For her maiden speech Glenys Kinnock spoke out to protest at Burma's continued detention of Aung San Aung San Suu Kyi and other abuses of human rights. She takes a strong interest in the developing world and is Vice President of the ACP-EU joint assembly (for Africa, the Caribbean and the Pacific).

 "I did always feel passionately about things, I'm still more of a campaigner than a politician... I wouldn't presume to say you could change the world but you can maybe have some tiny influence on things. Giving people the chance to trade their way, to earn their way out of poverty and to influence those things is important because there is plenty of everything to go around in world, but there's a very severe shortage of the political will that we need to see to make those changes happen and to make our world a more just world."