Tony Greaves, Baron Greaves

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Anthony Robert Greaves, Baron Greaves (born 27 July 1942) is a UK politician. He is a Liberal Democrat member of the House of Lords.

Together with Gordon Lishman, Greaves moved the party's famous Community Politics motion. This approach to putting power in the hands of ordinary people is credited with raising the Liberal Democrats to their best ever position, and the best for any party in the liberal tradition in over 80 years: 63 Members of Parliament.

Greaves was born in Bradford, before moving to the North West. He was a member of the Lancashire County Council for 25 years and a Local Councillor on Colne and Pendle Borough Councils.

His politics are generally considered to be left wing, and he is on record opposing some of the reforms to his party being led by Sir Menzies Campbell.

He was made a life peer as Baron Greaves, of Pendle in the County of Lancashire in 2000.

He is married with two daughters, one of whom was a candidate in the Preston City Council elections in 2006.