Andrew Duff

Who is Andrew Duff?

Andrew Nicholas Duff OBE is a Liberal Democrat politician, president of the Union of European Federalists, and a former Member of the European Parliament for the East of England region of the UK. He was educated at Sherborne School and St John's College, Cambridge.

He initially stood in the 1984 European Parliament election, finishing third with 22.5% of the vote. In the 1989 election he polled 8% of the vote, coming fourth, then in the 1994 election he came third with 20%. The constituencies were largely representing Cambridgeshire and at times parts of Bedfordshire. With the electoral change to regional party-list proportional representation, he was first elected in the 1999 European Parliament election when the Liberal Democrats won 12% of the regional vote, and retained his seat in the 2004 and 2009 elections when they won 14% of the regional vote, but lost his seat in 2014 when his party took less than 7% in the region.

Since October 2008 Andrew Duff is president of the Union of European Federalists. On 15 September 2010 Duff together with UEF initiated the Spinelli Group, which was founded to reinvigorate the strive for federalisation of the European Union.