 However, Davies served for only 17 months, losing his seat to the Labour candidate Christopher Price at the 1966 general election.He joined the Conservative Monday Club prior to 1966 in which year he edited their booklet "Collectivism or Individualism in Medicine".In 1968 he was an ordinary Member of the Club's Executive Council, and his address on Social Service Expenditure appeared in the published "Proceedings of the Monday Club Conference on Economic Policy for the 1970s", 5 October 1968.