Greville Ewan Janner, Baron Janner of Braunstone (born July 11 1928) is a British politician in the Labour Party. He was born in Cardiff, Wales to Jewish parents. He was educated at St Paul’s School in London and during the war was evacuated to Canada where he went to Bishop’s College School, Lennoxville, Quebec.

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  • Greville Ewan Janner, Baron Janner of Braunstone (born July 11 1928) is a British politician in the Labour Party. He was born in Cardiff, Wales to Jewish parents. He was educated at St Paul’s School in London and during the war was evacuated to Canada where he went to Bishop’s College School, Lennoxville, Quebec. Later, Lord Janner trained as a lawyer, attending Trinity Hall, Cambridge where he was President of the Cambridge Union Society in 1952, and Harvard Law School, which he attended through both the Fulbright and Smith-Mundt awards. He became a barrister and was appointed a QC in 1971. . He represented Leicester North West and then Leicester West in the House of Commons from 1970 until his retirement in 1997. . His predecessor in the seat was his father, Sir Barnett Janner. It is now held by Patricia Hewitt. He was president of the Board of Deputies of British Jews, the main representative body of British Jewry, from 1978 to 1984, and was a key campaigner in the efforts to get reparations for victims of the Holocaust. . He was created a life peer as Baron Janner of Braunstone, of Leicester in the County of Leicestershire in 1997. . He is a member of the All-Party Parliamentary Group against Anti-Semitism, and the Israel APPG. . (en)
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  • Greville Ewan Janner, Baron Janner of Braunstone (born July 11 1928) is a British politician in the Labour Party. He was born in Cardiff, Wales to Jewish parents. He was educated at St Paul’s School in London and during the war was evacuated to Canada where he went to Bishop’s College School, Lennoxville, Quebec. (en)
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  • Greville Janner, Baron Janner of Braunstone (en)
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