Rory Palmer

Rory Palmer is a British Labour politician. He became Labour member of the European Parliament for the East Midlands on 3 October 2017.[1]

Political career

He was a Leicester city councillor for Eyres Monsell from 2007 to 2017 and deputy to the Mayor of Leicester Peter Soulsby.[2]

In the 2010 general election, he stood in Bosworth.[3]

In the 2014 European Parliament election, he was second on the Labour party list in the East Midlands constituency[4] but was not elected. Glenis Willmott MEP announced in July 2017 that she would stand down in October and Palmer succeeded her.[5]

References

  1. ↑ "Rory Palmer". European Parliament. Retrieved 7 October 2017.
  2. ↑ "Councillor Rory Palmer". Retrieved 6 July 2017.
  3. ↑ "Election Data 2010". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 26 July 2013. Retrieved 17 October 2015.
  4. ↑ Cook, David (24 April 2014). "Statement of Persons Nominated". Kettering Borough Council. Retrieved 3 May 2014.
  5. ↑ Fagan, Ciaran (5 July 2017). "Leicester Deputy Mayor Rory Palmer to become an MEP". Leicester Mercury. Retrieved 6 July 2017.
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