Dominic Grieve

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Dominic Charles Grieve (born 24 May 1956) is a former British politician and barrister.

He served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Beaconsfield from 1997 to 2019, and as Attorney General for England and Wales from 2008 to July 2014, attending Cabinet.

He was fired as Attorney General by then Prime Minister David Cameron as part of the Cabinet reshuffle of 14 July 2014, and Jonathan Wright replaced him as Attorney General.

Grieve, who was elected as a Conservative, is a leading Remain supporter on Brexit, and was barred from the Conservative whip in September 2019, the first in a period of unrest Conservative MPs. Grieve, a liberal conservative, has often used his legal expertise to advocate for reforms on the topic, with his opinions often being at odds with government policy.

Grieve has called for a second referendum on EU membership, but before being refused, he and other Conservative rebels would vote of no confidence to depose a Conservative government, if that was the only way to avoid the "catastrophic" harm caused by a bad Brexit.

Grieve's local party was threatened with diselection in spring 2019 after losing a confidence vote by members.

He declared in October 2019 that he would run as an outsider in his constituency's seat in the upcoming general election.

According to a story, the Liberal Democrats would stand aside to assist him.Grieve is the president of the Franco-British Society.

He was honoured with the Legion of Honour in 2016 and has broadcasts in French on French radio and television.

He is a practising Anglican and a member of the Church of England's diocesan synod.

Early life

Grieve was born in Lambeth, London, the son of Percy Grieve, QC (the MP for Solihull 1964–83) and the granddaughter of Sir George Roberts, a native of Anglo-French, Evelyn Raymonde Mijouain (d. 1991), and the maternal granddaughter of Sir George Roberts. He was educated at the Lycée française Charles de Gaulle in South Kensington, Colet Court (an all-boys' preparatory school in Barnes) and Westminster School. In 1978, he graduated from Magdalen College, Oxford, where he received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Modern History. In 1977, he became President of the Oxford University Conservative Association.

Grieve continued his education at the Polytechnic College of Central London (now the University of Westminster), where he obtained a Diploma in Law in 1979.

Personal life

He is a practising Anglican and was a member of the London diocesan synod of the Church of England for six years starting in 1994. In October 1990 in the City of London, he married barrister Caroline Hutton. They have two sons.

"Canoeing, sailing on the Thames at weekends, mountain climbing, skiing, and falling walking, architecture, art, and travel" are among his interests. He was a police station lay visitor for six years and spent in Brixton on various fronts to help the different groups recover after the riots.

Grieve is a patron of Prisoners Abroad, a charity that promotes the wellbeing of Britons detained in overseas and their families.

Grieve's fortune in 2009 was estimated at £3.1 million. In 2008, Grievance was chastised for investments in multinational companies with significant projects in Zimbabwe.

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Legal career

He was called to the Middle Temple in 1980 and is a labour and health specialist. He was made a Bencher of the Middle Temple in 2005 and was appointed a King's Counsel in 2008.

Political career

In 1982, he was elected as a councillor in Hammersmith and Fulham's Avonmore ward, but did not campaign for re-election in 1986. At the 1987 general election, he ran for Norwood constituency in Lambeth, but finished second, behind veteran Labour MP John Fraser.

Following Tim Smith's resignation in the cash-for-questions scandal, he was elected to the House of Commons for the Beaconsfield seat in 1997 general election. Grieve was elected with a majority of 13,987 votes, and remained as the MP until his defeat in the 2019 general election.

On May 21, 1997, he made his first public appearance.

From 1997 to 1999, he served on both the Environmental Audit and the Statutory Instruments select committees. Following the election of Iain Duncan Smith as the new leader of the Conservative Party in 2001, he was named shadow Attorney General by Michael Howard in 1999. Griev has also been charged with community cohesion on behalf of the Conservative Party. In 2003, he voted for the Iraq War.

Following David Davis' resignation, he was retained as Shadow Attorney General by new Conservative Leader David Cameron and was appointed Shadow Home Secretary on June 12th, 2008.

Grieve was instrumental in the Labour government's defeat on the plan that the Home Secretary should have the ability to arrest suspected terrorists for up to 90 days without charge in early 2006.

