Mary Honeyball

Mary Honeyball
Mary Honeyball in Strasbourg, 2014
Member of the European Parliament
for London
In office
17 February 2000 – 1 July 2019[1][2]
Preceded byPauline Green
Succeeded byLuisa Porritt
Personal details
Born (1952-11-12) 12 November 1952 (age 71)
Weymouth, Dorset, United Kingdom
Political partyLabour
Alma materSomerville College, Oxford
ProfessionPublic administration
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Mary Hilda Rosamund Honeyball[3] (born 12 November 1952 in Weymouth, Dorset) is a former British Labour Party politician. She was a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for London from 2000 to 2019. Seventh on Labour's 1999 list, she had not been elected in the 1999 European Parliament election, but replaced Pauline Green, who resigned as an MEP in November 1999. Honeyball was subsequently elected to the European Parliament in 2004, 2009, and 2014. She did not stand for re-election in 2019, and resigned from the Labour Party shortly after voting closed in the UK.[4] Honeyball rejoined the Labour Party during 2021.

  1. ^ "Key dates ahead". European Parliament. 20 May 2017. Retrieved 28 May 2019.
  2. ^ "Key dates ahead". BBC News. 22 May 2017. Retrieved 28 May 2019.
  3. ^ "European Parliamentary Election, London Region, 10th June 2004: Notice of result" (PDF). Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames. 13 June 2004. Archived from the original (PDF) on 9 June 2011. Retrieved 4 March 2010.
  4. ^ Sugarman, Daniel (24 May 2019). "Mary Honeyball, a Labour MEP for 19 years, quits party over "shameful" inaction on anti-Semitism". The Jewish Chronicle. Retrieved 24 May 2019.