Jo Swinson
Joanne Kate "Jo" Swinson CBE (born February 5, 1980 in Glasgow ) is a Scottish politician of the Liberal Democrats . She was party leader of the Liberal Democrats from July to December 2019.
Life
Swinson grew up in the East Dunbartonshire region in a Glasgow middle class family. She attended Douglas Academy in Milngavie , Scotland, and the London School of Economics , where she studied management. She later worked in the marketing and communications industry in the north of England. Swinson has been married to her party colleague Duncan Hames since 2011 . In 2013 the couple had their first child, a son. Another child was born in 2018.
Political career
Swinson joined the Liberal Democrats at the age of 17. From 1998 to 1999 she served as secretary of the youth organization of the Liberal Democrats. In the 2001 general election she ran for the first time to national elections. She applied for the lower house of Kingston upon Hull East , which she clearly missed as runner-up against the Labor candidate John Prescott . Swinson also applied for a seat in the Scottish Parliament in the Scottish parliamentary elections in 2003 . In her constituency of Strathkelvin and Bearsden , she received only the third highest percentage of votes.
In the 2005 general election , she ran for the lower house of her home constituency, East Dunbartonshire , which was reintroduced as part of the constituency revision for these elections. Swinson won the seat with 41.8% and subsequently moved into the British House of Commons for the first time . During the first four years of her tenure, she was the youngest Member of Parliament and the first to be born in the 1980s. In parliament Swinson served until 2006 as a party spokeswoman for culture, media and sport as well as a Whip . In the shadow cabinet of the Liberal Democrats, she was temporarily designated as Scotland Minister . In 2007 it caused a sensation with a draft law aimed at significantly reducing packaging waste. In 2007 she was initially junior minister for women and equality and then slated for such a position in the Foreign Ministry.
In the 2010 general election, Swinson defended her lower house. Until 2012, she initially held a position as Parliamentary Private Secretary under the Minister for Economic Affairs, Vince Cable . She then briefly moved to such a position under Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg . Swinson then rose to serve as Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State in the Department of Commerce and the Department of Culture for Women and Equality. As a result of the SNP's massive increase in votes in the 2015 general election , it lost its lower house, which the SNP candidate John Nicolson was able to win. In the early general election in 2017 , however, she was able to win back the seat of East Dunbartonshire.
When the previous party leader of the Liberal Democrats Vince Cable announced his resignation in May 2019, she applied for his post. Against the only opposing candidate Ed Davey she prevailed in a member survey with 47,997 votes to 28,021. As chairwoman she wanted to act against Brexit above all; At the same time, she was faced with the task of keeping the party at the high polls.
Prior to the 2019 general election , Swinson positioned the Liberal Democrats as the Remain party. Swinson promised to stop Brexit without a second referendum in the event of an election victory. The party got a total of only 11 seats, Swinson lost her constituency of East Dunbartonshire to the SNP candidate Amy Callaghan . Then she announced her resignation as party leader. The leadership of the Liberal Democrats was taken over by Vice President Ed Davey and Party President Sal Brinton together.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d http://news.bbc.co.uk/democracylive/hi/representatives/profiles/31661.stm ( Memento from March 23, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Biographical information ( Memento of the original from May 19, 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.
- ↑ a b 39-year-old Scottish woman: British anti-Brexit party LibDem elects Jo Swinson as the new party leader. Retrieved July 22, 2019 .
- ↑ Against Boris and against Brexit faz.net of September 9, 2019
- ↑ The Sun: Hames Who? Who is Jo Swinson's husband Duncan Hames? , November 5, 2019.
- ↑ Herald Scotland: Scots MP Jo Swinson gives birth to baby boy , December 24, 2013.
- ↑ Guardian: Commons leader says sorry to Jo Swinson for pairing pact 'error', July 28, 2018.
- ^ Results of the 2001 general election
- ↑ Information from the Scottish Parliament
- ↑ Results of the general election 2005 ( Memento from September 24, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ New Statesman: 20 under 40: Jo Swinson , September 22, 2011.
- ↑ official LibDems page. May 31, 2019, accessed on July 22, 2019 .
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ Results of the general election 2015
- ↑ Results of the 2017 general election . ( bbc.com [accessed July 22, 2019]).
- ↑ Emilio Casalicchio: Jo Swinson steps down as UK Lib Dem leader. In: Politico . December 13, 2019, accessed December 13, 2019 .
- ↑ Leader of the Liberals loses seat in the lower house and resigns. Spiegel Online , December 13, 2019, accessed on the same day.
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Swinson, Jo |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Swinson, Joanne Kate |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Scottish politician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 5th February 1980 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | East Dunbartonshire |