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The 2008 Glenrothes by-election was a by-election held in Scotland on 6 November 2008 [1] to elect a new Member of Parliament (MP) for the UK House of Commons constituency of Glenrothes in Fife, Scotland. The seat fell vacant when the previous MP, John MacDougall , died of pleural mesothelioma on 13 August 2008, aged 60. [2]
The Palace of Westminster, in which the Houses of Parliament are based This article lists the published allegations of expenses abuse made against specific members of the British Parliament in the course of the United Kingdom parliamentary expenses scandal. While the majority of these were first made public by The Daily Telegraph on or after 8 May 2009, a few cases had already come to public ...
On 24 January 2008, Peter Hain resigned his two cabinet posts (Secretary of State for Work and Pensions and Secretary of State for Wales) after the Electoral Commission referred donations to his Deputy Leadership campaign to the police. [25] Derek Conway (2008). The Conservative Party MP was found to have reclaimed salaries he had paid to his ...
6 November – Lindsay Roy retains the seat for the Labour Party at the Glenrothes by-election with a majority of 6,737 votes. The previous Labour MP John MacDougall died on 13 August 2008 from pleural mesothelioma. [4] 14 November – Sixteen-year-old Nicolle Earley kills 63-year-old Ann Gray at her home in Crosshill, Fife. [5]
Protestors outside Anglo Irish Bank during protests against the bank bailout in April 2010. The Anglo Irish Bank hidden loans controversy (also known as the circular transactions controversy) began in Dublin in December 2008 when Seán FitzPatrick, the chairman of Anglo Irish Bank (the state's third-largest bank), admitted he had hidden a total of €87 million in loans from the bank ...
Since 1995, local elections in Scotland have been generally held every four years for all the 32 unitary authorities created under the Local Government etc. (Scotland) Act 1994. Between 1975 and 1992, elections were held every two years for either district or regional council, which sat for four-year terms.
Iain Gray won the contest and was announced as leader on 13 September 2008. It was the second Scottish Labour leadership election in as many years, the first being caused by the resignation of Jack McConnell, [2] following the Scottish National Party's victory over Labour in the 2007 Scottish Parliament election, however in this election ...
26 October: The Scottish Government publishes legal advice relating to its refusal to release evidence it had presented to the Hamilton Inquiry, which confirms that Scottish Government civil servants assisted in the redaction of the Hamilton Report and briefed the Scottish Government on the progress of the inquiry before the report's publication.