From which position did Wendy Alexander resign on June 28th.2008?
"her party – Ms Alexander announced her resignation as leader on 28 June 2008. She subsequently stated it had been a mistake for her to take on the leadership of Scottish Labour while her children were so young. From 2008–2011 Alexander served as a member of the Scottish Parliament's Economy, Energy and Tourism Committee. She was also convenor of the Scotland Bill Committee, which produced the report for the Scottish Parliament and UK Government in March 2011 proposing new powers for the Scottish Parliament. Many of these proposals recommend greater fiscal autonomy for Scotland, including improved borrowing powers, the ability"
"Wendy Alexander Wendy Alexander (born 27 June 1963, Glasgow) is a retired Scottish politician and the former Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) for Paisley North. She held various Scottish Government cabinet posts and was the leader of the Labour Party group in the Scottish Parliament from 2007–2008. In 2010–2011 she convened the Scotland Bill Committee on financial powers of the Scottish Parliament. After leaving politics, she was appointed Associate Dean of Global Business and Associate Dean for Degree Programmes and Career Services at the London Business School, and in April 2015 was appointed as Vice-Principal (International) by the University"
"Affairs under Labour Party Leader Ed Miliband, and lost his seat at the 2015 general election to 20-year old Mhairi Black of the SNP; with a majority of 5,684 votes. Alexander supports Rangers FC. Wendy Alexander Wendy Alexander (born 27 June 1963, Glasgow) is a retired Scottish politician and the former Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) for Paisley North. She held various Scottish Government cabinet posts and was the leader of the Labour Party group in the Scottish Parliament from 2007–2008. In 2010–2011 she convened the Scotland Bill Committee on financial powers of the Scottish Parliament. After leaving politics,"
"him, and was installed as leader of the Labour group in the Scottish Parliament on 14 September 2007. During a TV interview on 4 May 2008, Wendy Alexander performed a major U-turn on previous Scottish Labour Party's policy by seeming to endorse a referendum on Scottish independence, despite previously refusing to support any referendum on the grounds that she did not support independence. During a further TV interview on 6 May 2008 she reiterated this commitment to a referendum and claimed that she had the full backing of current British Prime Minister Gordon Brown. The following day, Gordon Brown denied"
"serves Scotland better [...] It is, quite simply, in the national interest."" She stood down from Parliament in May 2011 to seek a new life outside active politics. Alexander also serves as a member of the Social Market Foundation's Advisory Board and Reform Scotland's Political Advisory Board. Wendy Alexander is married to Professor Brian Ashcroft and has fraternal twin children. Alexander's brother Douglas, was the Labour Member of Parliament for Paisley and Renfrewshire South and was previously Secretary of State for International Development and Secretary of State for Scotland. He served as Shadow Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth"
"the issue was highlighted in a 2005 Scottish Parliament report. In November 2006, Lamont was appointed Deputy Minister for Justice and oversaw reforms to Scotland's Lower Courts system. She held the post until Labour was defeated at the 2007 election. McConnell appointed her as Labour's spokesperson for Communities and Sport in his post-election frontbench team, a role she retained in the shadow cabinet formed by his successor, Wendy Alexander, in September 2007. Following Alexander's decision to step down as leader of the Labour MSPs in June 2008, and Cathy Jamieson's subsequent resignation as her deputy, Lamont stood against fellow MSP"
"2010 census. On August 6, 2013, Alexander announced that he would not seek a seventh term in the House in the 2014 congressional elections. He cited his weariness with partisanship in Washington, D.C. as the primary reason for his decision to retire. On August 7, Alexander moved up his timetable for departure from Congress. He resigned his seat effective September 27; a special election was held to replace him, and an upset victory went to a political newcomer without support from the Republican leadership, Vance McAllister, a businessman from Monroe, who was defeated for a full term in the 2014"
"Heidi Alexander Heidi Alexander (born 17 April 1975) is a British Labour Party politician who is the Deputy Mayor of London for Transport under Sadiq Khan and Deputy Chair of Transport for London. She served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Lewisham East from the 2010 general election, resigning in May 2018 to join the mayoral team. She was appointed Shadow Secretary of State for Health on 13 September 2015, but resigned from the shadow cabinet on 26 June 2016. The daughter of Malcolm, an electrician, and his wife Elaine (), Heidi Alexander was born in Swindon, Wiltshire, and"
