David McLetchie

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David McLetchie (2011)

David McLetchie (born August 6, 1952 in Edinburgh , Scotland , † August 12, 2013 there ) was a British politician and member of the Conservative Party .

Life

McLetchie attended Leith Academy Primary School and George Heriot's School . He then went to Edinburgh University and successfully completed his law degree in 1974. From 1976 he was a licensed solicitor . McLetchie was married twice and had one adult son. He was a supporter of the Heart of Midlothian football club .

Earlier political career

McLetchie was already active with the Young Conservatives from 1968. For the first time he ran in the 1979 general election to national elections. In his constituency of Edinburgh Central , however, he received only the second highest number of votes and thus missed entry into the British House of Commons . In the following years McLetchie held various positions within the Conservative Party and was chairman of the Scottish Conservative and Unionist Association from 1994 to 1997, and from 1999 to 2005 party leader of the Conservatives.

Scottish Parliament until 2005

In the first Scottish general election in 1999, McLetchie served as his party's campaign manager . He himself ran in the Edinburgh Pentlands constituency , but only achieved the second highest number of votes behind Labor candidate Iain Gray . Since McLetchie was also on the regional electoral list of the Conservatives for the electoral region Lothians , he moved as one of seven regional candidates in the newly created Scottish Parliament as a result of the election results . In the following general election , he won the direct mandate of Edinburgh Pentlands.

Resignation and further political career

In 2005 McLetchie resigned as party leader. The trigger was newspaper reports about McLetchie's high taxi bills at the expense of the state treasury, which, however, resulted in part from non-parliamentary activities. McLetchie accumulated bills of around £ 11,500 over a five-year period. The revelatory journalist Paul Hutcheon won the Scottish Press Awards for his reports , some of which were referred to as Taxigate , as both best political journalist and best journalist. Nevertheless, McLetchie defended his direct mandate in the 2007 parliamentary elections in the Edinburgh Pentlands constituency and was able to increase his share of the vote by around 0.4%. Four years later he lost his direct mandate to the SNP politician Gordon MacDonald , but retained a seat in parliament as a representative of the Lothian electoral region.

As of 2011, McLetchie was the whip of the Conservative faction in Parliament. He was also the group's spokesman for judicial and constitutional issues.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Former Scottish Conservative leader David McLetchie dies aged 61
  2. ↑ a b Information from the Scottish Parliament ( Memento of the original from July 17, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.scottish.parliament.uk
  3. ↑ a b c d e f Biographical information ( Memento from August 25, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
  4. ^ Results of the 1979 parliamentary elections
  5. ↑ Results of the general election 1999 on the Scottish Parliament website
  6. ↑ Results of the general election 1999 on the Scottish Parliament website
  7. ^ Results of the general election 2003 on the Scottish Parliament website
  8. ↑ BBC News: McLetchie resigns as Tory leader
  9. ↑ Hamish Mackay: Hutcheon leads winners at Scottish Press Awards ( Memento from March 6, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
  10. ↑ Results of the 2007 general election on the Scottish Parliament website
  11. ↑ Results of the 2011 general election on the Scottish Parliament website
  12. ↑ Results of the 2011 general election on the Scottish Parliament website
personal data
SURNAME McLetchie, David
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Scottish politician
DATE OF BIRTH August 6, 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH Edinburgh
DATE OF DEATH August 12, 2013
Place of death Edinburgh