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Just as you elect councillors to deal with local issues and MPs to deal with national issues, so you elect Members of the European Parliament to deal with European issues.
Your MEP is your voice in Brussels. You don't need to go through the Foreign Office diplomats to be represented in the European Union: you have your own representative for your own area.
MEPs represent regional constituencies. Yorkshire and the Humber, for instance, elects six MEPs. Elections are by proportional representation, with each party putting up a team of candidates.
An MEP's main task is to vote on European legislation, just as MPs in the House of Commons vote on national legislation. European legislation is binding across the whole of the European Union.
Printable leaflet
Richard's 2-page leaflet, What on earth does an MEP do?, is available to download, save and print.
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Your local Labour MEPs
Richard is one of two Labour MEPs elected to represent Yorkshire and the Humber.
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