Mebyon Kernow –The Party for Cornwall is a Cornish nationalist,centre-left political party in Cornwall,in southwestern Britain. It currently has five elected councillors on Cornwall Council,and several town and parish councillors across Cornwall.
Gary Titley is a British Labour Party politician and a former Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for the North West of England.
Paul Archer Tyler,Baron Tyler,CBE,PC,DL is a Liberal Democrat politician in the United Kingdom. He was a Member of Parliament (MP) from February to October 1974 and from 1992 to 2005,and sat in the House of Lords as a life peer until October 2021.
The 1999 European Parliament election was the United Kingdom's part of the European Parliament election 1999. It was held on 10 June 1999. Following the European Parliamentary Elections Act 1999,it was the first European election to be held in the United Kingdom where the whole country used a system of proportional representation. In total,87 Members of the European Parliament were elected from the United Kingdom across twelve new regional constituencies.
Sir Graham Robert Watson is a British Liberal Democrat politician who served as a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for South West England from 1994 to 2014. Watson was the chairman of the Parliament's committee on citizens rights,justice and home affairs (1999–2002),leader of the European Liberal Democrat and Reform Party Group (2002–2004) and the first leader of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe Group (2004–2009). From 2011 until 2015 he was the President of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe Party. From 2015 to 2020 he was a UK Member on the European Economic and Social Committee. He is currently (2020-22) a Distinguished Visiting Fellow at the University of Toronto's Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy.
William Francis Newton Dunn is a British politician who served as a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) from 1979 to 1994,1999 to 2014 and again from 2019 until the UK's withdrawal from the EU in 2020. He resigned from the Conservative Party in 2000 in protest of its euroscepticism and joined the Liberal Democrats.
Christopher Beazley is a British politician who served as a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) from 1984 to 1994 and again from 1999 to 2009. He was member of the Conservative Party until 2019,when he joined the Liberal Democrats.
David Martin is a Scottish politician who has served as co-convener of the Citizens' Assembly of Scotland since 2019. A member of the Scottish Labour Party,he was a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) from 1984 to 2019,having first represented the Lothians constituency until 1999 and then for the Scotland constituency. He was the United Kingdom's longest serving MEP and the second longest serving MEP in the whole European Parliament.
Roy Perry is a British Conservative Party politician. He was a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) from 1994 to 2004.
Scotland was a constituency of the European Parliament created in 1999. It elected between eight and six MEPs using the D'Hondt method of party-list proportional representation every 5 years from 1999 until 2020,when the constituency was abolished after the United Kingdom left the European Union on 31 January 2020.
Sharon Margaret Bowles,Baroness Bowles of Berkhamsted is a Liberal Democrat politician. She was a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for the South East England region of the United Kingdom from 2005 to 2014. She sat in the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe grouping. She was educated at the independent Our Lady's Abingdon,the University of Reading and Lady Margaret Hall,Oxford.
The 2009 European Parliament election was the United Kingdom's component of the 2009 European Parliament election,the voting for which was held on Thursday 4 June 2009. The election was held concurrently with the 2009 local elections in England. In total,72 Members of the European Parliament were elected from the United Kingdom using proportional representation.
Cornish nationalism is a cultural,political and social movement that seeks the recognition of Cornwall –the south-westernmost part of the island of Great Britain –as a nation distinct from England. It is usually based on three general arguments:
Catherine Zena Bearder is a British Liberal Democrat politician who served as Leader of the Liberal Democrats in the European Parliament between 2 July 2014 and 12 November 2019. She was a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for South East England from 4 June 2009 to 31 January 2020.
The English Liberal Democrats,officially the Liberal Democrats in England,is the state party within the Liberal Democrats that operates in England. It is a federation of the eleven regional parties in England which are further divided into local parties. The party currently holds 10 of the 533 English seats in the House of Commons and two of the 25 seats in the London Assembly.
Phillip Bennion is a British Liberal Democrat politician. He served as a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for the West Midlands from 2012 to 2014,and then from 2019 to 2020.
The 2014 European Parliament election was the United Kingdom's component of the 2014 European Parliament election,held on Thursday 22 May 2014,coinciding with the 2014 local elections in England and Northern Ireland. In total,73 Members of the European Parliament were elected from the United Kingdom using proportional representation. England,Scotland and Wales use a closed-list party list system of PR,while Northern Ireland used the single transferable vote (STV).
The 2019 European Parliament election was the United Kingdom's component of the 2019 European Parliament election,held on Thursday 23 May 2019 and the results were announced on Sunday 26 and Monday 27 May 2019,after all the other EU countries had voted. This was the United Kingdom's final participation in a European Parliament election before leaving the European Union on 31 January 2020,and was also the last election to be held under the provisions of the European Parliamentary Elections Act 2002 before its repeal under the European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018.
Jane Elisabeth Brophy is a British politician who was a Liberal Democrats Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for the North West England between 2019 and the United Kingdom's withdrawal from the EU on 31 January 2020. She sat as a full member on the Committee on Employment and Social Affairs and the Delegation for relations with the Federative Republic of Brazil. Brophy also sat as a substitute member on the Committee on the Environment,Public Health and Food Safety and Delegation for relations with Afghanistan.
Sheila E. Ritchie is a Scottish Liberal Democrat politician and solicitor,who served as a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for the Scotland constituency from 2019 to 2020.
