Malcolm Bruce

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Malcolm Gray Bruce, Baron Bruce of Bennachie PC (born November 17, 1944 in Birkenhead ) is a British politician of the Liberal Democrats .

Life

Bruce was born in Birkenhead, England in 1944. He attended private Wrekin College and then studied at St Andrews and Strathclyde Universities . Bruce subsequently worked as a journalist and publisher as well as a buyer for a pharmaceutical company. He is married and a father of five.

In 2006 Bruce was appointed to the Privy Council . Bruce was knighted as a Knight Bachelor in November 2012 .

Political career

Bruce entered the Liberal Party at the age of 17 . For the first time he ran in the British general election in October 1974 to elections at the national level. In his constituency of North Angus and Mearns , however, he received only the lowest share of the vote with 9.9%. In the 1979 elections , he missed the mandate against Conservative Russell Fairgrieve in the West Aberdeenshire constituency . In 1983 Bruce won the mandate of the newly created Gordon constituency and held the seat until 2015 when he did not run for another term. In the general election in 2015 , the constituency mandate went to the SNP candidate and former First Minister Alex Salmond .

Between 1988 and 1992 Bruce was the first party leader of the merged Scottish Social and Liberal Democrats or the Scottish Liberal Democrats . From 2000 Bruce held the position of President of the Scottish Liberal Democrats and from 2014 was also Vice Chairman of the Liberal Democrats. In 2001, he was appointed Minister for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs in the party's shadow cabinet . Between 2003 and 2005 he was shadow minister for trade and industry.

On October 19, 2015 Bruce was promoted to Life Peer as Baron Bruce of Bennachie , of Torphins in the County of Aberdeen , and thereby became a member of the House of Lords .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Information from the Liberal Democrats
  2. ↑ BBC News: Lib Dem Bruce is party stalwart , Feb 28, 2008
  3. ^ The London Gazette : No. 60593, p. 1 , August 9, 2013.
  4. ^ Results of the general election October 1974 ( Memento from March 19, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
  5. ^ Results of the 1979 general election ( Memento of March 3, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
  6. ↑ a b BBC: Malcolm Bruce
  7. ↑ Results of the general election 2015
  8. ^ The London Gazette : No. 61389, p. 19950 , October 23, 2015.

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SURNAME Bruce, Malcolm
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bruce, Malcolm Gray, Baron Bruce of Bennachie
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British politician
DATE OF BIRTH November 17, 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH Birkenhead