stood down in 2012, unexpectedly and for personal reasons and i had been a junior minister de martin magines and one of the responsibilities i had was europe, so the party thought i knew a thing or two about europe and so the day. but i had no intentions of ever going to europe like to be an mep, so they asked me to take it on and again, one thing you persuaded to do it, so i goes over to europe and i thought, how am i going to make this place relevant to back here, so the first the you know i i became involved and it's a lot of jargon like rapitour and all that there you know it's a lead mep that's in charge the file, so the tobacco product directive was something that i got. my teethhon to is one of the lead meps involved in that file and it was how do i make, i always tried to develop a model, you know, how do i make europe relevant, so i bring you to europe and europe to you, and it was about the amount of people that was staying from and and took on big tobacco, the big tobacco industry, they hated me, um, i was literally i went after them and everything that they had said and the lies

stood down in 2012 unexpectedly and for personal reasons and i had been a junior minister de martin magines and one of the responsibilities i had. europe so the party thought i knew a thing or two about europe and so did i, but i had no intentions of ever going to europe like to be an mep, so they asked me to take it on and again, one thing and another persuaded to do it, so i goes over to europe and i thought, how am i going to make this place relevant to back here, so the first you know, i i became involved and it's a lot of jargon like rapitour and all that there, you know, it's a lead mep that's in charge the file so the... product directive was something that i got my teeth into as one of the lead meps involved in that file and it was how did i make? i always try to develop a model you know how do i make europe relevant so i bring you to europe and europe to you and it was about the amount of people that was staying from and the and took on big tobacco the big tobacco industry they hated me um i was literally i went after them and everything that they had said and the lies that they ha