Nigel Griffiths

Nigel Griffiths (born May 20, 1955 in Glasgow ) is a Scottish politician.

Life

Griffiths was born in Glasgow, Scotland, in 1955. He attended Hawick High School and then moved to the University of Edinburgh and the Moray House College of Education (now part of the University of Edinburgh). Griffiths is a member of various associations, including Amnesty International , Friends of the Earth and the Ramblers' Association . He is a talented chess player and in 1989 campaigned for the financial support of chess to be strengthened.

Political career

Griffiths joined the Labor Party at the age of 15 . He served on Edinburgh City Council for seven years in the 1980s . There he chaired the housing committee and also dealt with the issue of homelessness. For the first time Griffiths appeared in the 1987 general election to national elections. He applied for the mandate of the constituency of Edinburgh South , a traditionally conservative constituency. On election day, Griffiths received the largest share of the vote with 37.7%, winning the constituency for the first time for the Labor Party. In the following general election in 1992 and 1997 , he held his mandate and increased his share of the vote. After serving as spokesman for consumer protection for eight years, Griffiths was appointed junior minister in trade and economics in the Labor government under Prime Minister Tony Blair . He was dismissed after 18 months after alleging a plot by senior officials against him and political support for a company in which he had an interest.

Despite losing votes, Griffiths held his mandate in the 2001 and 2005 general election . He was given the position of Parliamentary Private Secretary in the Department of Trade and Industry and was named Deputy Leader of the House of Commons under Jack Straw after the 2005 elections . Following the government's plans to continue the Trident program in 2007, he resigned from this post. Griffiths hit the headlines in 2009 when he was accused of having an extramarital affair with a parliamentary clerk, which he later admitted. At the general election in 2010 , he has not raced for more. His party colleague Ian Murray held the mandate for the Labor Party.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Nigel Griffiths in Hansard (English)
2. ↑ ^{a b c d} Profile of Nigel Griffiths on BBC News
3. ↑ Profile of Nigel Griffiths on Guardian Politics
4. ↑ Results of the lower house elections in 1987 ( Memento of the original from June 3, 2016 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. 
5. ↑ Results of the general election in 1992 ( Memento of the original from June 3, 2016 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. 
6. ↑ ^{a b} Results of the 1997 and 2001 general election
7. ↑ Results of the lower house elections 2005 ( Memento of the original from September 24, 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. 
8. ↑ BBC News: Minister quits over Trident plans , March 12, 2007
9. ↑ Financial Express: Did Murdoch's tabloids go too far? , July 14, 2009
10. ↑ 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. 

Web links

• Nigel Griffiths at Hansard (English)