Here is what Wikipedia says about his parliamentary career: (More here)
Dominic Grieve 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 MP John Fraser (although increasing the Conservative vote).
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. He made his maiden speech on May 21, 1997.
Grieve 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[citation needed]. He broadcasts in French on French radio and television[citation needed]. He is not, however, an enthusiast for the EU[citation needed]. Grieve has strongly opposed equal gay rights. He was a member of both the Environmental Audit and the Statutory Instruments select committees from 1997 to 1999.
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 also had responsibility for community cohesion on behalf of the Conservative Party. He was retained as shadow Attorney General by the new Conservative Leader, David Cameron and was appointed Shadow Home Secretary on 12 June 2008 following the resignation of David Davis.
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It is an interesting fact that Grieve's Wikipedia article (which was much more interesting previously) has very recently been heavily edited apparently by hand or hands unknown (no trace on the record and at some time in the last five weeks) to excise a great deal of material about his links with the diplomats from
France, Ireland, Italy and the US and to add material about his votes on sexual equality (presumably to attack his libertarian credentials?) and, inexplicably, to alter the previous references to his two sons. Who? and Why?
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