David Clifford Cretney (born 15 January 1954) is a former Manx politician. He was, until March 2014, Minister of Infrastructure in the

Isle of Man Government The Isle of Man Government ( gv, Reiltys Ellan Vannin) is the government of the Isle of Man. The formal head of the Isle of Man Government is the Lieutenant Governor, the personal representative of Charles III. The executive head is the Chief Mi ...

, and had formerly headed the Departments of Community, Culture & Leisure, Trade & Industry, and Tourism & Leisure. He was a

Member of the House of Keys The House of Keys () is the directly elected lower house of Tynwald, the parliament of the Isle of Man, the other branch being the Legislative Council. History The oldest known reference to the name is in a document of 1417, written in ...

for the

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, representing

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from 1985. He has been a member of the upper house, the Legislative Council since 2015. Before going into politics, Cretney was a shop manager (1977–85) and he was also a businessman in the period 1985–2012. In December 2012 and early January 2013 he closed down his two bargain-basement retail outlets having chosen not to renew the leases on either of his premises.

Governmental positions

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of the Post Office Authority, 1992–96 * Minister of Tourism and Leisure, 1996–2006 *

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, 2006–10 * Minister of Community, Culture and Leisure, 2010–11 * Minister of Infrastructure, 2011–14

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