, regarding the presence of a Black MP, Dawn Butler, "They're letting anybody in nowadays".