Edward McMillan-Scott

Edward Hugh Christian McMillan-Scott (born 15 August 1949) is a British politician.

He was a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for Yorkshire and the Humber constituency. He was elected four times as European Parliament Vice-President, 2004–2014: his main portfolio was Human Rights and Democracy. He was first elected as an MEP in 1984. McMillan-Scott was a Conservative until his protest over the move of the Conservatives after the June 2009 European Elections to a newly created, then moderately eurosceptic parliamentary group, the European Conservatives and Reformists; he lost the whip but was then expelled from the Conservatives without notice or explanation. He appealed but after sitting as an Independent MEP (non-attached) he joined the Liberal Democrats in March 2010. On 22 November 2014 he was voted a Patron of the UK's only pro-European membership organisation, the non-party European Movement at its London AGM.

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Hungarian PM thanks UK Tory MEPs who voted against sanctions

The Observer 24 Sep 2018

Hungarian PM vows to continue battle with EU over migration. Read more ... Most British Conservative MEPs opposed the plan ... Read more ... Echoing this view, a former leader of the Conservatives in Brussels and Strasbourg, Edward McMillan-Scott, said he no longer recognised the party he had been a member of for 25 years ... This is a stain on Britain ... Read more ... ....

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Former Tory MEP leader criticises party's stance on supporting Hungary

The Guardian 21 Sep 2018

Edward McMillan-Scott was leader of Conservative MEPs between 1997 and 2001, but clashed with David Cameron over the decision to withdraw from the centre-right European People’s party in 2009 ... But they are now dominant.” ... Conservative sources dismissed McMillan-Scott, who lost the party whip, but similar concerns have been made by Tory moderates ... .......

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‘It’s not a done deal’: inside the battle to stop Brexit

The Guardian 28 Apr 2018

With less than a year remaining, the opponents of Brexit are mobilising ... by Dorian Lynskey ... He’s seen worse ... Twitter ... Simultaneously, the former Tory MEP Edward McMillan-Scott began chairing Where Next for Brexit?, a separate but overlapping talking shop whose heavyweight attendees included Gina Miller, Alastair Campbell, Lord Adonis and AC Grayling ... ....

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The new Brexit minister, the arms industry, the American hard right… and Equatorial Guinea

Open Democracy 01 Jul 2017

Speaking to openDemocracy, Edward McMillan-Scott, the former leader of the Conservative group in the European parliament, said, “Steve Baker is a patsy for the likes of Dan Hannan”, referring to the Eurosceptic MEP, and claimed that he had nothing like the knowledge of Europe required to understand what he was really doing ... CC by NC 4.0 ....