The Right Honourable Lord Alton of Liverpool |
Lord Alton was elected as a Member of Parliament for the Liberal Party in 1979 and was at that point the youngest MP in the House of Commons. He was a member of the House of Commons for eighteen years and served at various times as a spokesman for Home and Environmental Affairs and as Chief Whip. In 1997, he was made a life peer and took his seat in the House of Lord as a crossbencher. An internationally renowned human rights activist, Lord Alton is the chairman of the All-Parliamentary Group on North Korea and was one of the first British politicians to visit that country. His travels have also taken him to Burma, Congo and the Sudan. Lord Alton is passionate about fostering a generation of young people who strive to be men and women for others – a vision that also underpins the work of CDI.
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