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Sir Edward LEIGH (United Kingdom, EC/DA)

Photo member

Substitute
Deputy
Conservative

House of Commons
GB - SW1A OAA - London
United Kingdom

www.edwardleigh.org.uk

Working language: English

Declarations of interests:
2023 , 2022 , 2021 , 2020 , 2019

Mandates

In the political groups

  • Member: European Conservatives Group and Democratic Alliance since 05/10/2019
  • Member: European Conservatives Group from 24/11/2017 to 04/10/2019
  • Auditor: European Conservatives Group from 05/10/2014 to 07/11/2015
  • Auditor: European Democrat Group from 21/01/2013 to 04/10/2014
  • Member: European Democrat Group from 12/11/2010 to 20/01/2013

In the Assembly

  • since 23/01/2023 Substitute - United Kingdom
  • from 24/11/2017 to 22/01/2023 Representative - United Kingdom
  • from 12/11/2010 to 07/11/2015 Substitute - United Kingdom

In the committee(s) and sub-committee(s)

  • Member: Committee on Rules of Procedure, Immunities and Institutional Affairs (since 24/01/2022)
  • Second Vice-Chairperson: Committee on Rules of Procedure, Immunities and Institutional Affairs (from 29/01/2020 to 23/01/2022)
  • Member: Committee on Rules of Procedure, Immunities and Institutional Affairs (from 22/01/2018 to 28/01/2020)
  • Full Member: Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights (from 24/11/2017 to 22/01/2023)
  • Full Member: Committee on Culture, Science, Education and Media (from 21/01/2013 to 07/11/2015)
  • Full Member: Committee on Migration, Refugees and Displaced Persons (from 23/01/2012 to 20/01/2013)
  • Member: (Former) Committee on Culture, Science and Education (from 12/11/2010 to 23/01/2012)
  • Full Member: Sub-Committee on the European Social Charter (from 24/01/2013 to 26/01/2014)
  • Member: Sub-Committee on the Cultural Heritage (from 27/01/2011 to 23/01/2012)
  • Member: Sub-Committee on Population (from 25/01/2011 to 23/01/2012)
  • Alternate of Lord Richard KEEN (Full Member): Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights (since 23/01/2023)
  • Alternate of Mr Robert WALTER (Full Member): Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights (from 23/04/2015 to 07/11/2015)
  • Alternate of Sir Jeffrey DONALDSON (Full Member): Committee on Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development (from 23/01/2012 to 26/01/2014)
  • Alternate of Mr Ian LIDDELL-GRAINGER (Full Member): Committee on Culture, Science, Education and Media (from 23/01/2012 to 20/01/2013)
  • Alternate of Mr Charles KENNEDY (Full Member): Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights (from 27/01/2014 to 22/04/2015)
  • Alternate of Mr James CLAPPISON (Member): (Former) Committee on Migration, Refugees and Population (from 12/11/2010 to 23/01/2012)
  • Alternate of Lord Richard KEEN (Full Member): Sub-Committee on the implementation of judgments of the European Court of Human Rights (since 23/01/2023)
  • Alternate of Sir Christopher CHOPE (Full Member): Sub-Committee on the implementation of judgments of the European Court of Human Rights (from 22/03/2021 to 22/01/2023)
  • Alternate of Sir Christopher CHOPE (Full Member): Sub-Committee on the implementation of judgments of the European Court of Human Rights (from 26/06/2018 to 24/01/2021)
  • Alternate of Mr Alex CHALK (Full Member): Sub-Committee on the implementation of judgments of the European Court of Human Rights (from 25/01/2018 to 31/05/2018)
  • Alternate of Mr Charles KENNEDY (Full Member): Sub-Committee on Rule of Law (from 28/01/2014 to 10/12/2014)
  • Alternate of Mr Jim HOOD (Full Member): Sub-Committee on Co-operation with non-European countries of origin and transit (from 30/03/2012 to 20/01/2013)

Interventions

Last speeches

10/10/2023 | 18:58:24 There's no need for an Englishman to defend France, because France is a bastion and a beacon of human rights and always has been. Of course, France's relationships with Europe, and in particular with the United Kingdom, have been complicated over the centuries. Most recently in the First and Second World Wars and since, France has been a bastion of freedom in alliance with her family of free nations. We in the United Kingdom have immense respect for our closest neighbours, our partners, and... 19/06/2023 | 17:38:46 (Undelivered speech, Rules of Procedure Art. 31.2)   Turkey is a complicated society and is a bridge between Central Asia, the Middle East, and Europe. These three different directions have either pulled or attracted Turkey for centuries. Since Ataturk and the foundation of the Turkish republic, the tendency has been for Turkey to become more and more European. As a democratic country it has been a keystone in the NATO alliance and joined the Council of Europe within a year of our foundation... 26/04/2023 | 19:17:12 Well Lord George FOULKES is a lovely man but I seldom agree with much of what he says. Of course, he is a fanatical pro-European –  there is nothing wrong with that, he is entitled to his views – but he is constantly lecturing us about how the British people made a terrible mistake in leaving the European Union. Although, dare I say it, he is an unelected member of the unelected House of Lords, whereas I am elected by 75 000 people, 60% of my constituency voted to leave and 17 million people... 25/04/2023 | 17:27:41 Madam President. It is an honour to speak in this debate and as a United Kingdom Brexiteer, I never thought that I would speak in this vast chamber of the European Parliament, at least five times bigger than our more intimate chamber in the House of Commons, and summing up in its vast space-ness, the remoteness that many of us think characterises the European Union. But the Council of Europe, of course, and its Parliamentary Assembly is supposed to be very different, it is an inter... 26/01/2023 | 10:36:21 President, it is an honour to open this debate on behalf of my group and it is even more of an honour to follow the last speech. which was truly inspiring. It almost bought a tear to our eyes when we heard of that poor farmer. To the world, he may have been a farmer but to his family, he was the universe. And this explains the appalling, emotional and cruel impact of this war. And the other phrase that we heard in that inspiring speech was that Putin, in reality, is not afraid of NATO. That...

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