Gary Titley

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Gary Titley (born January 19, 1950 in Salford, Greater Manchester) is a British politician, currently leader of the European Parliamentary Labour Party (EPLP) and Labour Party Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for the North West of England.

He is a former director of the West Midlands Enterprise Board and chaired the West Midlands Co-op Finance Company and the Black Country Co-op Development Agency. He was previously a member of the Labour Party's Plant Committee on electoral reform. Previously a teacher of modern languages.

Member of the subsequently abolished West Midlands County Council 1981-86.

He was first elected an MEP in June 1989. He became leader of the EPLP in 2002.

In January 2004 a letter bomb was sent to his office and opened by his wife, a member of his staff. It immediately started to smoke and then caught fire, but no one was injured.

As a result of his activities in the European Parliament he has been made a Commander of the White Rose of Finland, and holds the Austrian Gold Cross, and the Order of the Lithuanian Grand Duke Gediminas. He has announced that he will not stand for re-election in the 2009 European Parliament election.