David Thomas Morris (born 3 January 1966) is a British Conservative Party politician, former musician, businessman and former Member of Parliament (MP) for Morecambe and Lunesdale serving from 2010 to 2024.

[1] The son of an ex-Royal Navy Lieutenant Commander who served as Director of Maritime Affairs for the Bahamas,[4] he spent much of his youth abroad.

However the Parliamentary Standards Commissioner accepted that the rules breach had been inadvertent[21] Following an interim report on the connections between colonialism and properties now in the care of the National Trust, including links with historic slavery, Morris was among the signatories of a letter to The Telegraph in November 2020 from the "Common Sense Group" of Conservative Parliamentarians.

The letter accused the National Trust of being "coloured by cultural Marxist dogma, colloquially known as the 'woke[broken anchor] agenda'".

Following the announcement, Morris said, “Five years of work has finally come to fruition and after lobbying four Prime Ministers and six Chancellors and more meetings and debates in Parliament than I can count, I am absolutely delighted we have secured the funding for this project to go ahead.

This decision has quite literally changed Morecambe forever.”[30] [31] He has been praised by his Conservative Party colleagues, such as the Chancellor George Osborne and Philip Hammond, as well as Prime Ministers David Cameron and Theresa May, for being a catalyst for regeneration in his constituency and helping to secure further funding.

[32] Morris was credited by the Conservative Party as being pivotal in securing the site for a new nuclear power station alongside Heysham 1 and 2.

[33][34] In December 2017, Morris questioned claims about child poverty in his constituency made by local schools and a doctor who appeared in an ITV news story about poverty, alleging that staff at the schools were linked to Labour's campaign group Momentum[35] Morris posted on his Facebook page that "These claims are not those being experienced by myself or the jobcentre in the area".

Morris stated on ITV that there was no proof or validity to these claims from any official source and called for social services to investigate to sort the matter out.

[37] With 10% of children at Morecambe Bay Primary School coming from a family using food banks,[37] the Head Teacher has spoken out against this perceived injustice on national television.

Criticised by his political rivals, he responded to his local newspaper that: "I am frankly insulted by the line of questioning your journalist has decided to take...My expenses are independently adjudicated by IPSA and are only paid for legitimate items.

[42] In November 2016 it was reported that Morris was being investigated for claiming £1,400 in car mileage expenses for trips in the UK on dates when he was abroad on parliamentary business.

[43] In August 2017, Morris was accused of nepotism by the publication Private Eye after it was revealed that he employed his partner as his Senior Parliamentary Assistant on a salary up to £45,000.

[45] In September 2019, Morris married his partner Emma Smith in a ceremony at the Chapel of St Mary Undercroft at the Houses of Parliament.