John Howarth
John Howarth (born October 31, 1958 in Newcastle-upon-Tyne ) is a British Labor Party politician and was a Member of the European Parliament for the constituency of South East England from 2017 to January 31, 2020 .
Life
John Howarth's father, also John Howarth, worked in the coal industry. His mother Freda Howarth (nee Robinson) was the daughter of Joe Robinson, a deputy of the Heworth colliery. John Howarth names his grandfather particularly influential in his early political thinking.
Howarth attended Wardley Infant and Junior Schools and Highfield Comprehensive Comprehensive School. He studied economics at the University of Essex and completed a master's degree in the history and theory of 20th century art. His master's thesis dealt with the work of the German director Werner Herzog .
Howarth became politically active for the Labor Party in 1974 . From 1981 to 1982 he was national secretary general of Labor Students, the party's student organization. From 1982 he worked full-time in the organization of Labor.
In 1988 Howarth moved into the private sector and moved to Reading. He worked for a medium-sized IT company, where he became director of marketing and partner in the company. In 1995 he founded his own company, which offers marketing consulting and later brand, design and business communication. He also works as a consultant for Instinctif Partners, an international corporate communications company.
John Howarth is married with two children from his first marriage and a stepdaughter.
Local politics
In 1990 Howard became chairman of the Labor Party in Reading . In 1993 he was elected to the Berkshire County Council . There he was chairman of the transport committee and later deputy chairman of the environmental committee. He resigned as chairman of the Reading Labor Party in 1994 and became its press secretary, a role he held for the next ten years. In 1998 Berkshire County Council was triggered, which Howarth had advocated.
From 2001 to 2007 he was a member of the Borough Council of Reading. He was vice-chairman of the sports and cultural services committee for a year and then became a member of the city council, responsible for transport and strategic planning. Howarth was among other things chairman of the Reading Station Project Board, which organized the (successful) financing of the expansion of the Great Western Mainline in Reading.
MEP
In the European elections in 1994 , John Howarth was a Labor candidate for the Thames Valley constituency and surprisingly narrowly failed against the Conservative candidate. After switching to proportional representation, he ran unsuccessfully in 1999 on the Labor list in South East England.
In the 2014 election , Howarth was number two on the Labor list - number one was reserved for women - and again failed to make it into the European Parliament. In 2017, the elected MEP Anneliese Dodds was elected to the British House of Commons and Howarth moved up to the European Parliament on June 30, 2017. In 2019 Howarth was the top candidate on the Labor list in South East England and was able to defend his mandate.
Howarth was a member of the budget committee in the European Parliament. He was a member of Parliament's delegation to CARIFORUM .
Web links
- Entry on John Howarth in the European Parliament 's database of MEPs
- Official website of John Howarth
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Howarth, John |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British Labor Party politician, MEP |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 31, 1958 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Newcastle-upon-Tyne |