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Dominic Charles Roberts Grieve (born May 24, 1956) British politician and barrister. He is the Conservative Member of Parliament for Beaconsfield and is the shadow Attorney General and one of the shadow Home Affairs spokesmen. He also has responsibility for community cohesion on behalf of the Conservative Party.

Grieve was born in London, the son of Percy Grieve QC, the (MP for Solihull 1964-1983). He was educated at the French Lycee, Colet Court, Westminster School and Magdalen College, Oxford where he was awarded a Bachelor of Arts degree in modern history in 1978. He also acted as the President of the Conservative Association whilst at Oxford in 1977. He finished his studies at the Polytechnic of Central London where he received a diploma in law in 1979. He was called to the Bar at the Middle Temple in 1980 and is a practising barrister specialising in health and safety law, continuing to appear in court as an advocate from time to time. He was made a Bencher of the Middle Temple in 2005.

He was elected as a councillor in the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham in 1982, remaining a councillor until 1986. He contested the Norwood constituency in the London Borough of Lambeth at the 1987 general election but finished in second place some 4,723 votes behind the veteran Labour (although increasing the Conservative vote) MP John Fraser. He was elected to the House of Commons for the Buckinghamshire seat of Beaconsfield at the 1997 general election following the retirement of Tim Smith. Grieve was elected with a majority of 13,987 votes and has remained the MP there since increasing his majority at each successive election. A popular and hard working constituency MP in 2005 he was supported by more than 50 per cent of those voting. He made his maiden speech on May 21, 1997 [1].

Grieve is a known campaigner in Parliament for human rights. He was instrumental in the defeat of the Labour Government in early 2006 in relation to the proposal that the Home Secretary should have power to detain suspected terrorists for periods up to 90 days without charge. He has been a Conservative Party spokesman on community cohesion for several years and has developed strong connections with ethnic and religious minority communities in Britain whether Muslim, Sikh, Hindu or Afro-Caribbean. He is less well known for his interest in and knowledge of European affairs. He broadcasts in French on French radio and television and is well viewed by several embassies in London in particular the Irish, French and Italian Embassies. He is not, however, a Europhile. He also has established connections with the American Embassy. He was a member of both the Environmental Audit and the Statutory Instruments select committees from 1997 to 2001. William Hague promoted him to the frontbench in 1999 when he became a spokesman on Scottish affairs, moving to speak on home affairs as the spokesman on criminal justice following the election of Iain Duncan Smith as the new leader of the Conservative Party in 2001, and was then promoted to be shadow Attorney General by Michael Howard in 2003. He was retained as shadow Attorney General by the new Conservative Leader, David Cameron.

He was a police station lay visitor for six years from 1990 and worked in Brixton on various bodies set up to reconcile the different communities after the riots. He is a practising Anglican Christian and was a member of the London Diocesan Synod of the Church of England for six years from 1994. He has been married to fellow barrister, Caroline Hutton, since 1990 and they have two sons, James and Hugo.

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