[1] Davies was elected in 1945 for his large north Staffordshire seat that included a northern part of the Newcastle-under-Lyme-Stoke-on-Trent conurbation, partly employed in the increasingly uncompetitive basic clothes textiles manufacturing (see William Bromfield) but also, in the towns themselves, as today, also having major employment in the high quality, niche firms comprising the Staffordshire Potteries.
He was an assiduous local MP but his left wing views led to him being overlooked for Ministerial office during the Attlee governments (1945–51).
This was an attempt to broker talks between the North Vietnamese leader Ho Chi Minh and the Americans and their allies.
Davies, left wing and anti-militaristic, lent an air of conviction to putting out peace feelers.
The Americans were furious, UK diplomats embarrassed and angry and Ho Chi Minh refused to meet Davies, who had been made to look foolish.