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 from the majority, centrist European People's Party (EPP) to the eurosceptic parliamentary group, the European Conservatives and Reformists. After sitting as an Independent MEP (non-attached) he joined the Liberal Democrats in March 2010. He is Patron of the UK's only pro-European membership organisation, the non-party European Movement at its London AGM.
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15 August 1949 (age 75) Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England
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Zodiac | Leo |
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