Ian Murray (politician, 1976)
Ian Murray (born August 10, 1976 in Edinburgh ) is a Scottish politician of the Scottish Labor Party .
Life
Murray was born in 1976 as the son of a cooper in the south-west of Edinburgh's Wester Hailes district. He attended Dumbryden Primary School and the Wester Hailes Education Center . Murray studied social policy and law at the University of Edinburgh . During his student days he worked as a delivery driver and then set up his own delivery service. After graduating, Murray worked in the media sector. He eventually started his own event management company . From 2005 he ran various restaurants together with his partner.
Political career
In the run-up to the 2001 general election, Murray was involved in the campaign organization in the Edinburgh Pentlands constituency . In 2003 he was elected to the Edinburgh Regional Council for the Labor Party. Until his resignation in 2010, he represented the districts of Alnwickhill and Liberton / Gilmerton .
After his party colleague Nigel Griffiths , who had represented the constituency of Edinburgh South in the British House of Commons since 1987 , did not run for the 2010 general election, Murray was appointed as his successor. On election day he received almost the largest share of the vote before the Liberal Democrat Fred Mackintosh and subsequently moved into the House of Commons for the first time. There he served as Parliamentary Private Secretary under Ivan Lewis until 2011 . He was also a member of the Business, Innovation and Skills Committee , the Environmental Audit Committee and the Committee on Arms Export Controls . In the Labor Party's shadow cabinet , Murray took up a junior ministerial position for Business, Innovation and Skills from October 2011 .
Murray defended his mandate in the British general election in 2015 and is the only Scottish Labor MP and only one of three Scottish MPs who do not belong to the SNP after the SNP's massive votes in these elections. In the Labor shadow cabinet, he has since been designated as Minister of Scotland . On June 26, 2016, Murray resigned from the shadow cabinet. In the 2017 early general election , Murray maintained his mandate.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Biographical information ( memento of the original from October 6, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Results of the 2010 general election ( Memento of the original from May 2, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ BBC: Democracy Live: Ian Murray.
- ↑ a b Information from the British Parliament
- ↑ a b Results of the general election 2015
- ^ Rajeev Syal, Frances Perraudin: Shadow cabinet resignations: who has gone and who is staying. The Guardian , June 26, 2016, accessed June 26, 2016 .
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Murray, Ian |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Scottish politician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 10, 1976 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Edinburgh |