Julia REID
Julia REID
United Kingdom

Date of birth : , London

8th parliamentary term Julia REID

Political groups

  • 01-07-2014 / 15-10-2014 : Europe of Freedom and Direct Democracy Group - Member
  • 16-10-2014 / 19-10-2014 : Non-attached Members
  • 20-10-2014 / 01-07-2019 : Europe of Freedom and Direct Democracy Group - Member

National parties

  • 01-07-2014 / 07-12-2018 : United Kingdom Independence Party (United Kingdom)
  • 08-12-2018 / 11-02-2019 : Independent (United Kingdom)
  • 12-02-2019 / 01-07-2019 : The Brexit Party (United Kingdom)

Member

  • 01-07-2014 / 18-01-2017 : Committee on Regional Development
  • 19-01-2017 / 01-07-2019 : Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety

Substitute

  • 01-07-2014 / 18-01-2017 : Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety
  • 21-01-2016 / 04-04-2017 : Committee of Inquiry into Emission Measurements in the Automotive Sector
  • 19-01-2017 / 01-07-2019 : Committee on Regional Development
  • 08-02-2018 / 12-12-2018 : Special Committee on the Union’s authorisation procedure for pesticides

Other parliamentary activities

Written explanations of vote

Members can submit a written explanation of their vote in plenary. Rule 194

Listing the third countries whose nationals must be in possession of visas when crossing the external borders and those whose nationals are exempt from that requirement, as regards the UK's withdrawal from the EU (A8-0047/2019 - Sergei Stanishev)

04-04-2019

I abstained on this legislative report. Whilst I fully support – and want – visa-free access to the EU for UK nationals after we withdraw from the EU, alterations to the text by the European Council made this report impossible to support. The reason is that, without a mandate from Parliament, the Council added text to state that Gibraltar is a ʻcolonyʼ of the British Crown. This is not only factually incorrect, as Gibraltar is designated as a British Overseas Territory, but also highly insulting to its people, who have, in two referendums, overwhelmingly voted to remain British. I also strongly objected to the procedures employed by the institutions to instigate this change, which included unjustly removing a British rapporteur from the report and refusing to allow a full debate or amendments to be tabled. For these reasons, and whilst I would have liked to support the report, I abstained.

Guidelines for the employment policies of the Member States (A8-0177/2019 - Miroslavs Mitrofanovs)

04-04-2019

. ‒ I voted against this legislation. Employment policies should be left entirely to the Member States. There is no need for EU involvement and this is a gross violation of the internal policies of the Member States.

European Maritime and Fisheries Fund (A8-0176/2019 - Gabriel Mato)

04-04-2019

. ‒ We oppose this legislation because it funds the destructive EU common fisheries policy into the next decade.

Declarations

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