European Parliamentary Labour Party
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The European Parliamentary Labour Party is an integral part of the Socialist Group
Party of European Socialists
The Party of European Socialists is a European political party led by Sergei Stanishev, former Prime Minister of Bulgaria. The PES comprises social-democratic national-level political parties primarily from Member state of the European Union, as well as other nations of the European continent. The...

 in the European Parliament
European Parliament
The European Parliament is the directly elected parliamentary institution of the European Union . Together with the Council of the European Union and the Commission, it exercises the legislative function of the EU and it has been described as one of the most powerful legislatures in the world...

 and of the British Labour Party
Labour Party (UK)
The Labour Party is a centre-left democratic socialist party in the United Kingdom. It surpassed the Liberal Party in general elections during the early 1920s, forming minority governments under Ramsay MacDonald in 1924 and 1929-1931. The party was in a wartime coalition from 1940 to 1945, after...

. Labour's Euro Parliamentarians represent their voters so as to advance democracy, social justice, prosperity, peace and sustainable development in the UK, EU and throughout the world.

Labour MEPs

Labour has 13 Euro MEPs in the European Parliament. The European Parliamentary Labour Party sits as part of the multi-national Socialist Group in the European Parliament, but it has its own leadership and spokespeople representing Britain in Brussels and Strasbourg.

Below are details about positions held by Labour MEPs in the European Parliamentary Labour Party, the Socialist Group in the European Parliament and the European Parliament.

European Parliamentary Labour Party officers

  • Leader: Glenis Willmott
    Glenis Willmott
    Glenis Willmott is a British politician, currently leader of the European Parliamentary Labour Party and Labour member of the European Parliament for East Midlands....

     MEP
  • Deputy Leader: Claude Moraes MEP
  • Chair:
  • Whip:

Socialist Group in the European Parliament

British Labour MEPs hold key positions in the Socialist Group in the European Parliament, a pan national group of which the Labour Party is a member. Committee co-ordinators operate as spokespeople for the Socialist Group in the European Parliament in their respective committee; they co-ordinate decisions on policy with each of the different national groups that make up the Socialist Group in the European Parliament.

Socialist Group in the European Parliament Committee co-ordinators

Constitutional Affairs Committee Richard Corbett MEP
Employment and Social Affairs Committee Stephen Hughes MEP

The following British Labour MEPs hold key positions in the European Parliament

  • Chair of Committee on Internal Market and Consumer Protection
    Committee on Internal Market and Consumer Protection
    The Committee on the Internal Market and Consumer Protection is a committee of the European Parliament.- Work of the committee :The committee is responsible for:...

     Arlene McCarthy
    Arlene McCarthy
    Arlene McCarthy is a Member of the European Parliament for North West England for the Labour Party.-Biography:...

     MEP
  • Co-President of the ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly
    ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly
    The ACP–EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly was created to bring together the elected representatives of the European Union and the elected representatives of the African, Caribbean and Pacific states that have signed the Cotonou Agreement.Since the entry into force of the Treaty on European Union...

     Glenys Kinnock
    Glenys Kinnock
    Glenys Elizabeth Kinnock, Baroness Kinnock and Baroness Kinnock of Holyhead is a British politician....

     MEP
  • Chair of the South Asia & SAARC Delegation Neena Gill
    Neena Gill
    Neena Gill was a Member of the European Parliament for the West Midlands for the Labour Party from 1999 to 2009. Prior to becoming a Member of the European Parliament, she was Chief Executive of ASRA and the Newlon Housing Group...

     MEP
  • 1st Vice Chair of Subcommittee on Human Rights
    Subcommittee on Human Rights
    The Subcommittee on Human Rights is a subcommittee of the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the European Parliament. The committee is chaired by Barbara Lochbihler .- See also :* Sakharov Prize...

     Richard Howitt
    Richard Howitt
    Richard Howitt is a Member of the European Parliament for the Labour Party for the East of England. He has been a member of the European Parliament since 1994.-Background:...

     MEP
  • 1st Vice Chair of the Committee on Petitions
    Committee on Petitions
    The Committee on Petitions is a committee of the European Parliament.Petitions can also be brought forward by any EU citizen on a matter within the EU's sphere of activities. The Committee hears cases, some 1500 each year, sometimes presented by the citizen themselves at the Parliament...

