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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:
2025 , 2024 , 2023 , 2022 , 2021

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 (since 11/03/2025)
  • 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

26/06/2025 | 18:12:40 It's simply that when we have a debate in the House of Lords, all speakers are obliged to stay throughout the debate. So I just looked expectantly. But for all of that, the words have been said. We've had three meetings with Georgian delegations that I've been part of in the last, well, since this year began. And on each occasion, I start by asking what's happened since the last time? And it gets worse and worse. And all I can say is that I dread coming in September, October, to meet them... 25/06/2025 | 10:52:50 No, no, not at all. I'm most grateful to the two great Danes who have introduced these debates and for all the thinking that the Culture Committee has gone through in order to bring these matters to our attention. I've listened carefully to the points that have been made. I share with Mr Petri HONKONEN the experience of having been my government's or my party's spokesperson for sport in the House of Lords in the British Parliament. And there I discovered some very interesting things that... 10/04/2025 | 18:45:43 Thank you, Madam President. And let me express my delight at the fact that this dimension, the relationship with Latin America, is being explored in this debate. Since I lived for quite a lot of my life in the Caribbean and have travelled through Latin America, I'm also delighted to have the Head of the Senate actually speak to us, a Mexican voice when we speak about Latin America and our friend back there, too. I hope that everybody in this chamber will continue when they open their atlases... 09/04/2025 | 11:09:18 President, forgive this stumble at the beginning. I thought I had another three minutes space before I entertain everybody with my ideas. It is a privilege to stand in this debate and take my part. And I'm grateful to Mr Frank SCHWABE and his collaborators in putting this report together. It is astonishing, however, that 25 pages are needed to spell out what all of us ought to know instinctively: that doing wrong things and risking losing one's trust is simply at odds with everything that... 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...

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