Grieve was promoted to become Shadow Justice Secretary in the last Conservative Shadow Cabinet reshuffle before the 2010 general election, which was held on January 19th, 2009, opposite Jack Straw. Grieve was reported to be "very happy with the change" because it would fit his talents better, according to the BBC.

On May 28, 2010, he was named on the Privy Council as part of the 2010 Dissolution of Parliament Honours List.

Grieve was elected Attorney General after the 2010 general election. He was one of four cabinet members who abstained in the same-sex referendum in May 2013. He said he thought the Bill had been "poorly planned."

Politicians must "wake up" to the problem of graft in some minority groups, according to Grieve's statement on November 22, 2013, "corruption in certain segments of the Pakistani community is 'endemic.' He apologised and said he had not meant to say there was a "particular problem" in the Pakistani community two days later.

Grieve, a spokeswoman for the Conservative Party's annual conference in October 2016, warned that electoral fraud is found "where there are high numbers of residents from a community in which there is a tradition of electoral abuse in their home countries." Although Grieve apologised for singling out the British Pakistani community, he denied it was about no one party.

David Cameron was fired from the cabinet by David Cameron in July 2014 and replaced by Jeremy Wright. Grieve believed this was because of his support for the European Court of Human Rights, but no reason was given; a few weeks after Grieve gave Cameron incorrect legal advice on whether he should make a public appearance on the Andy Coulson trial.

Boris Johnson's appointment as Prime Minister in July 2019, Grieve described him as a "charlatan."

Grieve joined 20 other Tory rebel MPs in a vote against Boris Johnson's Conservative government on September 3rd. The rebel MPs voted for the Opposition against a Conservative motion that later died; the result of the successful election resulted in a referendum on a bill that would prevent a no-deal Brexit. All 21 people were told that they had mislaid the Conservative "whip," accusing them of being Conservative MPs and requiring them to stand as independents, which led them to be barred from the Conservative Party. If they wanted to run for re-election in a future election, the Conservative Party would not endorse them as Conservative candidates. Grieve revealed in October 2019 that he planned to reclaim his position as an independent. The Liberal Democrats opted not to contest the Beaconsfield constituency (giving Grieve an increased chance of overthrowrowning Conservative candidate Joy Morrissey). At the time, the pact was described as "the first significant step toward the establishment of a'remain alliance' at the general election." He polled 16,765 votes (29%) losing his seat to Morrisey, who polled 32,477 votes (56%), a majority of 15,712 on a 75% voter turnout.

Before the 2016 referendum, there was a protester against Brexit.

Grieve wrote on his website in May 2017: "The electorate's decision in the Referendum must be respected," the candidate's decision "should be respected" and that "I should favour a reasoned process to give effect to it."

Grieve submitted several revisions in opposition to the government's decision to leave the EU during the Brexit negotiations process. The first was to vote for the Brexit referendum in Parliament, i.e. To force Parliament to accept the Brexit deal, which would have a binding effect on the government. He proposed an amendment to the European Union (Withdrawal) Bill in December 2017 requiring any Brexit deal to be enacted by statute rather than by executive order. The government opposed the measure, but in Parliament, it was accepted. Another proposed amendment, which was later published on June 12th (Amendment 19), and again on June 20th, was designed to strengthen the binding effect of the meaningful vote by requiring the government to follow the directions of a Parliamentary motion if Parliament does not accept the government's withdrawal from the treaty. After verbal promises from Prime Minister Theresa May, the rebellion threatened to revolt, but the government eventually voted against the amendment, but the government rejected it as "technically, MPs can still vote on the final deal or no deal," the Guardian announced. Following a vote in favor of the Government's rejected agreement with the EU, Grieve's 3rd amendment in December 2018 would see Parliament replace the government in determining the outcome of Brexit.

Grieve wrote a column for The Independent on July 24, 2018, which advocates for the British people to have a "final say on the Brexit bill." MP Chuka Umunna, the People's Vote campaign's leader, was also behind the petition. According to Grieve, Brexit threatens the Conservative Party's image of "economic integrity."

