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Lord Leslie GRIFFITHS (United Kingdom, SOC)

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Representative
Member of the House of Lords
Labour

House of Lords
GB - SW1A 0PW - London
United Kingdom

Working language: English

Declarations of interests:
2024 , 2023 , 2022 , 2021 , 2020

Mandates

In the political groups

  • Member: Socialists, Democrats and Greens Group since 26/06/2020

In the Assembly

  • since 15/04/2024 Representative - United Kingdom
  • from 26/06/2020 to 14/04/2024 Substitute - United Kingdom

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

  • Full Member: Committee on Migration, Refugees and Displaced Persons (since 26/06/2020)
  • Chairperson: Sub-Committee on Diasporas and Integration (from 20/03/2024 to 28/01/2025)
  • Vice-Chairperson: Sub-Committee on Diasporas and Integration (from 09/10/2023 to 24/01/2024)
  • Full Member: Sub-Committee on Diasporas and Integration (since 21/03/2022)
  • Full Member: Sub-Committee on Diasporas and Integration (from 03/07/2020 to 23/01/2022)
  • Alternate of Mr Virendra SHARMA (Full Member): Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights (from 15/04/2024 to 28/11/2024)
  • Alternate of Sir Edward LEIGH (Full Member): Sub-Committee on the implementation of judgments of the European Court of Human Rights (from 24/06/2024 to 28/11/2024)
  • Alternate of Baroness Doreen E. MASSEY (Full Member): Sub-Committee on Refugee and Migrant Children and Young People (from 21/03/2022 to 14/04/2024)
  • Alternate of Baroness Doreen E. MASSEY (Full Member): Sub-Committee on Refugee and Migrant Children and Young People (from 03/07/2020 to 23/01/2022)

Interventions

Last speeches

29/01/2025 | 18:52:43 Thank you, President. And greetings to colleagues and friends. I note from the title of this debate that it states that it is one of the answers rather than the total solution, although many people have spoken as if this was the only way of dealing with an ageing population. And let's bear that in mind. But secondly, I am, of course, demographically aged myself, and hope that gives me authority to speak on this matter right now. Just earlier today, I chaired the meeting of the Committee on... 29/01/2025 | 11:18:16 Madam President, friends and colleagues, One of the main streams of historiography right now is called post-colonial history, and it examines the way that countries, often represented in this very hemicycle, manage the affairs of countries far away. If you asked historians, even historians, what was the first significant defeat of NAPOLEON, for example, they might debate between the withdrawal from Moscow in 1812 or the defeat at Waterloo in 1815. Few of them would talk about 1 January 1804... 28/01/2025 | 18:07:52 Thank you, President, and thank you, colleagues, for the impressive speeches that have been made. I don't need to repeat the statistics. They've been made and made again. Nor do I need, really, to protect Hamas from proper criticism. What happened on October 7 was horrendous, and it needs constantly to be in our minds. The way that Hamas has manipulated aspects of the case also needs to be recognised and kept in the front of our minds. But we're not debating that now. We're debating the fact... 04/10/2024 | 10:27:04 Is it working? Yes. Good. Thank you, President and colleagues, I would like to thank the rapporteur and his Committee for a splendid piece of work. And perhaps add to that for his introduction to the debate today, which has laid the issues before us in a very clear way. Members may wonder what an old man like me can contribute to a subject where emerging technology is very much in our focus. And it's a fair question since I started my intellectual life before the internet was invented. It... 01/10/2024 | 10:30:34 Mister President and colleagues, I'm delighted to have read this report and to see the challenge that it poses for all of us, even those who have developed legislation in their own constituencies, to deal with these very questions. I had a humble role in our own parliament in shaping a Data Processing Act where the question of the freedom of information was key and also about to come into practice and already passed is an Online Safety Act that will have picked up some of the questions that...

Activities