"by Former President of the Union and former leader of the Liberal Democrats and MP for North East Fife Sir Menzies Campbell. To mark the 30th anniversary of the World Universities Debating Championships which were founded by Glasgow University Union, GUU held a Grand Show Debate on the subject of Scottish Independence. This was held in the union on 19 November 2011. The debate featured eight of the union's ten former world champions and was chaired by the union president, Chris Sibbald. Speakers in the debate included: former ITN presenter John Nicolson, Managing Director of McKinsey & Company UK and"
"2005 the ward of Leven East was incorporated into this constituency from what was Central Fife. North East Fife (UK Parliament constituency) North East Fife is a county constituency in Fife, Scotland, represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament by Stephen Gethins since 2015. At the 2017 General Election, two votes separated the SNP and the Liberal Democrat candidates out of 41,822 cast. The seat became the most marginal nationally. 1983-2005: North East Fife District. 2005-present: The area of the Fife Council other than those parts in the constituencies of Dunfermline and West Fife, Glenrothes, and Kirkcaldy"
"North East Fife (UK Parliament constituency) North East Fife is a county constituency in Fife, Scotland, represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament by Stephen Gethins since 2015. At the 2017 General Election, two votes separated the SNP and the Liberal Democrat candidates out of 41,822 cast. The seat became the most marginal nationally. 1983-2005: North East Fife District. 2005-present: The area of the Fife Council other than those parts in the constituencies of Dunfermline and West Fife, Glenrothes, and Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath. North East Fife constituency is in the region of Fife in Scotland. Fife has"
"honorary degree of Doctor of Laws. In 2010 it was reported that Campbell had been considered for the post of High Commissioner to Australia; ""The Guardian"" claimed it had been stalled as it would trigger a by-election in Campbell's constituency. Menzies Campbell Walter Menzies Campbell, Baron Campbell of Pittenweem, (; born 22 May 1941), often known as Ming Campbell, is a British Liberal Democrat politician, advocate and former athlete. He was the Member of Parliament (MP) for North East Fife from 1987 to 2015 and was the Leader of the Liberal Democrats from 2 March 2006 until 15 October 2007."
"Fife, since 2001, when he succeeded Henry McLeish. Willie Hamilton had previously represented the area, which has elected Labour MPs since Hamilton won West Fife from the Communist Party of Great Britain in 1950. The poll followed a run of poor by-election results for the Labour Party, which included a loss to the Scottish National Party (SNP) in Glasgow East, formerly the party's twenty-fifth safest seat in Britain. Glenrothes has a considerably smaller Labour majority than Glasgow East had. According to the ""Financial Times"", Labour privately admitted that they expected to lose Glenrothes to the SNP. ""The Guardian"" described the"
"etc.) and three planning committees. Following the May 2017 council elections no party was in overall control, resulting in a Power Sharing Agreement being drawn up between the Scottish National Party (SNP) and the Labour group to share control equally. David Alexander (SNP) and David Ross (Labour) were agreed as co-leaders of the council. A Provost of Fife is elected every five years, who chairs the full council meetings and acts in a ceremonial capacity on behalf of the council. The current Provost is former football manager Jim Leishman MBE, who was first elected in May 2012. Immediately following the"
"of the widespread unpopularity of their coalition with the Conservative party at the UK level. The leader of the Scottish Liberal Democrats is the MSP for North East Fife, Willie Rennie, who took up his role in 2011. The first elections to the newly created National Assembly for Wales were in 1999; the Liberal Democrats took six seats in the inaugural Assembly; Welsh Labour won a plurality of seats, but without an overall majority. In October 2000, following a series of close votes, the parties formed a coalition, with the Liberal Democrat leader in the assembly, Michael German, becoming the"
"Menzies Campbell Walter Menzies Campbell, Baron Campbell of Pittenweem, (; born 22 May 1941), often known as Ming Campbell, is a British Liberal Democrat politician, advocate and former athlete. He was the Member of Parliament (MP) for North East Fife from 1987 to 2015 and was the Leader of the Liberal Democrats from 2 March 2006 until 15 October 2007. Campbell held the British record for the 100 metres sprint from 1967–74, having run the distance in 10.2 seconds. He captained the Great Britain athletics team in 1965-66. He is currently the Chancellor of the University of St Andrews. He"
