Terry Davis obituary

Conscientious Labour MP in Birmingham for 28 years who later focused on an international career as secretary general of the Council of EuropeThe former secretary general of the Council of Europe (CoE), Terry Davis, who has died aged 86, was a Birmingham Labour MP for 28 years, and was popular in his constituency because he understood the problems of the area, where he had been born and where he had himself worked in the car industry. At Westminster he won a reputation as a serious-minded, consci