Edward McMillan-Scott, Date of Birth, Place of Birth
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British politician
Date of Birth: 15-Aug-1949
Place of Birth: Cambridge, England, United Kingdom
Profession: politician
Nationality: United Kingdom
Zodiac Sign: Leo 
About Edward McMillan-Scott
- 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.
- On 22 November 2014 he was voted a Patron of the UK's only pro-European membership organisation, the non-party European Movement at its London AGM.In May 2017 he was invited to fight the West Worcestershire parliamentary seat during the "snap" General Election for the Liberal Democrats.
- His home is near Pershore, Worcestershire, where his family moved from Yorkshire in the 18th century. McMillan-Scott was leader of the Conservative MEPs 1997–2001.
- He was re-elected top of the Yorkshire & Humber regional list in the 2009 election.
- McMillan-Scott is a lifelong pro-European.
- Following David Cameron's decision to withdraw the Conservative MEPs from the centrist European People's Party in order to form the European Conservative and Reformist's Group, McMillan-Scott objected.
- When the composition of Cameron's new ECR group was announced after the European elections of 2009, McMillan-Scott protested.
- The new group was described by Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg as "a bunch of nutters, homophobes, anti-Semites and climate-change deniers".
- He successfully stood as an independent Vice-President against the nominee of the ECR Group, Polish MEP Michal Kaminski, criticising Kaminski's alleged past links to extremism, confirmed inter alia by the Daily Telegraph.
- He is the only Vice-President to have been elected without an official party candidature.In March 2010, he joined the Liberal Democrats with whom he had usually worked closely on democracy and human rights issues.
- In May 2010 he became a member of the Group of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe in the European Parliament.
- He then sat as ALDE Vice-President of the European Parliament.
- In January 2012, he was re-elected as Vice-President for the fourth time.
- He once again received the portfolio for Democracy and Human Rights as well as additionally gaining the Sakharov Prize Network, which underpins the parliament's annual prize for freedom of expression and responsibility for transatlantic relations.
- In the 2014 election he lost his seat as an MEP in an election that saw nationwide gains for the UK Independence Party, and the Liberal Democrats coming fifth and losing all but one of their seats. At the 2015 general election, he was asked by Liberal Democrat HQ to stand as a nominal candidate for the Yorkshire parliamentary seat of Normanton, Pontefract and Castleford.
- The seat was retained by the Labour Party candidate Yvette Cooper MP with a 15,428 majority, whilst McMillan-Scott lost his deposit.
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