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URLs responding — Richard Howitt's recorded URLs returned successful HTTP responses at the 2026-09-07 audit. This does not establish that campaign content survived.
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April site-wide text vs the 2026-09-21 homepage fetch of http://www.richardhowittmep.com: 6 sentences still present, 254 no longer found, 20 new. These are candidates for review, not proof a sentence was withdrawn.The April text covers the whole scraped site; the later text is one homepage fetch. A sentence can be missing from that homepage and still exist on another page. A missing sentence is not matched to a replacement.
The snapshot lists 5 of 254 sentences that were not found. The rest are counted, not quoted here.
Before · April 2025
Howitt was also substitute on many committees in his years at the European Parliament including the Committee on Development and Cooperation; Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs and Industrial Policy; Subcommittee on Human Rights; Committee on Employment and Social Affairs; the temporary Comm
Gap: no replacement sentence is matched. The April text covers the whole scraped site; the later text is one homepage fetch. A sentence can be missing from that homepage and still exist on another page.
Before · April 2025
Howitt helped drive European Union support for mandatory social, environmental and human rights reporting by business, starting from an initial resolution as long ago as 1999, and in the context of three successive reports on what has become widely known in business circles as the concept of Corpora
Gap: no replacement sentence is matched. The April text covers the whole scraped site; the later text is one homepage fetch. A sentence can be missing from that homepage and still exist on another page.
Before · April 2025
The Labour governments of 1964-70 and 1974-79 headed by Wilson and then James Callaghan were a period of great change: the Equal Pay Act of 1970, the permanent ending of the death penalty, decriminalisation of homosexuality, legislation to outlaw racial discrimination, and the establishment of the O
Gap: no replacement sentence is matched. The April text covers the whole scraped site; the later text is one homepage fetch. A sentence can be missing from that homepage and still exist on another page.
Before · April 2025
Outsider Jeremy Corbyn won the party’s leadership election by a landslide and the snap election of 2017 saw the party campaign with a manifesto laying out plans for a living wage of £10 an hour; scrapping of tuition fees; mass housebuilding; investment in public services; public ownership of rail, w
Gap: no replacement sentence is matched. The April text covers the whole scraped site; the later text is one homepage fetch. A sentence can be missing from that homepage and still exist on another page.
Before · April 2025
He held the titles of Co-President of the All-Party Disability Rights Group of MEPs and Spokesperson on Foreign Affairs for both British Labour and for the grouping of all centre-left MEPs in the European Parliament. read moreRichard Howitt got into politics because he had the aspiration to change t
Gap: no replacement sentence is matched. The April text covers the whole scraped site; the later text is one homepage fetch. A sentence can be missing from that homepage and still exist on another page.
New on the later homepage, not matched to a removed sentence
MEP Richard Howitt Toggle navigation Richard Howitt unofficial website Home Biography Labour Party MEP Campaigns IIRC Blog Richard Howitt Howitt was Rapporteur on Corporate Social Responsibility over four successive European Parliaments and represented European interests across international CSR ini This sentence is only on the later homepage. No April sentence is matched to it. 21 September 2026 · http://www.richardhowittmep.com
He held the titles of Co-President of the All-Party Disability Rights Group of MEPs and Spokesperson on Foreign Affairs for both British Labour and for the grouping of all centre-left MEPs in the European Parliament. read more Richard Howitt's Career Labour Party Richard Howitt got into politics bec This sentence is only on the later homepage. No April sentence is matched to it. 21 September 2026 · http://www.richardhowittmep.com
Read More It is no longer sufficient for the Company Executive to say "I didn't know." The concept of 'due diligence' says: "You should know." Richard Howitt MEP, Openining Speech at CSR Europe Conference Resignation from politics In October 2016 Howitt announced his resignation from the European Pa This sentence is only on the later homepage. No April sentence is matched to it. 21 September 2026 · http://www.richardhowittmep.com
The Labour Party has promised to tackle what it has termed the Hidden Epidemic of gambling addiction and wants to protect children from exposure to betting at an early age by barring betting firms sponsoring football shirts. read more UK Labour Party Future Plans For Brexit The Labour party line witeurope This sentence is only on the later homepage. No April sentence is matched to it. 21 September 2026 · http://www.richardhowittmep.com
A big supporter of the UK being a member state of the EU, Howitt appreciates the free movement across Europe and the fact that laws created in the European parliament have bought tangible benefits to people in Britain. read more Organizations Social Links Contact us For reference, additional informawelfare This sentence is only on the later homepage. No April sentence is matched to it. 21 September 2026 · http://www.richardhowittmep.com
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HTTP result: Responding (HTTP 200) at the 2026-09-07 audit
Candidate-name signal: surname matched in the response body (heuristic only)
Source evidence and excerpts
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Scrape excerpts — April 2025 · 8 shown
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Opening excerpt
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August 16, 2017
Currently studying Politics at the University of Essex
Labour Party supporter
Firmly believes in Richard…
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Founded in 2009, the International Integrated Reporting Council (IIRC) is a coalition of regulators, investors, companie…
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5,203
October 10, 2017
Currently studying Politics at the University of Essex
Labour Party supporter
Firmly believes in Richar…
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Howitt has always been keen to celebrate the continuing relevance of the trade union movement in the UK and overseas. Ba…
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The UK Labour Party grew out of a growing political interest from urban workers in the late 19th century, particularly m…
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As MEP, Howitt represented the East of England since 1994. He held the titles of Co-President of the All-Party Disabilit…
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This website is dedicated to Richard Howitt MEP.
Richard Stuart Howitt was born in Reading, Berkshire on 5 April 1961. H…
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This website is dedicated to Richard Howitt MEP.
Richard Stuart Howitt was born in Reading, Berkshire on 5 April 1961. H…
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