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Lord Falconer PC, KC

Charles Leslie Falconer, Baron Falconer of Thoroton PC, KC  is a British Labour politician and barrister. Falconer became the Lord Chancellor and the first Secretary of State for Constitutional Affairs in 2003 under Prime Minister Tony Blair, and would go on to become the first Secretary of State for Justice in a 2007 reorganization and enlargement of the portfolio of the Department for Constitutional Affairs.