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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 ...
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.
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]
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 .
Anum Qaisar, [1] previously Anum Qaisar-Javed [3] (born 11 September 1992) is a Scottish National Party (SNP) politician who served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Airdrie and Shotts from 2021 to 2024, when she lost the seat to Kenneth Stevenson of the Labour Party. [4] She was also the SNP Spokesperson for Levelling Up from 2023 to 2024.
[6] [7] In May 2015, the SNP made him their Spokesperson on Europe at Westminster. [8] In July he was appointed as a member of the House of Commons Foreign Affairs Select Committee, [9] the first SNP candidate to win the seat. At the 2017 general election, Gethins was narrowly re-elected as the MP for North East Fife. He received 13,743 votes ...
[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 ...