Matthew Patten | |
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| Member of the European Parliament for East Midlands | |
| In office 2 July 2019 –31 January 2020 | |
| Preceded by | Emma McClarkin |
| Succeeded by | Constituency abolished |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 21 May 1962 Bishop's Stortford,Hertfordshire,England |
| Other political affiliations | Brexit (2019–2021) Conservative (until 2019) |
Matthew Richard Patten [1] (born 21 May 1962) is a former British politician. He was a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for the East Midlands between 2019 and the United Kingdom's withdrawal from the EU on 31 January 2020. [2] He had previously been a Conservative [3] councillor for Bradfield,Wix and Wrabness in Tendring District,Essex. [4]
Patten was once the Chief Executive of the cricket and disability sports charity The Lord's Taverners. [5] He was the Chief Executive for the social mobility charity Mayor's Fund for London from 2012 until 2018, [6] and spoke at the November 2017 ACEVO conference on the third sector. [7] In 2015,he called for a watchdog similar to Ofsted to "improve performance,prevent abuse and give confidence to funders and other stakeholders" within British charities. [8]
In the European Parliament he was appointed a member of the Employment and Social Affairs Committee,the Delegation for Relations with Iran and the Delegation to the EU-North Macedonia Joint Parliamentary Committee.
He was the Brexit Party's prospective parliamentary candidate for Clacton for the 2019 general election, [9] but withdrew when Nigel Farage announced the party would not contest Tory-held seats. [10]
He is currently the CEO of Fix Britain (https://fixbritain.com/leadership-team/).
