Barry Seal is a British Labour Party

Labour Party (UK)

The Labour Party is a centre-left democratic socialist party in the United Kingdom. It surpassed the Liberal Party in general elections during the early 1920s, forming minority governments under Ramsay MacDonald in 1924 and 1929-1931. The party was in a wartime coalition from 1940 to 1945, after...

 politician. He was Member of the European Parliament

Member of the European Parliament

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 (MEP) for the single-member seat of Yorkshire West

Yorkshire West (European Parliament constituency)

Yorkshire West was a European Parliament constituency covering the western parts West Yorkshire in England, including Bradford and Halifax.Prior to its uniform adoption of proportional representation in 1999, the United Kingdom used first-past-the-post for the European elections in England,...

 from 1979 to 1999. He stood unsuccessfully for election to the new multi-member seat of Yorkshire and the Humber

Yorkshire and the Humber (European Parliament constituency)

Yorkshire and the Humber is a constituency of the European Parliament. It currently elects 6 MEPs using the d'Hondt method of party-list proportional representation.- Boundaries :...

 in the 1999 European elections.

In 2002 he became Chairman of Kirklees Primary Care NHS trust

NHS Trust

A National Health Service trust provides services on behalf of the National Health Service in England and NHS Wales.The trusts are not trusts in the legal sense but are in effect public sector corporations. Each trust is headed by a board consisting of executive and non-executive directors, and is...

 and in 2007 became Chairman of Bradford District Care Trust.