Rory Palmer

Rory Palmer
Palmer in 2014
Member of the European Parliament
for the East Midlands
In office
3 October 2017 – 31 January 2020
Preceded byGlenis Willmott
Succeeded byOffice abolished
Deputy Mayor of Leicester
In office
10 May 2011 – 3 October 2017
MayorPeter Soulsby
Preceded byOffice established
Succeeded byAdam Clarke
Member of Leicester City Council
for Eyres Monsell
In office
3 May 2007 – 3 October 2017
Succeeded byElaine Pantling
Personal details
Born (1981-11-19) 19 November 1981 (age 43)
Worksop, Nottinghamshire, England
Political partyLabour
EducationUniversity of York (BA)

Rory Palmer (born 19 November 1981) is a British politician who served as a Member of the European Parliament for the East Midlands from 2017 to 2020. A member of the Labour Party, he was also the Labour candidate in the 2024 Leicestershire Police and Crime Commissioner election.

Early life and career

Palmer was born on born 19 November 1981.[1] He attended Hartland School in Worksop, Nottinghamshire. He studied Social Policy at the University of York from 2000 to 2003.[2]

Palmer briefly worked for the Institute for Public Policy Research as a research assistant, before working for nearly five years as a parliamentary assistant to the Labour MPs John Mann and Peter Soulsby.[3] Having first been elected for the Labour Party as a councillor for the Eyres Monsell ward of Leicester City Council in May 2007, he became one of the council's deputy mayors in May 2011.[4][5]

Palmer worked as senior policy, public affairs and campaigns manager at the Guide Dogs for the Blind Association.[6] After leaving the European Parliament, he became network lead for the Trussell Trust East Midlands.[7]

Political career

In the 2010 general election, he unsuccessfully stood as the Labour Party candidate in the Bosworth constituency in Leicestershire.[8] In the 2014 European Parliament election, he was second on the Labour party list in the East Midlands constituency[9] but was not elected. After the Labour MEP Glenis Willmott announced in July 2017 that she would stand down in October of that year, Palmer succeeded her and became an MEP.[10] He remained in this role, being elected in his own right at the 2019 election, until the United Kingdom's withdrawal from the EU on 31 January 2020.[11]

Palmer is a member of the Fabian Society and spent two years on the Executive Committee of the Society from 2019 to 2021.[6] In the 2024 England and Wales police and crime commissioner elections, Palmer was Labour's candidate for Leicestershire, coming second.[12]

References

  1. ^ Companies House
  2. ^ "Rory Palmer". Linkedin. Retrieved 10 March 2021.
  3. ^ "Former MEP takes charity role". PR Week. Retrieved 21 February 2021.
  4. ^ "Councillor Rory Palmer". Retrieved 6 July 2017.
  5. ^ "Leicester mayor Sir Peter Soulsby announces cabinet". BBC News. 9 May 2011. Retrieved 30 April 2024.
  6. ^ a b "East Midlands Young Fabians meet Rory Palmer". Young Fabians. Retrieved 7 March 2024.
  7. ^ Honeycombe-Foster, Matt (23 June 2022). "London Influence: Party poopers - Lewis lobbying - Common people". Politico. Retrieved 7 March 2024.
  8. ^ "Election Data 2010". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 26 July 2013. Retrieved 17 October 2015.
  9. ^ Cook, David (24 April 2014). "Statement of Persons Nominated". Kettering Borough Council. Retrieved 3 May 2014.
  10. ^ Fagan, Ciaran (5 July 2017). "Leicester Deputy Mayor Rory Palmer to become an MEP". Leicester Mercury. Retrieved 6 July 2017.
  11. ^ "Rory Palmer". European Parliament. Retrieved 7 October 2017.
  12. ^ Richardson, Hannah (28 June 2023). "Rory Palmer pledges crackdown on knife crime in bid for top police job". Leicester Mercury. Retrieved 7 March 2024.


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