John Flack

Life and career Flack attended Abbs Cross High School in Hornchurch. He rose from trainee to junior partner of a firm of chartered surveyors, before directing various property companies.

He also served as a magistrate, initially the youngest in Essex when appointed in 1988. He served for 21 years before transferring to the supplemental list in 2009, in order that he could stand for the European Parliament and to avoid any perception of conflict of interest.

Political career

Flack contested the European Parliament constituency of Northumbria in the 1994 election and London in the 1999 election.

Flack sat on the European Parliament's Committee on Regional Development (REGI). He served as the Regional Development Spokesman for the Conservative Party. He was also a substitute member of the Parliament's Committee on Fisheries (PECH).

Flack is an active animal welfare campaigner, and has co-hosted a roundtable event on fur labelling problems in the EU market. He was voted as a Vice President of the European Parliament's Animal Welfare Intergroup. In 2019 he was appointed as a Patron of the Conservative Animal Welfare Foundation in acknowledgement of his commitment to animal welfare reform.