James served as Shadow Home Secretary from the General Election in July 2024 until November 2024. James had served as Home Secretary since November 2023. Prior to that, he had served as Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs since September 2022, having previously served as Secretary of State for Education, Minister for Europe at the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO), Minister for Middle East and North Africa and as joint Minister of State in the Foreign & Commonwealth Office and the Department for International Development.
James Cleverly rejects an amendment to the Brexit Bill that would see the Charter of Fundamental Rights continue to apply to domestic law post-Brexit as the rights already exist in UK law and Parliament has a good track record on standing up for human rights.
Speaking at Prime Minister's Questions, James Cleverly calls on the PM to build a Britain fit for the future, encourage home ownership, improve education, health and life chances and leave the country in a better place than we found it.
James Cleverly questions the Government on efforts to address the gender pay gap, which can partly be explained by professional and other women returning to the workplace in lesser roles than the ones they left to take time off to raise families or look after loved ones.
Following the Ministerial statement on the theft of the personal data of 57 million Uber customers and drivers, James Cleverly asks what the Government is doing to ensure the confidence of the British public in such data-driven market disrupters.
James Cleverly backs a Bill to improve the management of the appropriate use of force used in relation to patients in mental health facilities. In particular, he supports a clause that would require standardised record keeping on use of force across all facilities which will provide an accurate understanding of how many times the use of force unfortunately leads to injury or fatality and may also, in itself, prompt a pause for reflection before force is used.
Following the Government response to the Hirst judgment on prisoner voting rights, James Cleverly asks how it will be communicated to the prisoners themselves that their voting rights are removed while incarcerated and the circumstances under which they are returned.
Speaking in an Opposition Day debate, James Cleverly warns against publication of the Government's Brexit impact assessments as potentially putting valuable information into the hands of the people which whom we are negotiating.