"Chairman of Belgrave Capital Management in London, and was for many years a Director of Kingdom FM Radio Ltd., Fife, and Advisor to the Board of Elmwood College in Cupar (2012). John Purvis John Robert Purvis, CBE (born 6 July 1938, St Andrews, Fife) is a former Conservative MEP for Mid Scotland and Fife (1979-1984) and from 1999 to 2009 was one of Scotland's seven MEPs. Purvis is married with three children and ten grandchildren. He has farming and property interests in North East Fife and has extensive knowledge of the international financial services industry, having worked in the sector"
"External Relations Committee and the Justice Committee. In the 2016 Campbell finished second to Willie Rennie and was not elected. Roderick Campbell Roderick Alexander McRobie Campbell (born 15 June 1953) is SNP politician, who was formerly the Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) for the North East Fife constituency 2011−2016. Campbell was born on 15 June 1953 in Edinburgh. He was educated at Reading School and graduated from Exeter University with a BA (Hons) in politics. He received a LL.M in human rights law from the University of Strathclyde. Campbell first qualified as a solicitor, in both England and Wales"
"1 DJ Edith Bowman. Anstruther has also become known as the base for the Fence Collective, a network of nu-folk musicians. Traditionally, the two Anstruthers returned a single member of Parliament together with Kilrenny, Pittenweem, St Andrews, Cupar, and Crail. Anstruther is in the North East Fife UK Parliament constituency (MP is currently Stephen Gethins of the Scottish National Party) and the North East Fife Scottish Parliament constituency. In the 2017 General Election Stephen Gethins MP retained his seat by a majority of only two votes. There were three recounts. The narrowly defeated candidate was Lib Dem Elizabeth Riches, a"
"once part of the Fife coalfield, on the north bank of the Firth of Forth. The region has economic troubles, and the closure of the Rosyth naval base and the troubles at the naval dockyard have not helped. Statistically, this was one of Labour’s safest seats in Scotland. In the House of Commons, there has been a Labour Member of Parliament (MP) for the area since 1950. Gordon Brown, the former Prime Minister, was MP for the Dunfermline East Westminster constituency from 1983 to 2005. He is now MP for the Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath constituency, where his majority at the"
"Roderick Campbell Roderick Alexander McRobie Campbell (born 15 June 1953) is SNP politician, who was formerly the Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) for the North East Fife constituency 2011−2016. Campbell was born on 15 June 1953 in Edinburgh. He was educated at Reading School and graduated from Exeter University with a BA (Hons) in politics. He received a LL.M in human rights law from the University of Strathclyde. Campbell first qualified as a solicitor, in both England and Wales and Scotland, and rose to become partner in a multinational firm of lawyers based in London. In 2008 he was"
"Chief Secretary to the Treasury Danny Alexander; Business Secretary and former interim leader Vince Cable; Energy and Climate Change Secretary Ed Davey; Charles Kennedy, who had been party leader from 1999 to 2006 and had been a member of Parliament for 32 years; and former deputy party leader Simon Hughes, who had also served in Parliament for 32 years. Ministers Jo Swinson, Lynne Featherstone, Paul Burstow and Jenny Willott were also among the Lib Dem MPs who lost their seats. Nick Clegg, the party's leader and Deputy Prime Minister in the Conservative-Lib Dem coalition government of 2010 to 2015, was"
"Tim Farron Timothy James ""Tim"" Farron (born 27 May 1970) is a British politician who was the Leader of the Liberal Democrats between July 2015 and July 2017. He announced his resignation on 14 June 2017 following the 2017 UK general election, remaining in his position until Sir Vince Cable was elected on 20 July 2017. He is the Member of Parliament (MP) for Westmorland and Lonsdale, having first been elected in 2005 and re-elected at the 2010, 2015 and 2017 general elections, and was the President of the Liberal Democrats from 2011-14. Farron was born in Preston, Lancashire, and"
"made."" He is a vegetarian, and a lifelong fan of the East Lancashire football club Blackburn Rovers. In January 2018, he won a round of Celebrity Mastermind, with Blackburn Rovers F.C as his specialist subject. Tim Farron Timothy James ""Tim"" Farron (born 27 May 1970) is a British politician who was the Leader of the Liberal Democrats between July 2015 and July 2017. He announced his resignation on 14 June 2017 following the 2017 UK general election, remaining in his position until Sir Vince Cable was elected on 20 July 2017. He is the Member of Parliament (MP) for Westmorland"
