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I've been the Liberal Democrat Member of the European Parliament for the East of England since 1999.

I work all year round representing the region which covers the counties of Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire, Essex, Hertfordshire, Norfolk, and Suffolk, including Bedford borough, Central Bedfordshire, Luton, Peterborough, Southend-on-Sea and Thurrock.

This website includes information about my work in the region, visiting important local sites, campaigning and speaking to constituents. It will also keep you updated with my work in the European Parliament; you can follow my votes, newest publications and watch the European Parliament live.

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Recent updates

  • Duff: Europeans must be protected from Prism snooping
    Article: Jun 18, 2013

    Lib Dem MEP for the East of England has backed calls from his colleague Sarah Ludford, the ALDE group shadow rapporteur on the update of EU data protection law, is demanding that an 'anti-FISA' clause be reintroduced in the text of the proposed new Regulation.

    They want to ensure that EU customers are shielded from US National Security Agency data-mining authorised by the Patriot Act and the secret Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act court, such as the recently revealed 'PRISM' programme.

  • G8 Leaders must bring Turkey back into dialogue with West
    Article: Jun 17, 2013

    The G8 meeting in Northern Ireland should make a clear statement on the escalating crisis in Turkey. I have written to UK Prime Minister David Cameron and to EU Commission President José Manuel Barroso to urge as many of the G8 leaders as possible not to miss the opportunity of their meeting to condemn the provocative stance adopted by Prime Minister Recep Tayip Erdogan.

  • A Million Jobs
    Article: Jun 14, 2013

    The first phase of the campaign is a major apprenticeships drive. The party's ambition is to double the number of companies offering apprenticeships from 100,000 to 200,000.

    Campaigning 'Action Days' will take place across the country tomorrow [Saturday], with MPs and local parties highlighting the work they and the party nationally are doing to help create jobs and apprenticeships in their local areas.

    Commenting, Liberal Democrat Leader and Deputy Prime Minister, Nick Clegg said:

  • Composition of Parliament: pragmatism must prevail in favour of institutional solution
    Article: Jun 12, 2013

    Liberals and Democrats today rallied around a pragmatic solution which will allow the next Parliament to integrate the new Croatian MEPs without upsetting the overall balance of the Parliament's composition. The European Parliament meeting for the Strasbourg plenary session decided overwhelmingly for a distribution of seats between Member States resulting from an empirical method, based on the desire to minimize deviations from the current situation.

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