Former Independent MP for Beaconsfield ( 1 May 1997 – 6 Nov 2019)
Baroness Prashar: ...decline. Perhaps the Minister can explain why. Recommendations, which have been made by various bodies and will be made later this month by a governance commission chaired by the right honourable Dominic Grieve, of which I am a member, to improve the governance of our country, are now, regrettably, absolutely necessary. But, as we have heard, they alone will not be sufficient. They will...
Lord Murphy of Torfaen: ...the privilege of chairing the Joint Committee of both Houses on that Bill, and the ISC simultaneously was taking a huge interest in what it contained. For example, I met the then chair of the ISC, Dominic Grieve KC, and the committee itself produced a report on how it thought the original Act could be improved. I just hope that this small but important Bill—which I entirely support, by...
Chris Philp: ...sympathise with those affected by shoplifting on Kilburn High Road. I was the prospective parliamentary candidate in that constituency in 2010, and I remember walking down Kilburn High Road with Dominic Grieve when a shoplifter ran out of Poundland and straight into our arms. It is a serious issue. The Metropolitan police has a record number of police officers—about 35,000—and I have...
Lord Dubs: ...I think it was Robert Buckland, the previous Lord Chancellor, who coined the Government’s approach to the Human Rights Act as “A cure in search of a problem”. Never were truer words uttered. Dominic Grieve, a previous Attorney-General, said: “Did I ever feel that government was being rendered ineffective by Human Rights Act claims? No, I did not.” There are very few defenders of...
Steven Baker: ...accept any amendments in order to target hard cases, because hard cases make for bad law. I also wish to mention an article written jointly by me and the former right hon. Member for Beaconsfield, Dominic Grieve QC. In the aftermath of the protests over the Sarah Everard vigil, he and I wrote an article contextualising this Bill. I had then, and I have now, considerable concerns about what...
Baroness Mobarik: ...search our souls before taking this step. Others such as the Institute of Race Relations, the House of Lords Constitution Committee, the think tank Policy Exchange and the former Attorney-General Dominic Grieve, as well as five separate UN bodies, have stated that such deprivation orders made under Clause 9 are likely to be discriminatory and unlawful. I hope that we would give attention...
Mike Nesbitt: ...written and oral evidence for no charge. Locally, as the Chair of the Committee mentioned, we received evidence from Colin Harvey. I was also very impressed by Christopher McCrudden. Nationally, Dominic Grieve, on multiple occasions, gave us detailed papers and followed them up with oral evidence. Internationally, no less a figure than Albie Sachs from South Africa, one of the original...
Alex Rowley: ...ID is “an illiberal solution in pursuit of a non-existent problem” and “yet another unnecessary ID card approach from the government”. I agree with David Davis on that—and there is more. Dominic Grieve, the former Conservative Attorney General, has said: “these new rules threaten to create a two tier electorate and discourage participation by the least advantaged.” The Tories...
Baroness Lister of Burtersett: ...report suggests that this is retroactive lawmaking of the worst kind and particularly offends the rule of law. I think we should do away with the clause altogether. I have also read an article by Dominic Grieve, the much-respected former Conservative Attorney-General, on the “ConservativeHome” blog, which I must admit is not normally at the top of my daily reading list. It is an...
Mick Antoniw: ...vote to be counted. Now, I said earlier that the Equality and Human Rights Commission had warned of the impact of voter ID requirements, and, in fact, the former Conservative Attorney General, Dominic Grieve, has said that these new rules threaten to create a two-tier electorate and discourage participation by the least advantaged. And the Conservative chair of the UK Parliament's Public...
Baroness Williams of Trafford: ...the common-law offence of public nuisance in statute. I begin with Amendments 133A and 133B in the name of the noble Viscount, Lord Colville of Culross, which I was able to discuss with him and Dominic Grieve last week. They seek to avoid a perceived outcome of Clause 59 that the Greater London Authority will no longer authorise large-scale assemblies on Parliament Square, due to the risk...
David Davis: ...Office team about a decade and a half ago. It was a time of huge controversy and, as Members can imagine, it was a heavy-duty team. My right hon. Friend the Member for Ashford (Damian Green) and Dominic Grieve were members. There were four future Cabinet members in that team. I thought that this incredibly self-effacing and amazingly modest man—certainly given our profession—would...
Naseem Shah: ...that the definition does not in any way affect counter-terrorism efforts. It was this ludicrous claim about the definition that the former Member for Beaconsfield and former Attorney General, Dominic Grieve, described as “total and unadulterated rubbish”. Additionally, it has been repeatedly noted by the APPG and experts that the working definition of Islamophobia being proposed is a...
Naomi Long: .... As an MP, I am on record as being opposed to the on-the-run (OTR) letters when the House of Commons held an inquiry into that matter. I am glad that, on the advice of the then Attorney General, Dominic Grieve, Theresa Villiers effectively rescinded those OTR letters on the Floor of the House of Commons in 2014 or 2015. Whether they are in a uniform, in a paramilitary organisation or...
Sarah Champion: ...that protest “will never be curtailed by the Government.”—[Official Report, 7 September 2020; Vol. 679, c. 384.] What has changed in the intervening nine months? The former Attorney General, Dominic Grieve QC, said that “no new laws were required if the police used the substantial powers they already have”. On Second Reading, the right hon. Member for Maidenhead said: “I do...
Jon Ashworth: ..., including the 850 health and care workers. Although repeating the numbers has become almost routine in this House, that does not make the scale or gravity of the loss any less shocking. We grieve as a nation and we all pay tribute to our healthcare workers, our social care workers and our public sector workers. I am sure that the whole House will want to dedicate itself in good faith to...
Lord Robertson of Port Ellen: ...Lord West, in the last debate that we had. Field Marshal Lord Guthrie, former Conservative Defence Secretary and Foreign Secretary Sir Malcolm Rifkind, and former Conservative Attorney-General Dominic Grieve, have all publicly opposed this measure. What about General Sir Nick Parker, former commander of British land forces, who urged Ministers not to damage the reputation of British Armed...
Baroness Kennedy of The Shaws: ...of UK Land Forces. It was signed also by the right honourable Sir Malcolm Rifkind, Queen’s Counsel, a former Foreign Secretary and Defence Secretary. It was signed also by the right honourable Dominic Grieve, QC, a former Attorney-General, and it was signed by a colleague with whom I have often worked who has been a really fine judge and was Director of Service Prosecutions, Bruce...
Lord Hunt of Kings Heath: My Lords, yesterday former Conservative Attorney-General Dominic Grieve described the Johnson Government as presiding over “the disappearance of any standards of conduct at the heart of government”, and said that the cronyism of administrative decisions had communicated to young people in particular a sense of government as corrupt. Given that, can the Minister be surprised that there was...
Stephen Morgan: ..., will fundamentally harm UK soldiers…The bill will have a very significant impact on the ability of UK soldiers and former soldiers to bring claims of this kind…As former Attorney General Dominic Grieve has highlighted, this raises the real prospect that the beneficiary of this bill ‘is not so much the personnel of the armed forces but the government, which is thereby protected from...