David Lawrence Shaw (14 November 1950 – 23 August 2022) was a British politician who served as a Member of Parliament (MP).

Bordes was "his part-time unpaid researcher" from the end of December 1988 until 21 February 1989, working on the Net Book Agreement.

[2] In January 1998 the then Prime Minister Tony Blair described Shaw who had lost his seat nine months before as being "[both] nasty and ineffectual in equal quantities.

Shaw was a chartered accountant and the founder, Chairman and Director, Sabrelance Ltd, corporate finance advisers, from 1983.

They had one son, born in September 1989 and one daughter, Annabel who addressed the Conservative Party Conference in 2009 at just 15 years of age.