Editing David Laws (section)

==Early life and education==
Laws was born in [[Farnham]], [[Surrey]],<ref name="Five">[http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/8565138.stm David Laws; Five things I have learned] BBC News, 14 March 2010,</ref> son of a [[Conservative Party (UK)|Conservative-voting]] father who was a [[banking|banker]], and a [[Labour Party (UK)|Labour-voting]] mother. He has an older brother and a younger sister, both adopted.

Laws was educated at fee-paying [[independent school]]s: [[Woburn Hill School]] in the town of [[Weybridge]], [[Surrey]], from 1974 to 1979; and [[St George's College, Weybridge]], a [[Roman Catholic]] day school in the same town, from 1979 to 1984. Regarded as a skilled speaker in intellectual argument, he won the national [[Observer Schools Mace]] [[Debating|Debating Championship]] in 1984.

Laws graduated in 1987 from [[King's College, Cambridge]], with a double first in economics.<ref>{{cite news | url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/10192614 | title=Colleagues heap praise on David Laws after resignation | publisher=BBC |access-date=13 December 2010 | date=30 May 2010}}</ref>