     Michael Cashman
    Michael Cashman
    Michael Maurice Cashman is a British former actor, now a Labour politician. He has been a Member of the European Parliament for the West Midlands constituency since 1999.- Acting :...

    MEP

EPLP spokespeople

Labour has an official spokesperson for each committee in the European Parliament. These MEPs represent Labour policy on these committees and act as spokespeople on the subjects covered by the committee.
  • Michael Cashman is MEP for the West Midlands region representing Sandwell, Dudley, Walsall, Coventry, Warwickshire & Staffordshire in the European Parliament.
  • Richard Corbett is the Deputy Leader of the European Parliamentary Labour Party and represents Bradford, Calderdale, East Yorkshire, Hull, Leeds, North Yorkshire, Wakefield and York in the Yorkshire & the Humber region.
  • Robert Evans is the Chair of the European Parliamentary Labour Party and represents the London Boroughs of Brent, Ealing, Hammersmith & Fulham, Harrow, Hillingdon, Hounslow, Kingston upon Thames, Merton, Richmond upon Thames and Sutton.
  • Glyn Ford represents the South West of England which includes Bath and North East Somerset, Bournemouth, Bristol, Cornwall, Devon, Dorset, Gibraltar, Gloucestershire, Isles of Scilly, Plymouth, Poole, Somerset, Swindon, Torbay and Wiltshire.
  • Neena Gill is the MEP for the West Midlands Region representing Birmingham, Herefordshire, Shropshire, Wolverhampton and Worcestershire.
  • Mary Honeyball represents the London Boroughs of Bexley, Bromley, Camden, Croydon, Greenwich, Kensington & Chelsea, Lambeth, Lewisham, Southwark, Wandsworth and Westminster.
  • Richard Howitt represents the East of England covering Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire, Essex, Hertfordshire, Luton, Norfolk, Peterborough, Southend-on-Sea, Suffolk and Thurrock.
  • Stephen Hughes represents the North East of England covering Darlington, Durham, Hartlepool, Middlesbrough, Northumberland, Redcar & Cleveland, Stockton on Tees and Tyne and Wear.
  • Glenys Kinnock MEP represents Wales and is the President of the Joint Parliamentary Assembly of the EU and African, Caribbean and Pacific States. » more David Martin MEP
  • David Martin is a Member of the European Parliament representing Scotland.
  • Linda McAvan represents Barnsley, Doncaster, Kirklees, North East Lincolnshire, North Lincolnshire, Rotherham, Sheffield and Wakefield in the Yorkshire and the Humber region.
  • Arlene McCarthy represents Chester, Crosby, Ellesmere Port & Neston, Liverpool, Manchester, Oldham, Sefton, Stockport, Tameside and Wirral in the North West of England.
  • Claude Moraes represents the London Boroughs of Barnet, Barking & Dagenham, City, Enfield, Hackney, Haringey, Havering, Islington, Newham, Redbridge, Tower Hamlets and Waltham Forest. » more Eluned Morgan MEP
  • Eluned Morgan is one of the Members of European Parliament representing Wales.
  • Brian Simpson represents Allerdale, Barrow-in-Furness, Carlisle, Congleton, Copeland, Crewe & Nantwich, Eden, Halton, Knowsley, Macclesfield, South Lakeland, St Helens, Vale Royal, Warrington and Wigan.
  • Peter Skinner represents Bracknell Forest, Brighton & Hove, Buckinghamshire, East Sussex, Hampshire, Isle of Wight, Kent, Medway Towns, Milton Keynes, Newbury, Oxfordshire, Portsmouth, Reading, Slough, Southampton, Surrey, West Sussex, Windsor & Maidenhead and Wokingham in the South East of England.
  • Catherine Stihler is a Member of the European Parliament for Scotland. » more Gary Titley MEP
  • Gary Titley is the Leader of the Labour MEPs and represents the North West of England covering Blackburn with Darwen, Blackpool, Bolton, Burnley, Bury, Chorley, Fylde, Hyndburn, Lancaster, Pendle, Preston, Ribble Valley, Salford, South Ribble, Trafford, Rochdale, Rossendale, West Lancashire and Wyre.
  • Glenis Willmott is the European Parliamentary Labour Party Whip and represents the East Midlands region which covers Derbyshire, Leicestershire, Lincolnshire, Northamptonshire, Nottinghamshire and Rutland.
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