"ended in 2008. On 21 October 2008 she resigned her ministerial post. Wendy Kinnard Wendy Kinnard (born 23 March 1959) is a former Senator of Jersey, and was the island's Home Affairs Minister from 2005 until 2008. Jersey-born Kinnard gained a BA (Hons) in applied Applied Social Sciences, and a Dip.H.E. in Social and Environmental Problems from the Open University. She has been past chairwoman of Jersey Women’s Refuge, involved in Jersey Women’s Aid, a member of Network against Abuse and Violence in the Home, a trustee of the Spring Trust, a past member of the Youth Panel 1993-1996 She"
"2008 Scottish Labour Party leadership election The 2008 Scottish Labour Party leadership election was an internal party election to choose a new leader of the Labour Party in the Scottish Parliament, and was triggered following the resignation of Wendy Alexander following a row over donations to her own leadership campaign in 2007. 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, following the Scottish National Party's victory over Labour in the Scottish Parliament"
"She was awarded an honorary degree from Strathclyde University in 2007. After her MBA Alexander worked for Booz & Co., an international management consultancy, undertaking assignments in Europe, Asia, North America and Australasia. Following Labour's landslide victory at the 1997 general election, Alexander was appointed Special Adviser to Donald Dewar when he became Secretary of State for Scotland. She was deeply involved in the preparation of the White Paper on devolution, the Scotland Act 1998 and preparations for the establishment of the Scottish Parliament, all matters she had published on during the 1990s. Wendy Alexander served as a Member of"
"Elizabeth Alexander (press secretary) Elizabeth Evans Alexander is a Washington lawyer. She served as Press Secretary to Vice President Joe Biden from 2009 to 2011. Elizabeth Alexander began working for U.S. Senator Joe Biden in 2006, as Communications Director in his Senate office and for the Senate Foreign Relations Committee of which he was chairman. After the 2008 election, Vice President-elect Biden named her as his Press Secretary in December 2008, and she served in that role from his inauguration in January 2008 until June 2011. Biden announced in May of that year that she would soon be leaving his"
"was Sadiq Khan's campaign chair for the London mayoral election. In January 2017, Alexander proposed a ""reasoned amendment"" to stop the trigger of Article 50. Alexander co-chairs with Alison McGovern the Labour Campaign for the Single Market, and is a leading supporter of Open Britain. On 8 May 2018, Alexander announced she was to resign her seat to become Sadiq Khan's deputy mayor for transport in London. Alexander said, ""London is a fantastic city. I know Sadiq wants its transport system to be the envy of the world and I am looking forward to playing my part in making that"
"the 2010 election, and retained the seat in 2013 and 2016. He resigned effective 11 November 2017 due to constitutional ineligibility arising from his dual citizenship of the United Kingdom. He renounced his UK citizenship and stood as the Liberal Party candidate at the by-election, held on 16 December 2017, which he won. Alexander was born in Sydney. His father, Gilbert Alexander, was born in Essex, England, in 1907 and moved to Australia at the age of three. During a tennis career spanning the late 1960s to mid-1980s, Alexander won 7 tour singles titles and 27 doubles titles, and earned"
"appointed Shadow Secretary of State for Health on 13 September 2015, the day after Jeremy Corbyn was elected as Labour leader. On 26 June 2016, Alexander became the first of many Shadow Cabinet ministers to resign and call for a new party leader following the EU referendum result and sacking of Hilary Benn. ""I loved being the shadow health secretary. But I hated being part of the shadow cabinet"", Alexander wrote in ""The Guardian"" in August 2016, ""because it was entirely dysfunctional"" and ""so inept, so unprofessional, so shoddy. There was no effort to build a team"". In 2016 Alexander"
"8 March 2008 on the third ballot. Alexander was consecrated as a bishop at All Saints' Cathedral and formally installed as Bishop of Edmonton on 11 May 2008, the feast of Pentecost. Alexander's succeeding of Matthews as Bishop of Edmonton was the first instance in the Anglican Communion in which a female diocesan bishop succeeded another. Matthews was Alexander's ordaining bishop for her diaconal and priestly ordinations and was a co-consecrator for her episcopal ordination. Jane Alexander (bishop) Jane Alexander (born March 29, 1959) is a British-born Canadian Anglican bishop. She is the current Bishop of Edmonton, a bishop of"
"Parliament being returned to Westminster. On 2 July 2008, Nicol announced he was stepping down as party leader with immediate effect because of the pressures of leading a political party while having a young family based in Aberdeen, some distance from the Parliament in Edinburgh. Nicol's resignation took many in Scottish politics by surprise, and came only four days after the resignation of the former leader of Labour in the Scottish Parliament, Wendy Alexander. He was succeeded by Tavish Scott. On 24 September 2010, Nicol announced he would not be standing again at the Scottish elections in May 2011. On"
