Editing David Laws (section)

===Post-parliamentary career===
Laws lost his seat in the 2015 General Election and declined an offer to be seated in the [[House of Lords]].<ref>{{cite news |last1=Wintour |first1=Patrick |title=Vince Cable among four senior Lib Dems to turn down Lords offer from Clegg |url=https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2015/may/15/vince-cable-four-senior-lib-dems-lords-nick-clegg-peerage-politics |access-date=22 July 2022 |work=The Guardian |date=15 May 2015 |language=en}}</ref> When CentreForum was rebranded and refocused in 2016 as the [[Education Policy Institute]], Laws was hired to lead it.<ref name="SchoolWeekCentreForum">{{Cite web |url=https://schoolsweek.co.uk/school-heavyweights-join-board-as-centreforum-becomes-education-policy-institute/ |title=School heavyweights join board as CentreForum becomes Education Policy Institute |last=Whittaker |first=Freddie |date=2016-06-14 |website=Schools Week |access-date=2018-08-07}}</ref><ref name="GuardianDavidLaws">{{Cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/education/2017/aug/01/david-laws-education-policy-schools-minister-thinktank-epi |title=David Laws: 'The quality of education policymaking is poor' |last=Wilby |first=Peter |date=2017-08-01 |access-date=2018-08-07 |language=en}}</ref>