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In 2006 he served on the Independent Review of the governance of European Football, set up by several national governments and UEFA and chaired by the former Portuguese Deputy Prime Minister Jose Luis Arnaut. Corbett chaired the sub-group on political aspects. He has maintained an interest in the governance of football ever since, taking up a number of issues with UEFA.
He held a number of offices in the Labour Party. As well as being Deputy Leader of the Labour MEPs (EPLP), he was on the Regional Board (Yorkshire) and the National Policy Forum. He was Chair of the Labour Movement for Europe MEP group and elected national chair in 2009 succeeding Mary Creagh MP.
Richard Corbett is also the co-author of an eponymous academic textbook on the European Parliament (now the standard reference book on it across Europe) and several other publications (see below). He was the first MEP from any country to have a blog.
Corbett starred in the docudrama film “Do it like a European?” which won a prize at the international Winton Film Contest.
Richard Corbett lives in Saltaire, Yorkshire, a village which enjoys UNESCO World Heritage status (which Corbett helped campaign for) He had his constituency office in Leeds, where he shared premises with Hilary Benn MP.
He speaks English, French, German and Dutch.
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