Michelle Thomson

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Michelle Rhonda Thomson (born March 11, 1965 ) is a British politician who was a former member of the Scottish National Party (SNP).

Life

In 1985 Thomson graduated from the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama . She then worked as a professional pianist for several years. After successfully completing a master's degree in computer science , Thomson spent more than 23 years in finance, including at Standard Life and the Royal Bank of Scotland . In 2009 she built a real estate company. Three years later she appeared as co-founder and later director of the business network Business for Scotland , which lobbied for the economic strength of Scotland in the run-up to the Scottish independence referendum in 2014 . In this context, Thomson participated in around 100 public debates.

Political career

At the age of 16, Thomson joined the SNP. The party set up Thomson for the 2015 British general election in the Edinburgh West constituency . She stood against the incumbent Liberal Democrat Michael Crockart . After the SNP gained massive votes in these elections, Thomson achieved the highest percentage of votes with 39% and subsequently moved into the British House of Commons for the first time . From July 2015 she was a member of the Committee for Business, Innovation and Skills and from December also of the Committee for Business, Innovation and Skills .

Investigations were initiated against Thomson in September 2015 as a result of possible irregularities in her company's real estate transactions. As a result, she left the SNP and was an independent member of parliament until the end of the electoral term. In April 2017, the SNP's candidate committee announced that it would not consider Thomson as a candidate in the early parliamentary elections in 2017 . Thomson, for its part, announced not to run for office. At the end of the term, she left the House of Commons.

On December 8, 2016, in a speech in the lower house, she described how she had been raped as a fourteen-year-old and the resulting consequences for her, saying that she was “not a victim, but a survivor”.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Entry on myparliament.info
  2. ↑ a b The City should not dismiss the SNP as a single-issue party. In: The Independent. April 22, 2015.
  3. ↑ Information from the SNP ( Memento from July 22, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
  4. ↑ Results of the general election 2015
  5. ↑ Information from the British Parliament
  6. ↑ BBC News: Probe over property deals on behalf of Michelle Thomson MP , September 29, 2015.
  7. ↑ Sunday Express: SNP business guru steps down as police launch probe , September 30, 2015.
  8. ^ STV News MP contacts police over mortgage fraud probe involving her lawyer. October 1, 2015.
  9. ^ Severin Carrell: MP Michelle Thomson will not contest Edinburgh West seat. In: The Guardian . April 22, 2017, accessed April 26, 2017 .
  10. ↑ Edinburgh MP Michelle Thomson's rape 'survivor' story moves House of Commons to tears. In: The Herald. Retrieved December 8, 2016 .
personal data
SURNAME Thomson, Michelle
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Thomson, Michelle Rhonda
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British politician
DATE OF BIRTH March 11, 1965