Philip Bradbourn
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Philip Bradbourn OBE MEP | |
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Member of the European Parliament for West Midlands | |
In office 1999 – 19 December 2014 | |
Succeeded by | Daniel Dalton |
Personal details | |
Born | 9 August 1951 Tipton, Staffordshire, England |
Died | 19 December 2014 Sutton Coldfield, England | (aged 63)
Political party | Conservative |
Residence | United Kingdom |
Philip Charles Bradbourn,
Early and personal life
Born in
Political career
Bradbourn was a parliamentary candidate for
After his death, Bradbourn was succeeded by former cricketer Daniel Dalton.[1]
Expenses claims
Bradbourn pursued a complaint against the News of the World with the Press Complaints Commission. The News of the World then issued this apology "Contrary to the claim in our article "EU blows millions on fact finding freebies for MEPs" (18 May 2008), Philip Bradbourn MEP did not visit Table Mountain or a wine estate during a South Africa trip. We apologise for any embarrassment."[2]
Smoking incident
On 12 September 2007, an article appeared in The Times referring to an incident which occurred in the European Parliament (a non-smoking building), where Bradbourn was found smoking in a corridor. When it was pointed out to him that he was not permitted to smoke inside the Parliament, he reportedly responded "I'm a member. I make the rules." Bradbourn, however, denied this, saying that his exact words were, "Elected members make the rules in Parliament, not staff."[3]
Birmingham confusion
In 2008 it was discovered that the website of the West Midlands Conservative MEPs showed a photo of Birmingham, Alabama instead of Birmingham, England.[4][5]
Death and funeral
Bradbourn died of
As Bradbourn died without family, his former political chief of staff Alastair Little was legally declared his next-of-kin so that he could arrange Bradbourn's funeral. A funeral and cremation took place on 16 January 2015 at Bushbury crematorium, Wolverhampton.[6]
On 16 February Mr Little was advised by telephone that there had been an administration error at the Central England Co-operative Funeralcare
References
- ^ "Home - Daniel DALTON - MEPs - European Parliament". europarl.europa.eu.
- ^ Apology from News of the World Archived 9 June 2011 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "People: Hugo Rifkind". The Times. 12 September 2007. Retrieved 18 September 2007.
- ^ Walker, Jonathan (10 January 2008). "I got home town Blues". Birmingham Mail.
- ^ "Tories mix-up American Birmingham with ours - mirror.co.uk". Daily Mirror.
- ^ a b "'Wrong body' cremated at MEP funeral". BBC. 5 March 2015.