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High profile SNP MPs lost their seats in the election, including Kirsten Oswald, Tommy Sheppard, Alison Thewliss and Joanna Cherry. [125] On 7 July 2024, newly elected Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Keir Starmer travelled to Edinburgh on the first stop of his tour of the four countries of the United Kingdom and met with Swinney at the ...
Chief Whip of the Scottish National Party in the House of Commons: 2019: 2019 Kirsty McNeill: Labour: Gordon and Buchan [n 58] Richard Thomson [334] SNP Spokesperson for Northern Ireland, Wales, Business and Trade: 2019: 2019 Harriet Cross: Conservative: North West Leicestershire: Independent: Andrew Bridgen [n 59] [338] [339] 2010: 2010 Amanda ...
Ian Blackford (born 14 May 1961) is a Scottish politician and investment banker who served as leader of the Scottish National Party (SNP) in the House of Commons from 2017 to 2022. He served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Ross, Skye and Lochaber from 2015 to 2024 .
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Alison Emily Thewliss (born 13 September 1982) [1] is a Scottish National Party (SNP) politician. She was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Glasgow Central from the May 2015 general election until 2024. [2] [3] Before being elected to Westminster, Thewliss was a Glasgow City Councillor for the Calton ward, first elected in 2007.
[9] [10] During his time as a councillor, Hanvey was the SNP spokesperson for health and social care, SNP group convener, and latterly SNP group leader in 2017, [11] but lost his seat at the 2017 local elections. [12] In October 2019, he was selected as the SNP candidate for the Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath constituency at the 2019 general ...
Swinson lost her East Dunbartonshire constituency to Amy Callaghan of the Scottish National Party in the 2019 general election by 149 votes. She had first won the seat when it was re-created in 2005 , but lost it to John Nicolson of the SNP in 2015 , before regaining it in the 2017 general election .
He stood in the Edinburgh East and Musselburgh constituency, winning that seat from Scottish Labour with a 13.3% swing to give a majority of 1,382. This was the first time the SNP had ever won a parliamentary seat in Edinburgh. After the SNP's victory at the 2007 Scottish Parliament election, MacAskill became the Cabinet Secretary for Justice.