David Whitton

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David Whitton is a Scottish politician and a member of the Labor Party .

Life

Whitton attended Morgan Academy in Dundee and then worked for the publishing house D. C. Thomson . He then moved to the Fife Free Press and the Evening Express in Aberdeen . After three years with Scotsman , Whitton first went to the Daily Record magazine and then worked for Scottish Television from 1986 to 1996 . There he took on various tasks, including as a correspondent at the House of Commons , reporter and news producer. Whitton is married and is a father and grandfather of two.

Political career

In the late 1990s, Whitton became the personal advisor and press secretary to the First Minister , Donald Dewar . On 11 October 2000 announced Whitton the nation Dewars death and held at his funeral grave speech .

In the Scottish general election in 2007 Whitton ran for the first time to national elections. He ran for the direct mandate of the constituency Strathkelvin and Bearsden , which his party colleague Brian Fitzpatrick had lost to the independent candidate Jean Turner in the previous elections . He was able to win the mandate for himself and moved into the Scottish Parliament for the first time . In the Labor Party's shadow cabinet, Whitton was designated Secretary of State for Finance, Sustainable Growth and Skills and also served as Party's deputy spokesman for these portfolios. In the parliamentary elections in 2011 , he lost his mandate to the SNP candidate Fiona McLeod and resigned from parliament.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Information from the Labor Party ( Memento of May 6, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ↑ Entry on alba.org.uk ( Memento from October 11, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ↑ BBC News: David Whitton's reading
  4. ↑ Results of the 2007 general election on the Scottish Parliament website
  5. ↑ Information from the Scottish Parliament
  6. ↑ Page no longer available , search in web archives: information on scottishpolitics.org@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.scottishpolitics.org
  7. ↑ Results of the 2011 general election on the Scottish Parliament website
personal data
SURNAME Whitton, David
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Scottish politician
DATE OF BIRTH 20th century