The Forgotten Tribe: British MEPs 1979-2019
£24.99
By Dianne Hayter and David Farley
Paperback
John Harper Publishing
October 24 2022
The positive contribution of the British MEPs to Europe was rarely acknowledged in their own country, making them for the most part a “forgotten tribe”. Usually, indeed, the British media were only interested in the Eurosceptic voices among them. Nonetheless, in the words of former UK permanent representative Ivan Rogers: “The EU as a whole benefitted hugely from the expertise, the wisdom, the breadth, the temperament, the professionalism, the humour and even the constructive healthy scepticism of so many good British MEPs over the decades. Those contributions won’t be forgotten, and the imprint on what the EU has now become is indelible.” For this book, Dianne Hayter and David Harley have brought together former MEPs and UK officials, Westminster politicians, journalists and even MEP family members to commemorate and illuminate those contributions. In addition, the book includes a consolidated listing of all 351 directly elected UK MEPs and 16 pages of photographs. With contributions by Lorin Bell-Cross, David Blackman, William Bethell, Michael Crick, Alan Donnelly, Brendan Donnelly, Duncan Enright, Tom Fieldhouse, David Gow, Rachel Johnson, Richard Johnson, John Kerr, Neil Kinnock, Giada Lagana, Alistair Lexden, Roger Liddle, David Lidington, Caroline Lucas, David McAllister, Giles Merritt, Claude Moraes, Tom Newton Dunn, Caroline Nokes, Rory Palmer, George Parker, Anita Pollack, George Robertson, Ivan Rogers, Michael Russell, Joshua Stratford, Christopher Tugendhat, Graham Watson & Gareth Williams.