Diana Wallis

Diana Wallis
FCIL
Member of the European Parliament
for Yorkshire and the Humber
In office
10 June 1999 – 8 March 2012
Preceded byNew constituency
Succeeded byRebecca Taylor
Personal details
Born (1954-06-28) 28 June 1954 (age 70)
Hitchin, Hertfordshire, England
Political partyChange UK (2019)
Yorkshire Party (2015–2019)
Liberal Democrat (past)
SpouseStewart Arnold
Alma materNorth London Polytechnic
University of Kent
OccupationPolitician and lawyer
ProfessionLawyer
Websitehttps://dianawallis.wordpress.com/

Diana Paulette Wallis, FCIL (born 28 June 1954[1] in Hitchin, Hertfordshire) is a British former Liberal Democrat Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for Yorkshire and the Humber. Wallis was first elected in 1999 and re-elected in 2004 and in 2009.[2] She resigned her seat in January 2012 and went on to pursue academic, legal and mediation-related activities.

On 6 September 2013, Wallis was elected President of the European Law Institute, an independent non-profit organisation established to initiate, conduct and facilitate research, make recommendations and provide practical guidance in the field of European legal development with a goal of enhancing the European legal integration.[3] She was re-elected in 2015 for a second term, which lasted until 2017.

Wallis contested Haltemprice and Howden as a Yorkshire Party candidate in the 2015 and 2017 UK General Elections[4] and subsequently left that party in March 2019.[5]

She later joined Change UK[6] and was selected as the lead candidate for Yorkshire and the Humber at the 2019 European Parliament elections.[7][8]

  1. ^ "Who's Who: Diana Wallis MEP". Liberal Democrats website. Archived from the original on 30 September 2007. Retrieved 10 June 2008.
  2. ^ "European Parliamentary Election Thursday 4th June 2009 Yorkshire and The Humber Region Statement of Parties Nominated" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 9 January 2010. Retrieved 18 May 2009.
  3. ^ "ELI Website - Press release". Archived from the original on 15 October 2013. Retrieved 15 October 2013.
  4. ^ "Haltemprice & Howden". 9 June 2017. Retrieved 14 August 2017.
  5. ^ Wallis, Diana (25 March 2019). "Sorry to say I'm out of the Yorkshire Party too; politics is broken!https://twitter.com/Yorkshireguidon/status/1110277267446513665 …". @dianapwallis. Retrieved 30 April 2019.
  6. ^ "Rachel Johnson: Standing for Change UK not a vote against Boris". www.shropshirestar.com. 23 April 2019.
  7. ^ Young, Angus (24 April 2019). "Hull-based politician to stand for Change UK in Euro elections". Hull Daily Mail. Retrieved 26 April 2019.
  8. ^ "European Election Candidates: Change UK". LBC. Retrieved 26 April 2019.