Seb Dance
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Seb Dance MEP |
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Member of the European Parliament for London |
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Assumed office 1 July 2014 |
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| Preceded by | Sarah Ludford |
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| Born | Roehampton, United Kingdom |
| Nationality | British |
| Political party | Labour |
| Domestic partner | Spencer Livermore, Baron Livermore |
| Alma mater | University of Manchester |
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Official website europarl...SEB DANCE |
Sebastian 'Seb' Dance (born December 1981) is a British politician who currently serves as a Member of the European Parliament for the London region for the Labour Party. He was elected in 2014. He sits on the European Parliament Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety (ENVI) and the European Parliament Committee on Development (DEVE).
He is Co-Ordinator (leader and spokesperson) for the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats (S&D) Group in the European Parliament's Committee of Inquiry into Emission Measurements in the Automotive Sector (EMIS), which was set up in to develop recommendations for EU institutions and Member States in response to the Volkswagen emissions scandal.
Dance was born in Roehampton, in the London Borough of Wandsworth.
He studied at the University of Manchester. Following his studies, he was a sabbatical officer at the Manchester Student Union, leading campaigns and overseeing student participation in the merger between the Victoria University of Manchester and the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology.
He is married to Spencer Livermore, Baron Livermore who is a British Labour Party life peer.
Prior to becoming an MEP, Dance worked for the development charity ActionAid UK, working on campaigns for structural changes to alleviate poverty and hunger around the world. He worked on a long-running campaign against tax avoidance by large multi-national companies.
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