Theresa May feared a "polite rebellion" from pro-EU MPs, and a "large" number of people will vote for another referendum if no agreement was reached, according to Grieve. Following a suggestion that Tory rebels are able to "collapse the government" to prevent a "catastrophic" Brexit deal, Tory rebels are expected to "collapse the government."

Grieve was one of the signatories to a bill by a coalition of senior Conservatives calling for a second referendum on Brexit in December 2018. Grieve called Brexit "national suicide" during his address to the convention for a second referendum on Monday. He co-founded Right to Vote, a short time after. Boris Johnson said in a tweet that if the Conservative Party elected Boris Johnson as a replacement to Theresa May or if the government took Britain out of the EU without a contract, he would resign the whip.

Grieve submitted a successful amendment to a government sector motion on Monday, but the change was controversial due to Speaker John Bercow's unusual powers. "Conservatives are outraged that Mr Bercow accepted the Grieve bill because parliamentary legislation usually only allows a government minister to amend motions of this kind." "The latest Grieve Bill, which has now been passed by MPs, means that if the Prime Minister's resignation next week, the Commons will then have the opportunity to vote on alternative proposals, ranging from a "managed no-deal" to a new referendum, through a "norway option" or a rewritten version of the current deal... MPs argue that Mr Bercow broke Commons laws and dismissed the advice of his own clerks."

In the end, May's separation agreement was rejected, and the Government's resulting bill was defeated by Labour rebels on January 29, 2019. The change "forced the government to make time for MPs to explore a variety of alternatives to the prime minister's Brexit strategy on six full days in the Commons before the 26th of March," according to Labour's platform, a second referendum, no agreement, and the Norway-style relationship."

By his local party 182 votes to 131 on March 29, 2019, the original intended date of Brexit. Grieve said he'll continue doing 'exactly as before' at this point.' The gesture marks the start of the process of deselection. Jon Conway, the former UKIP defender, accused Conway of "insurgency," according to Grieve, who denied Conway's assertion that Conway was behind the order. Grief has since been requested to request re-election by his local party.

The Prime Minister Theresa May's decision to block government funding in order to allow MPs to vote on a No-deal Brexit. May's proposal to suspend government spending on pensions and schools had "any attempt to deny vital funding to Whitehall departments would be highly irresponsible," according to the pro-Brexit Telegraph newspaper, "it takes our politics to a new degree." The attempt was, in any case, blocked by House Speaker John Bercow, but did not go to a vote.

Grieve has been named as a contributor to a Labour Party motion aimed at preventing a no-deal Brexit, but the plans were kept private until their unveiling on June 11, when Conservative leadership candidates began their campaigns. If it goes well, MPs would have taken over Westminster's timetable on June 25, 2019, with the intention of enshrining legislation that would have barred the UK from leaving the EU without a contract. The campaign was defeated by 309 votes to 298 on the following day. According to Grieve, the bill was the "last viable option" to prevent a no-deal Brexit. He said that if necessary, he would support attempts to depose a Conservative government in a vote of no confidence if it were the only way to prevent such a result.

Grieve's amendments, which aimed to end the no-deal Brexit proponent, were accepted later in June 2019. Grieve's first amendment to the 2019 Northern Ireland bill, which was initially intended to postpone elections and budgets for the troubled Northern Ireland assembly and executive, demanded a minister to report to the Commons every two weeks until December on the progress of talks on rebuilding the Northern Ireland assembly, but it was unclear if this could be done as a written paper, meaning the chamber would not necessarily have to sit. This was later modified in the Lords by another amendment introduced by David Anderson, with support from Labour and the Liberal Democrats. According to Grieve's latest news, the fortnightly reports requiring modification by Grieving would have to be voted within five calendar days of being published, thus necessitating that the Commons sits. Grieve brought the bill back to the Commons by making an amendment that would increase the power to prevent proscription even more. Ministers could not update the Commons because it was prorogued or adjourned, parliament would have to meet on the day required to comply with the rule and for the following five weeks.

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Honours and Awards

• 9 June 2010: appointed to the Privy Council of the United Kingdom, giving him the honorific "The Right Honourable" for life.
• 2016: Chevalier of the Legion of Honour of the French Republic