Michael John Welsh MBE[1] (born 22 May 1942) is a British Conservative Party politician.
At the 1979 European Parliament elections, Welsh fought and won the Lancashire Central seat for the Conservative Party.
In 1981 he acted as rapporteur for the committee on External Economic Arrangements on the renewal of the Multi Fibre Agreement, and argued that the agreement should be extended for ten years, during which export levels should be fixed; he urged nations developing their textile industries not to force the EEC to put in protectionist measures.
Welsh supported the United Kingdom adopting the Euro as its currency, and was an active participant in the Conservatives' intra-party debate on European policy in the 1990s.
He has supported retaining a two-tier approach to local government rather than allowing larger councils to become unitary authorities.