Emma Harriet Nicholson,Baroness Nicholson of Winterbourne is a British politician,who has been a life peer since 1997. She was elected as the Conservative Member of Parliament for Torridge and West Devon in 1987,before switching to the Liberal Democrats in 1995. She was also the Liberal Democrat Member of the European Parliament for South East England from 1999 to 2009. In 2016,she announced she was re-joining the Conservative Party "with tremendous pleasure". In 2017,Baroness Nicholson was appointed as Prime Minister's Trade Envoy for Kazakhstan.
Claude Ajit Moraes is a British Labour Party politician and campaigner,who was a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for London between 1999 and the United Kingdom's withdrawal from the EU on 31 January 2020. He was chair of the Civil Liberties,Justice and Home Affairs Committee,Deputy Leader of the European Parliamentary Labour Party and Vice-President of the Socialists and Democrats Group in the European Parliament.
Linda McAvan is a British Labour Party politician,who was a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for Yorkshire and the Humber from 1998,when she was first elected in a by-election following the resignation of Norman West. She served until her resignation on 19 April 2019.
Neena Gill,is a British Labour Party politician. She served as a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for the West Midlands first from 1999 to 2009,and then from 2014 to 2020.
Philip Bushill-Matthews is a former British politician. He was Conservative Party Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for the West Midlands.
Sajjad Haider Karim is a British politician. He served as a Member of the European Parliament for the North West England between 2004 and 2019. Sajjad is one of 10 members of the executive of European Movement UK and Chair of Conservative European Forum Trade.
Catherine Dalling Taylor Stihler is a Scottish former politician who is chief executive officer (CEO) of Creative Commons. A member of the Scottish Labour Party,she was a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for Scotland from 1999 to 2019.
Mairead McGuinness is an Irish politician serving as the European Commissioner for Financial Stability,Financial Services and the Capital Markets Union since October 2020. A member of Fine Gael,she previously served as First Vice-President of the European Parliament from 2017 to 2020. She served as a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for East from 2004 to 2014 and for Midlands–North-West from 2014 to 2020,making her Ireland's longest serving MEP. In the European Parliament,she sat with the European People's Party (EPP).
Simon Francis Murphy is a British charity executive and former politician who was a Labour Member of the European Parliament (MEP) from 1994 to 2004.
Dame Glenis Willmott,is a retired British Labour Party politician who served as leader of the European Parliamentary Labour Party (EPLP) and Member of the European Parliament for the East Midlands.
Robert Antony Hayward,Baron Hayward,is a British Conservative Party politician.
Jacqueline Foster,Baroness Foster of Oxton,is a British Conservative politician and a former Member of the European Parliament for the North West England region.
William Legge,10th Earl of Dartmouth,styled Viscount Lewisham from 1962 to 1997,is a British politician and hereditary peer,usually known as William Dartmouth.
The European Conservatives and Reformists Party,formerly known as Alliance of European Conservatives and Reformists (AECR) (2009–2016) and Alliance of Conservatives and Reformists in Europe (ACRE) (2016–2019),is a conservative soft Eurosceptic European political party with a main focus on reforming the European Union (EU) on the basis of Eurorealism,as opposed to total rejection of the EU (anti-EU-ism). It currently has twenty-four member parties and three further independent members from twenty-one countries,in addition to seven regional partners worldwide.
Pauline Elizabeth Latham,is a British Conservative Party politician,who was elected at the 2010 general election as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Mid Derbyshire.
Andrew James Griffiths is a British Conservative Party politician. He served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Burton from 2010 to 2019. He was succeeded by his estranged wife,Kate Griffiths.
Anthea Elizabeth Joy McIntyre,is a British Conservative Party politician who served as a Member of the European Parliament for the West Midlands from 2011 to 2020.
Nicola Beer is a German lawyer and politician of the Free Democratic Party (FDP) who has been serving as a Member of the European Parliament since 2019,and as one of its Vice-Presidents.
The 2020 New Year Honours are appointments by some of the 16 Commonwealth realms to various orders and honours to recognise and reward good works by citizens of those countries. The New Year Honours are awarded as part of the New Year celebrations at the start of January and were officially announced in The London Gazette on 27 December 2019. Australia,an independent Realm,has a separate honours system and its first honours of the year,the 2020 Australia Day Honours,coincide with Australia Day on 26 January.