"first Liberal Democrat seat to be declared was North East Fife, the constituency of LibDem deputy leader Sir Menzies Campbell which he had held since 1987. The constituency of Crawley in West Sussex had the slimmest majority of any seat, with Labour holding off the Conservatives by 37 votes after three recounts. Following problems with exit polls in previous British elections, the BBC and ITV agreed for the first time to pool their respective data, using results from Mori and NOP. More than 20,000 people were interviewed for the poll at 120 polling stations across the country. The predictions were"
"resident of Anstruther and former local councillor. The MSP is currently Willie Rennie, who won back the seat for the Lib Dems from Roderick Campbell of the SNP. Anstruther is in the Mid-Scotland and Fife Scottish Parliamentary region and the Scotland European Parliament constituency. In local politics the ward of East Neuk and Landward (of which Anstruther is part) elects three councillors to Fife Council under the single transferable vote system. Anstruther Anstruther (locally ""Ainster"" ; ) is a small town in Fife, Scotland, nine miles south-southeast of St. Andrews. The two halves of the town are divided by a"
"third place by the Liberal Democrats and fell to fourth place in 2015, with UKIP finishing in second place. Sir Frederick Edwin Smith, then Solicitor-General in the David Lloyd George Coalition Government, was returned for Liverpool West Derby at the 1918 general election; when constituency reorganisation abolished his former neighbouring Walton seat. He sat for only two months, being promoted Lord Chancellor and raised to the peerage as Lord Birkenhead in February 1919. He was the first of two MPs for this seat to achieve the highest legal office. Maxwell Fyfe, KC, MP from 1935-54 (including World War II) became"
"2001 and 2005 are not the same person. Westmorland and Lonsdale (UK Parliament constituency) Westmorland and Lonsdale is a constituency in the south of Cumbria, represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2005 by Tim Farron, the former leader of the Liberal Democrats (2015-2017). The constituency is similar in extent to the South Lakeland district of Cumbria. Important towns by size in the constituency include Kendal, Windermere and Kirkby Lonsdale. It is named for the historic county of Westmorland and the Lancashire Hundred of Lonsdale, both of which extend beyond the bounds of the constituency. Following"
"his former constituency, in June 2007. His elder son John, born 1944, succeeded him in the baronetcy. Sir John Gilmour, 3rd Baronet Colonel Sir John Edward Gilmour, 3rd Baronet, DSO, TD, DL (24 October 1912 – 1 June 2007) was a British Conservative Party politician. He was Member of Parliament for East Fife for 18 years, from 1961 to 1979. He was also a soldier, farmer and landowner, and a company director and building society vice-president. Gilmour was born in Glasgow. His mother died when he was seven. His grandfather, Sir John Gilmour, 1st Baronet was chairman of the Scottish"
"2011, Clegg stated he dealt with the pressures of political office by reading novels late at night and he ""cries regularly to music"". He supports Arsenal F.C. Nick Clegg Sir Nicholas William Peter Clegg (born 7 January 1967) is a British former politician who served as Deputy Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 2010 to 2015 and as Leader of the Liberal Democrats from 2007 to 2015. An """" liberal, Clegg served as a Member of Parliament (MP) for Sheffield Hallam from 2005 to 2017 and has been associated with both socially liberal and economically liberal policies. He is"
"Lesley Laird Lesley Margaret Laird (born 15 November 1958) is the Deputy Leader of the Scottish Labour Party and the MP for Kirkcaldy & Cowdenbeath. Laird narrowly defeated the sitting MP, Roger Mullin of the SNP by 259 votes. A councillor since 2012, Laird is the former deputy leader of Fife Council, where she also held the administration portfolio for economy and planning. Born in Greenock and educated at James Watt College, Caledonian University and then Edinburgh Napier University, Laird was formerly employed in senior human resources posts in the electronic, semiconductor and financial service industries prior to election. Laird"
"overturned Roger Mullin of the SNP's majority to become the constituency's new Member of Parliament, receiving 36.8% of the vote. Laird was appointed Shadow Secretary of State for Scotland less than a week later on 14 June 2017. Lesley Laird Lesley Margaret Laird (born 15 November 1958) is the Deputy Leader of the Scottish Labour Party and the MP for Kirkcaldy & Cowdenbeath. Laird narrowly defeated the sitting MP, Roger Mullin of the SNP by 259 votes. A councillor since 2012, Laird is the former deputy leader of Fife Council, where she also held the administration portfolio for economy and"
