Maiden speech House of Commons 3 April 1979 Mr David Alton - In rising to speak I am conscious of the fact that this is the closing moment of this Parliament. That brings to mind two matters. Earlier we heard the final contribution in this House of the right hon...
Spoken Interventions in the House of Lords
To read the details of the following interventions in House of Lords debates and questions please click on this link: TheyWorkForYou Website Results 1-20 of 406 items spoken by Lord Alton of Liverpool in Commons debates or Westminster Hall debates or Lords debates or...
About David Alton
About DAVID ALTON… For 18 years David Alton was a Member of the House of Commons and today is an Independent Crossbench Life Peer. He began his career as a teacher but, in 1972, he was elected to Liverpool City Council as Britain's youngest City Councillor. Twenty...
Written Questions In the House of Lords
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The Edge Hill By-Election
Thirty years ago, on March 29th 1979, I won my seat in the House of Commons , elected to represent Liverpool Edge Hill. With a majority of 8,133, a swing of 32%, and 64% of the votes, Edge Hill briefly became one of those record breaking by-elections. The Guinness...
Senator George Mitchell
On behalf of Liverpool John Moore's University I recently chaired a public lecture given by Senator George Mitchell, one of the principal architects of Northern Ireland's Good Friday Agreement. I had asked him to reflect on the principal challenges facing western...
The Gulags of North Korea
At a hearing which I recently chaired in the Moses Room of the House of Lords, we took evidence from two north Korean dissidents who escaped from the country's gulags - where 200,000 people are incarcerated. These were some of the most moving first-hand accounts I...
Dignitatis Humanae and Its Contribution To International Religious Freedom Since Vatican II
Article for The Review of Faith and International Affairs By David Alton To see the PowerPoint presentation which accompanies this text, click here. In western democracies the contemporary debate about religious freedom revolves around definitions of legitimate...
Burma: genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity
Text of remarks by Lord Alton of Liverpool at a Press Conference in Parliament on Thursday 23rd June 2005, organised by Jubilee Campaign and Christian Solidarity Worldwide. In 1998, the then UN Special Rapporteur on Burma, Mr. Rajsoomer Lallah QC, submitted a report...
Parliamentary Briefing: Darfur – The Genocide Continues
1 - BRIEFING SUMMARY 1.1 - Immediate Action Needed 2 - DARFUR: “a little short of hell on earth” 2.1 - Sudan Kills its Own Citizens with Impunity 2.2 - The Scale of the Disaster in Darfur 2.3 - The Number of Dead 2.4 - The Media Vacuum 3 - THE INTERNATIONAL RESPONSE...
For 18 years David Alton was a Member of the House of Commons and today he is an Independent Crossbench Life Peer in the UK House of Lords.
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At the crossroads: Will the free world choose isolationism or global leadership? Essay for GIS Reports April 19th 2024.
https://www.gisreportsonline.com/r/crossroads-isolationism-leadership At the crossroads: Will the free world choose isolationism or global leadership? LORD DAVID ALTON OF LIVERPOOL READING TIME: 16 MIN History teaches us that isolationism leads to disaster. Will the...
Letter from the Lord (David) Alton and Sir Geoffrey Clifton-Brown MP, co chairs of the All Party Parliamentary Group on North Korea, to Lord (David) Cameron, the Foreign Secretary, about the CCP’s forced repatriation of North Korean refugees in breach of both the 1951 Refugee Convention and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
£1 Trillion – Raised In Parliament Today. The Cost of Reparations In Ukraine and Bringing To Justice Those Responsible.
https://youtu.be/xlEfrgwELvc Alongside the fatalities, injuries and chronic suffering and misery which Putin’s war has brought to Ukraine, the economic cost of rebuilding and remedying war damage is now estimated to be close to £1 trillion. Yesterday David...