Richard Corbett is a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for the Labour Party for Yorkshire and the Humber. He is Deputy Leader of the European Parliamentary Labour Party, Vice-Chair of the European Movement in the UK and Chair of the Labour Movement for Europe. Between 2010 and 2014, he was an advisor to the President of the European Council, Herman Van Rompuy. In this capacity, and as a frequent writer and commentator on European affairs, he was voted by a panel of retired diplomats, journalists, academics and think-tankers as the fourth most influential Briton on EU policy.
