Brian Monteith

Brian Monteith (* 1957 ) is a Scottish politician and former member of the Conservative Party .

Political career

Monteith attended Parsons Green Primary School and Portobello Secondary School . He then studied at Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh . Monteith was one of the fiercest opponents of the introduction of the Scottish Parliament and was instrumental in the relevant Think Twice campaign of the Conservative Party before the nationwide Scottish referendum on September 11, 1997 . Despite his rejection, Monteith ran in the first elections to the Scottish Parliament in 1999 as a candidate for the constituency of Stirling . With 25.6%, however, after Annabelle Ewing from the SNP and the winner of the constituency, Sylvia Jackson from the Labor Party , it was only able to collect the third-highest share of the vote. On the basis of the election results, however, Monteith managed to enter the newly created parliament via the regional electoral list of Mid Scotland and Fife . In the parliamentary elections in 2003 , Monteith stood again for Stirling and was able to increase his share of the vote slightly, but still only achieved the second highest number of votes after Sylvia Jackson. Again he entered Parliament for Mid Scotland and Fife.

Leaving the Conservative Party

In the fall of 2005, it became known that Monteith recommended media representatives to demand the resignation of the chairman of the Scottish Conservative Party, David McLetchie , who had come under fire for the billing of high taxi bills. As a result, Monteith resigned from the Conservative Party and remained as a non-party member of parliament until the end of the legislative period. Monteith initially did not run for a later election, but was nominated by Nigel Farage as a candidate for the Brexit Party in the 2019 European elections and was elected. He then became a target of criticism after it was revealed that he lived in the south of France.

Web links

• Brian Monteith entry in the European Parliament 's database of MEPs

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Entry on alba.org.uk ( Memento from September 25, 2006 in the Internet Archive )
2. ↑ Results of the general election 1999 on the Scottish Parliament website
3. ↑ Results of the general election 1999 on the Scottish Parliament website
4. ^ Results of the general election 2003 on the Scottish Parliament website
5. ^ Results of the general election 2003 on the Scottish Parliament website
6. ↑ BBC News MSP takes blame for disloyalty , November 5, 2005.
7. ↑ Information on the pages of the Scottish Parliament
8. ↑ Entry on alba.org.uk ( Memento from June 6, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
9. ^ Scotsman: Monteith to stand down as MSP , Nov. 1, 2005
10. ↑ "'Height of hypocrisy': New Brexit Party MEP for northeast England lives in south of France" The Independent of May 26, 2019