David Davis: a man with the utmost confidence in his own limitations | John Crace

Even supporters at the Brexit select committee are beginning to worry that Davis’s air of stupidity may not be an actBack in November 2002, David Davis spoke in the House of Commons about why he didn’t think referendums were necessarily a good idea. “We should not ask people to vote on a blank sheet of paper and tell them to trust us to fill in the details,” he warned. With good reason. Because the person the country might be relying on for that information could be him.D