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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 ...
Ferrier narrowly lost the seat in the June 2017 election to Killen by 265 votes. [ 10 ] [ 11 ] She stood as a candidate in the 2019 European Parliament election . [ 12 ] She was again selected as the SNP candidate for the seat in the 2019 general election , where she defeated Killen on a 5-per-cent swing and gained a majority of 5,240 votes, or ...
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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Stephens was 6th on the list of SNP candidates for the six Scottish seats in the 2014 European Parliament election, [10] although as only the first two SNP candidates were elected, Stephens was not elected. [11] Stephens was the secretary of the SNP Trade Union Group, [12] a member of the party's National Executive Committee. [13]
Clark unsuccessfully contested the parliamentary seat of Galloway and Upper Nithsdale at the 1997 general election, a traditional Conservative and Scottish National Party (SNP) marginal. She finished in third place behind the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry Ian Lang, who lost his seat to the SNP's Alasdair Morgan. [8]