Iain McKenzie
Iain McKenzie (* 1959 in Greenock ) is a Scottish politician of the Labor Party .
Life
McKenzie was born in 1959 at Rankin Hospital in Greenock and has always lived in the Inverclyde area . He attended Lady Alice Primary School , Greenock High School and Highlanders Academy . He began an apprenticeship as a truck mechanic and then worked for IBM for 28 years , where he rose in the purchasing department. In 2010 McKenzie switched to the Wise Group . He is married and has two sons.
Political career
In 2003 McKenzie was elected to the Inverclyde Regional Council for the Labor Party . From 2007 he acted as Deputy Council President. After McKenzie's party colleague David Cairns , who represented the Inverclyde constituency since its inception in 2005 in the House of Commons , passed away in 2011, by-elections were required in the constituency. The Labor Party sent McKenzie into the running as Cairns' successor. On election day McKenzie won the majority with 53.8% and subsequently moved into the House of Commons for the first time. There he took from October of the same year the position of Parliamentary Private Secretary (PPS) from Margaret Curran , which was provided in the shadow cabinet of the Labor Party as Scotland Minister . A year later, he served as the PPS for Shadow Secretary of Defense Vernon Coaker . After the SNP gained massive votes in the following general election in 2015 , McKenzie was unable to prevail against the SNP candidate Ronnie Cowan and left the House of Commons after four years.
Individual evidence
- ^ Iain McKenzie in Hansard (English)
- ↑ a b http://www.iainmckenziemp.co.uk/about-iain ( Memento from December 26, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ BBC News: Labor wins Inverclyde by-election with lower majority , July 1, 2011.
- ↑ Results of the general election 2015
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | McKenzie, Iain |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Scottish Labor Party politician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1959 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Greenock |