Background
Howitt was born in Reading, Berkshire.
Member of the European Parliament politician
Howitt was born in Reading, Berkshire.
He graduated with a Bachelor degree in Politics, Philosophy and Economics from Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford in 1982 and has a Postgraduate Diploma in Management Studies from the University of Hertfordshire.
He was brought up in a single-parent family, in a council house, and went to a comprehensive school. After leaving university, he worked for four years in the voluntary sector and eight years for a disability organisation. Howitt served as a councillor on Harlow District Council from 1983 to 1995, including three years as Leader of the council.
He was the Labour Party candidate in Billericay in the 1987 general election.
Howitt was elected as a Member of the European Parliament to the European Parliament, representing the Essex South constituency, and has served for the East of England constituency since 1999. Howitt helped to negotiate a £22 million European Union fund to help finance food banks in the United Kingdom but the United Kingdom government refused to accept the funds.
Howlett stated:
lieutenant is very sad that our government is opposing this much-needed help for foodbanks on the basis that it is a national responsibility, when in reality it has no intention of providing the help itself. The only conclusion is that Conservative anti-European ideology is being put before the needs of the most destitute and deprived in our society.
He has been a member of the European Parliament since 1994. Richard Howitt has been a member of the Labour Party"s National Policy Forum since 1994.