The Team
Home Office Watch is brought to you by the Liberal Democrat Home Affairs Team who are:
Chris Huhne MP
Shadow Home Secretary
Chris is the MP for Eastleigh and the Liberal Democrats’ Shadow Home Secretary. This makes him the party’s principal spokesperson on home affairs and a member of the Liberal Democrat Shadow Cabinet.
David Heath MP
Shadow Secretary of State for Justice
David has been the MP for Somerset and Frome since 1997. He was Chairman of Avon and Somerset Police Authority from 1993 to 1996 and is a former leader of Somerset County Council.
David Howarth MP
Shadow Solicitor General
David is the MP for Cambridge. A former lecturer in law and economics at Cambridge University, he was Leader of Cambridge City Council from 2000 to 2003.
Baroness Miller of Chilthorne Domer
Home Affairs Spokesperson in the House of Lords
Sue Miller has been a peer since 1998 and was the party’s agriculture spokesperson in the Lords for 8 years.
Lord Thomas
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A QC since 1979, he has also been a lecturer in law and has a strong interest in legal reform. Lord Thomas is the Liberal Democrats’ Shadow Attorney General.
Lord Avebury
Eric Avebury speaks in the House of Lords on civil liberties. As Eric Lubbock, he won the 1962 Orpington by-election and was an MP for 8 years, inheriting his peerage a year later. He sat on the Royal Commission on Standards of Conduct in Public Life 1974-6, and was Liberal Spokesman on Immigration and Race Relations, 1971-83. He is a Buddhist, and an active Patron of Angulimala, the Buddhist Prison Chaplaincy. He visits prisons, and raised prison issues in the House. He also plays an active role on asylum policy.
Baroness Harris of Richmond
Baroness Harris is the Liberal Democrats’ spokesperson on policing issues in the House of Lords.
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