"happen."" Heidi Alexander Heidi Alexander (born 17 April 1975) is a British Labour Party politician who is the Deputy Mayor of London for Transport under Sadiq Khan and Deputy Chair of Transport for London. She served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Lewisham East from the 2010 general election, resigning in May 2018 to join the mayoral team. She was appointed Shadow Secretary of State for Health on 13 September 2015, but resigned from the shadow cabinet on 26 June 2016. The daughter of Malcolm, an electrician, and his wife Elaine (), Heidi Alexander was born in Swindon, Wiltshire,"
"Shadow Secretary of State for Social Exclusion for six months, before becoming Liberal Democrat Shadow Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, holding the post until June 2008. He gave this post up to focus on his role as chief of staff to the new party leader, Nick Clegg, as well as his responsibility for leading the preparation of the party's election manifesto. In June 2008, Alexander gave up his role shadowing the Work and Pensions brief to become Chief of Staff to the Leader of the Liberal Democrats, Nick Clegg. As part of his role Alexander became the main"
"Business and was selected as Labour's appointment to the Parliamentary Bureau. After Jack McConnell's resignation as Scottish Labour Leader on 15 August, Jamieson was acting leader until 14 September 2007, when Wendy Alexander took over the leadership who appointed Jamieson as her deputy but without a portfolio spokesperson's role. On 29 July 2008 Jamieson announced her intention to stand for the Scottish Labour leadership. After the contest with candidates Iain Gray and Andy Kerr, Jamieson came second to Gray during the election night on 13 September 2008. On 16 September Gray announced the appointment of Jamieson as Shadow Cabinet Secretary"
"scene"" (""WFP"", 21 March 1993). In the same year, he wrote an editorial piece defending the funding cutbacks initiated by provincial Education Minister Rosemary Vodrey (""WFP"", 10 July 1993). In 1994, he supported Vodrey's proposed reforms of the Young Offenders Act. Alexander received 2,442 votes (9.10%) in the 1997 election, finishing fourth against New Democratic Party candidate Pat Martin. He later served as chief executive officer of the Progressive Conservative Party of Manitoba, although he left this position in March 2003 amid financial difficulties within the party (""WFP"", 6 April 2003). Mackness (born 28 April 1938) is a retired business"
"Ayrshire Council, where she was Convenor of Educational Services. Murray was elected as Member of the Scottish Parliament for Dumfries Constituency following the first Scottish Parliamentary elections in May 1999. She was re-elected in May 2003 and then again in May 2007. She was appointed Deputy Minister for Tourism, Culture and Sport upon Jack McConnell becoming First Minister in 2001, a post she held until 2003. She has been a member of a number of Committees in the Scottish Parliament, including holding the post of Deputy Convenor of the Finance Committee between 2007 and 2008. Under Wendy Alexander's leadership Dr"
"Jeff Alexander decided to resign from his seat to take a part-time volunteer job in Governor Jon Huntsman Jr.'s economic development office. For the Republican nomination, Provo Republican delegates narrowed the field to two candidates: John Curtis and Chris Herrod. No candidate reached the 60% threshold to avoid an appointment. Governor Jon Huntsman wasn't the person who appoints a candidate; the party leader does. Utah Republican Party Chairwoman Enid Greene decided to appoint Chris Herrod to the seat, even though he didn't reach the 60% threshold and that he got fewer delegate votes than Curtis. For the 2009-2010 session, he"
"was replaced by Brooke Kennedy. Alexander was born Jason Alexander in New York City, the only son of actress Jane Alexander and her first husband Robert, founder and former director of Living Stage Theatre Company. He is the stepson of director Ed Sherin. Alexander and his wife, actress Maddie Corman, have three young children: a daughter and two sons. Alexander was arrested on July 29, 2015 for the downloading and file sharing of child pornography. The files were found on computers in Alexander’s New York home. The Westchester County D.A. released a statement detailing the nature of the pornography, revealing"
"councillor Gaby Schaunig resigned from all of her offices, accusing governor Jörg Haider from the BZÖ of mobbing and insulting her; Reinhart Rohr officially replaced her on 23 August 2008. Long-time SPÖ MP Erwin Niederwieser announced on 29 July 2008 that he would retire. Justice minister Maria Berger announced on 4 August 2008 in an interview with the ""Kurier"" that she would like to remain in office after the election; while she said it would be easier to push through some reforms in a coalition other than the grand coalition, she was not against continuing the coalition, and even stated"
