It was a comment condemned on Twitter by Labour MEP Richard Howitt, as "shameful".

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Testimony from people in the area assembled by Mr Howitt led to new accusations last February.

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Engineer Ian Howitt's firm has produced dozens of components for Tornado, including the frames for the tender.

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Dr Howitt-Wilson said he fully accepted that Mrs Pretty was not being pressurised into ending her own life.

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"I feel like I have a coach with me, telling me I'm on pace or off pace, " Howitt says.

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One of the standouts was a manager at my first job, Matt Howitt.

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British Labour MEP Richard Howitt questioned that if Mr Sarkozy was to lose the forthcoming presidential election in France, "there could be a fairer hearing for Turkey".

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Labour Euro MP Richard Howitt, who flew home with the group, said they had been "let down" by the Greek nation and fallen victim to pride and not common sense.

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He was asked about the so-called bedroom tax, about how to get young people back to work, if he supported the plans to reopen the Oxford to Cambridge rail line and improve the A14 - he does - and what he thought of plans by the EU to ban neonicotinoid pesticides - he had to get his Labour MEP Richard Howitt to answer that one.

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