Gary Titley
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Gary Titley is a British politician, currently leader of the European Parliamentary Labour Party (EPLP) and Labour Party Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for the North West of England.
He is a former director of the West Midlands Enterprise Board and chaired the West Midlands Co-op Finance Company and the Black Country Co-op Development Agency. He was previously a member of the Labour Party's Plant Committee on electoral reform. Previously a teacher of modern languages.
Member of the subsequently abolished West Midlands County Council 1981-86.
He was first elected an MEP in June 1989. He became leader of the EPLP in 2002.
In January 2004 a letter bomb was sent to his office and opened by his wife, a member of his staff. It immediately started to smoke and then caught fire, but no one was injured.