Richard Corbett
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Richard Corbett (born 1955) is a Member of the European Parliament for the Labour Party for Yorkshire and the Humber. He has been a member of the European Parliament since 1996. Under the single member constituency system that predates the present proportional representation system, he represented Merseyside West.
Before being elected, he worked in the voluntary sector and as a civil servant.
Richard Corbett is a member of the Parliament's Constitutional Affairs committee and is the spokesman for the Labour Party, as well as the larger Group of the Party of European Socialists, on European constitutional affairs. In 2004, he was the co-rapporteur (with Iñigo Méndez de Vigo) for Parliament on the Treaty establishing a constitution for Europe. This report formed the basis of Parliament's official position on the treaty.
Richard Corbett is also the author of an eponymous academic textbook on the European Parliament.
External link
- Official website (http://www.richardcorbett.org.uk/)