What the Papers Say - more media coverage

 Edward in Dear Mary:

Once again Mary has invited some of her favourite Persons of Distinction to submit queries for her Christmas consideration.

To read the Q & A, click here.

'They are hosting an event to promote peace and people are being ...
Guardian Unlimited, UK - 16 Feb 2008
On Tuesday, at a meeting in London, European Parliament vice-president Edward McMillan-Scott expanded on those concerns. 'They are hosting a sporting event ...
Hard-up pensioners' fury over gas profits
Scarborough Evening News, UK - 25 Feb 2008
Edward McMillan-Scott, Conservative Euro MP for Yorkshire and Humber, said he had lodged a formal complaint with the European Commission in Brussels last ...
EU President Advises Against Protests
The Associated Press - 14 Feb 2008
At the European Parliament, Conservative legislator Edward McMillan-Scott called for a full boycott of the games, saying Beijing "is not a fit host for the ...
Green issues on agenda when Charles met Euro MPs
The Star, UK - 20 Feb 2008
Prince Charles met up with Conservative Yorkshire and Humber MEPs Edward McMillan-Scott, Liberal Democrat Diana Wallis and Labour's spokeswoman on climate ...

Conservatives in the Eruopean Parliament
Castro: Conservative MEP Slams Harman "Hero" Quote
Conservatives in the Eruopean Parliament, Belgium - 26 Feb 2008
Mr Edward McMillan-Scott, Conservative Vice-President of the European Parliament and human rights campaigner, has attacked Harriet Harman, Labour's deputy ...
EU urged to condemn China 'gagging' of journalists
EUPolitix.com, Belgium - 13 Feb 2008
UK Conservative MEP Edward McMillan-Scott, one of parliament’s vice-presidents, is now urging the EU to lobby for the ban to be lifted in time for this ...

Daily Mail
China 'will make secret checks on backgrounds of Olympic visitors'
Daily Mail, UK - 16 Feb 2008
Tory MEP Edward McMillan-Scott claims China's Ministry of Public Security has drawn up a document detailing how people are to be assessed – and listing 43 ...
Steven Spielberg Quits Olympics Role Over China's Lack Of Darfur ...
Glasgow Daily Record, UK - 13 Feb 2008
And at the European Parliament's London office Edward McMillan-Scott MEP condemned China as a "terror state" and an "unfit host for the Olympics". ...
‘British Gas took my disability allowance’
Bradford Telegraph Argus, UK - 25 Feb 2008
Miss Sinclair's plight comes as Yorkshire and the Humber MEP Edward McMillan-Scott has branded the British Gas profit as "obscene".

EU urged to condemn China 'gagging' of journalists
EUPolitix.com - Brussels,Belgium
UK Conservative MEP Edward McMillan-Scott, one of parliament’s vice-presidents, is now urging the EU to lobby for the ban to be lifted in time for this ...

Spielberg ditches Olympics in protest
Metro - London,UK
And at the European Parliament's London office Edward McMillan-Scott MEP condemned China as a "terror state" and an "unfit host for the Olympics". ...

Edward McMillan-Scott: Power of the sports boycott
Yorkshire Post - Leeds,England,UK
THE Government wants it both ways on sport boycotts. It is trying to ban Zimbabwe's cricket team from a UK tour but wants to hang on to Zimbabwe – and other ...

Brown speaks out for English
Guardian Unlimited - UK
As Brown set off for China, Conservative MEP Edward McMillan-Scott said the prime minister should use his visit to threaten a boycott of the Olympics on ...

Pocket guide
Scarborough Evening News - Jan 12, 2008
Edward McMillan Scott, who has been an MEP for Yorkshire and Humber since 1984 and is current vice-president of the European Parl-iament, has drawn up the ...

Demand for more flooding cash
Scarborough Evening News, UK - Dec 31, 2007
“When we had the spring tides in October and November I showed the shadow minister Anne McIntosh and the Euro MP Edward Mcmillan-Scott just how close we ...

Struggle to survive in midst of moors beauty
Yorkshire Post Today, UK - Dec 15, 2007
... farms across the region and the country, said the Tory Euro-MP for Yorkshire and the Humber, Edward McMillan-Scott, also from a hill farming background, ...



Edward's Campaigns



Rigged Nigerian Elections
Election observers demanded that Nigeria's chaotic presidential polls should be re-run, as security forces were on full alert ahead of the first results to be released.

Edward shares pride with former Lord Mayor Mrs Peggy White CBE and Cllr Andrew Carter, Leader of Leeds City Council at the EU-funded refurbishment of the Carriageworks as a multi-purpose leisure and performance complex


Edward campaigns with PPC Philip Allott

Working with East Yorks MP Greg Knight for Brid fishermen


Edward visits an old peoples' home with Robert Light and fellow Conservative councillors


- and not just local: here Edward campaigns in the crucial Ealing by-election

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He was elected a Vice President of the European Parliament in 2004 and again in 2007. His responsibilities are relations with the Arab world and with national parliaments across Europe and beyond. From 1997 – 2001 he was Leader of the Conservatives in the European Parliament.

McMillan-Scott keeps close links with all parts of Yorkshire & Humber, with visit programmes scheduled more than once a fortnight.  He has won record EU funds for his constituency.

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28/03/2007 Europe's response to the Democracy Backlash of national unity

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