Dominic Grieve
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Dominic Charles Roberts Grieve QC MP (born 24 May 1956) is a Conservative politician in the United Kingdom, currently the shadow Attorney General and MP for Beaconsfield.
Grieve was a local councillor in Fulham during the 1980s, first standing for Parliament unsuccessfully in 1987 in the constituency of Lambeth Norwood. He joined Parliament in 1997 as MP for Beaconsfield.
Grieve then served as a Member of the Select Committee on Environmental Audit and the Joint Committee on Statutory Instruments, as well as the Secretary of the Conservative Backbench Committee on the Constitution, Legal Affairs and Northern Ireland.
Grieve was appointed shadow spokesman for Scotland in June 1999 by then-leader William Hague. New leader Iain Duncan Smith appointed him the Conservative spokesman on criminal justice and community cohesion in September 2001 as part of the overall Conservative Home Affairs team. Then, in November 2003, he was appointed to his current position of shadow Attorney General by current leader Michael Howard, though keeping his Home Affairs brief as well.
The son of Sir Percy Grieve, former Conservative MP for Solihull, he attended Westminster School before reading Modern History at Magdalen College, Oxford and then training as a barrister, called to the Bar in 1980. He is a former member of the London Diocesan Synod of the Church of England. He is married to Caroline, also a barrister, and has two sons, James and Hugo.
External links
- Dominic Grieve (http://www.dominicgrieve.org.uk/) official site
- Guardian Unlimited Politics - Ask Aristotle: Dominic Grieve MP (http://politics.guardian.co.uk/person/0,9290,-2075,00.html)
- TheyWorkForYou.com - Dominic Grieve MP (http://www.theyworkforyou.com/mp/dominic_grieve/beaconsfield)