Just who is David Davis?

For the benefit of those of us who thought David Davis was Ray's less talented brother, yesterday's Guardian devotes the first six and a half pages of its G2 section to a profile of this contender for the leadership of the Tory party.

Its length is not the only odd thing about it.
( The undergraduate )

( The devoted parent )

( The athlete )

One last oddity is the claim that Davis's background was in left-wing politics, because:

...his grandfather Walter Harrison (his mother's stepfather) had been a shop steward and a communist agitator who had led the Jarrow march from York to Aldermaston.

The Grauniad cannot take all the credit for this interesting glitch: its first appearance (on the web, at least) is the May 15th entry in a David Davis for leader blog, which did at least restrict its claim to leadership to "the leg from York to Aldermaston". Back in June, the Times Online was using the same terminology as the Guardian: "Walter Harrison, a Communist who led the 1936 Jarrow hunger march from York to Aldermaston..."
Davis's grandfather may have led the Jarrow Crusade from York to Aldermaston - Google finds no evidence of this that does not come from Davis himself, but Google doesn't know everything^* - but the marchers did not follow him there: they continued, as planned, to London, to lobby parliament. The Aldermaston marches were something entirely different.

My first reaction was that the article reads as if it had been written by an alien; on reflection, it reads as if it had been written by Jeffrey Archer.

^*His grandfather can't have been Wal Hannington, can he?