Michael Tappin
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Michael Tappin was nominated as the Labour Party candidate in the 1994 European Parliamentary Elections for the seat of Staffordshire West and Congleton. He subsequently and narrowly won the seat[1], defeating Conservative Party sitting Member of the European Parliament Anthony Brown. The other two candidates for the seat represented Liberal Democrats and Natural Law parties.
Unusually, all parties claimed to be the 'opposition' in the seat - Labour and Lib Dems because of boundary changes, Conservatives because they were in a minority in the European Parliament.
Mr Tappin was supported in his campaign by a talented team of young Labour members. The 'inner core' of this team, as one local councillor put it, made the John F. Kennedy campaign look like aged amateurs.
Mr Tappin lost his seat under the new "list system" in 1999, the first of many hapless electoral disasters. An author and academic at Keele University, Mr Tappin has continued his involvement in politics and, in 2007, became Leader of the Labour group on Stoke-on-Trent City Council.[2]although in the recent local elections, Mike Tappin,lost his seat.
[edit] References
- ^ http://www.europarl.europa.eu/members/archive/term4/view.do?language=EN&id=2032 Third Term of the European Parliament, European Parliament Website Archives
- ^ Keele University : American Studies
