Tavish Scott

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Tavish Scott

Tavish Scott (born May 6, 1966 in Inverness ) is a Scottish politician and member of the Liberal Democrats .

Life

Scott attended Anderson High School in Lerwick and Napier University in Edinburgh , which he left with a bachelor's degree in economics. He then worked for the House of -Abgeordneten Jim Wallace and 1990 was spokesman for the Liberal Democrats in Scotland. Scott returned to the Shetland Islands and took over his parents' farming.

Political career

Between 1994 and 1999 he was a member of the Shetland Islands Council. For the first time Scott appeared in the Scottish general election in 1999 to national elections. He ran in the Shetland constituency and was able to win the direct mandate with a clear lead over the Labor candidate. He moved into the newly created Scottish Parliament and was able to defend his mandate in the following general elections in 2003, 2007 , 2011 and 2016 .

From October 2000 Scott took over the position of Deputy Minister for Parliamentary Affairs from his party colleague Iain Smith and in mid-March 2001 gave it to Euan Robson . Between May 2003 and June 2005, Scott served as Assistant Secretary of State for Finance, Public Affairs and Parliamentary Affairs. He then took over the post of Minister of Transport from Nicol Stephen and held it until May 2007. In August Scott ran to succeed the outgoing Nicol Stephen as chairman of the Scottish Liberal Democrats and was elected with 59% of the vote. In response to the Liberal Democrats' poor result in the 2011 general election, Scott stepped down as chairman. Willie Rennie was elected to succeed Scott.

In June 2019, Scott announced that he would be giving up his parliamentary seat for the following month to take up a post with the Scottish Rugby Federation . In a by-election on August 29, 2019, his seat went to the Liberal Democrat Beatrice Wishart , although she received almost 20 percent fewer votes than Tavish.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Information from the Scottish Parliament
  2. ↑ a b c d Information from the Liberal Democrats
  3. ↑ the 1999 general election on the Scottish Parliament website
  4. ↑ the general election 2003 on the pages of the Scottish Parliament
  5. ↑ the 2007 general election on the Scottish Parliament website
  6. ↑ the 2011 general election on the Scottish Parliament website
  7. ↑ Information from the Scottish Parliament
  8. ↑ Information on scottishpolitics.org ( Memento from September 10, 2012 in the web archive archive.today )
  9. ^ The Scotsman: Tavish Scott wins Liberal Democrat leadership race
  10. ^ The Independent: Scottish Lib Dem leader steps down
  11. ^ The Guardian: Willie Rennie promises to rediscover Liberal Democrats' soul
  12. ^ Former Lib Dem leader Tavish Scott to quit Holyrood. BBC , June 26, 2019, accessed July 29, 2019. (English)
  13. ^ Lib Dems hold off SNP to win Shetland by election. BBC News, August 30, 2019, accessed September 18, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Scott, Tavish
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Scottish politician
DATE OF BIRTH May 6, 1966
PLACE OF BIRTH Inverness