EURO MP Terry Wynn is planning to step down later this year.
The North-west MEP has been a Euro politician since June, 1989, when he was elected for the Merseyside East constituency as the Labour Party candidate.
He said "I know that it is time for me to go. There are other things I want to do. There are a lot of rumours circulating as to what I will be doing, but I can honestly say, that there is nothing planned.
"I do, however, still intend fighting the European cause and getting a positive message to those who will listen that the EU is good for the UK and the North-west region in particular."
Mr Wynn was chairman of the Budgets Committee from 1999 to 2004, which oversees the £70bn EU Budget and presently sits as a full member on the Agriculture Committee and the Budgetary Control Committee.
Mr Wynn is also a methodist local preacher and author of a book "Onward Christian Socialist." He is writing another book about faith and politics.
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