"Rodney Alexander resigned effective September 26 to become the secretary of the Louisiana Department of Veterans Affairs. Russell said that he was inspired to enter the race by his grandchildren: I can see the American Dream slipping away ... People are telling me they want to restore common sense and some degree of sanity. People are sick and tired of the noise. The country’s confused. We're overregulated and overtaxed, and people are just sick to their stomach because gridlock has become a political virus that has infected Washington. Russell calls himself an ""independent thinker"", supports ""Second Amendment gun rights"", opposes"
"in November 2007 that he would be resigning his seat on July 1, 2008 in order to accept a position as headmaster of Toronto French School and would leave earlier if an election were called before that date. Godfrey subsequently postponed his resignation until August 1. On August 17, 2008, the Prime Minister's Office issued a press release on behalf of Prime Minister Stephen Harper announcing a by-election for Don Valley West on September 22, 2008. The by-election was canceled with the announcement of the federal election to held on October 14, 2008. This riding lost significant territory to Don"
"Women. In December 1991, she left Local Government and was appointed Minister for the Arts and Territories, retaining her Status of Women role. She stepped down from the ministry after the 1993 election, and chose to retire from politics at the 1996 election, being succeeded in her seat by deputy prime minister Kim Beazley, who had moved from the marginal seat of Swan. Her advocacy work continued beyond her retirement, and she is an honorary life member of the Australian Reproductive Health Alliance. Wendy Fatin Wendy Frances Fatin (born 10 April 1941) is a retired Australian politician. She was a"
"Chair of Scottish Water, a post from which he resigned after a major disagreement with Scottish Ministers about the content of the delivery plan for the company's capital programme. In 1992, Alexander conducted an independent inquiry into the large losses incurred by Western Isles Council (Comhairle nan Eilean Siar) as a result of the collapse of the Bank of Credit and Commerce International. In 2009 he chaired a review, sponsored jointly by Research Councils UK and Universities UK, of the operation of Full Economic Costing of Research in UK universities. Since 2016 he has been Chair of the Advisory Council"
"2006 when she went to work for the Children’s Workforce Development Council, a government agency. Here she held positions of national lead on the Third Sector, then Head of Regional support where she oversaw CWDC’s support to England’s Children’s Trusts. In 2009 she took up post as the first Director of Bradford’s status as the world’s first official Bradford City of Film. More recently Alexander has been active in broadcasting, initially as a volunteer on Bradford's community radio station BCB 106.6 and later as a presenter on local TV station Made in Leeds and BBC Radio Leeds. She is the"
"to choose a successor to Republican Rodney Alexander, who resigned from Congress on September 26 to fill a temporary position in the Jindal administration. Holloway said that his candidacy for the seat was motivated by suspicions that Alexander and Jindal were attempting to engineer the election of Republican State Senator Neil Riser of Columbia to succeed Alexander, who became the director of the Louisiana Department of Veterans Affairs. Holloway said: ""This thing stinks ... I feel like we tried to have an appointed congressman by the governor and by Rodney... Without any doubt, I think they've been orchestrating this for"
"effort with the Smart Successful Scotland strategy, bringing together Scotland's previously separate inward investment and export agencies into one organisation, Scotland Development International and created the Globalscot network to develop and expand Scotland's standing in the global business community. Alexander resigned from ministerial office on 4 May 2002. After her resignation from Jack McConnell's Cabinet she became a visiting professor at the Strathclyde Business School and became a member, and subsequently Chair of the Scottish Parliament's Finance Committee. She inspired and led the Allander Series of seminars which had the aim of encouraging fresh thinking on Scotland's economic future. The"
"the Scottish Parliament (MSP) from its creation in 1999 until 2011. From 1999 to 2002 Wendy Alexander was a Scottish Government minister, first serving as Minister for Communities, then as Minister for Enterprise and Lifelong Learning, and subsequently as Minister for Enterprise, Transport and Lifelong Learning. As Communities Minister she launched the free central heating installation programme for all pensioners without a system. She oversaw the creation of the first social justice report, A Scotland where everyone matters – our vision for Social Justice, setting ambitious new targets for delivering social justice and defeating child poverty in Scotland, and an"