"was seen as a safe Labour seat. However, he lost the seat to Labour's Thomas Docherty at the 2010 general election. Douglas Chapman won the seat in the SNP's Scottish landslide in General Election 2015. This constituency was formed in 2005 from all of the old Dunfermline West and parts of the old Dunfermline East constituencies. Rosyth and Inverkeithing in the southeast are the only large population centres on the coast. To the north and west of Dunfermline is more rugged and robust Fife countryside. The whole seat is up against the Firth of Forth. Rachel Squire (Labour) was the"
"married to Fiona, with whom he has a daughter. They lived on Victoria Road, Chester, until mid-2016, when they moved to Winchester. They have since divorced. Woolfe is a Catholic. Steven Woolfe Steven Marcus Woolfe (born 6 October 1967) is an English politician, who has served as a Member of the European Parliament for the North West England region since the 2014 European election. Woolfe was considered a frontrunner in UKIP's 2016 leadership election, but was excluded from the race after submitting his nomination late. After Diane James resigned from the party leadership, Woolfe was standing in the second UKIP"
"The Council meetings take place in Fife House (formerly known as Glenrothes House) in the town centre. The west wing of the building was built by the Glenrothes Development Corporation (GDC) as their offices in 1969, which was later used as the headquarters of Fife Regional Council. The former administrative seat was Cupar. Since the last Scottish election in 2012, Fife Council has been run as a minority by the Labour party, with a total of 35 seats, with support of Tory and independent councillors. Alex Rowley was elected leader of Fife Council but demitted office following his election as"
"Westmorland and Lonsdale (UK Parliament constituency) Westmorland and Lonsdale is a constituency in the south of Cumbria, represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2005 by Tim Farron, the former leader of the Liberal Democrats (2015-2017). The constituency is similar in extent to the South Lakeland district of Cumbria. Important towns by size in the constituency include Kendal, Windermere and Kirkby Lonsdale. It is named for the historic county of Westmorland and the Lancashire Hundred of Lonsdale, both of which extend beyond the bounds of the constituency. Following their review of parliamentary representation in Cumbria, the"
"parliamentary candidates: Bob Thompson, formerly the only Lib Dem on the council, stood for Parliament in City of Chester; the former Labour councillor Julia Tickridge stood in Weaver Vale; and Justin Madders, previous leader of the Labour group, stood in and was elected to Ellesmere Port and Neston. The Statement of Persons Nominated was published on Friday 10 April 2015. The election took place on 7 May 2015, on the same day as the general election, various parish council elections, town council elections in Frodsham, Neston, Northwich and Winsford, and a referendum on town planning in Malpas. As is standard"
"Nigel Dodds Nigel Alexander Dodds (born 20 August 1958) is a Northern Ireland barrister and unionist politician. He is the incumbent Member of Parliament (MP) for Belfast North, and has been deputy leader of the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) since June 2008. He has been Lord Mayor of Belfast twice, and from 1993 has been General Secretary of the DUP. Dodds became North Belfast's MP in the 2001 UK general election. He has served in the past as a member of the Northern Ireland Assembly, and as Minister of Finance in the Northern Ireland Executive. Nigel Dodds was born in"
"after Jamie Reed announced his resignation, Docherty put his name forward to stand in the following by-election. Thomas Docherty (politician) Thomas Docherty (born 28 January 1975) is a British Labour Party politician who served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Dunfermline and West Fife from 2010 until 2015. Before becoming an MP Docherty was an Account Director with a communications consultancy, having previously worked for Network Rail, BNFL and as a research assistant to Scott Barrie, the former MSP for Dunfermline West. Thomas Docherty was elected as the Member of Parliament for Dunfermline and West Fife in the May 2010"
"Fiona O'Donnell Fiona O'Donnell (née Kenny; born 27 January 1960) is a Scottish Labour Party politician and who was the Member of Parliament for East Lothian from 2010 to 2015. In the 2017 UK local elections, she was elected to East Lothian Council. Born in Nanaimo, British Columbia, Canada but raised in Fort William, Scotland, since the age of five, she was educated at Lochaber High School and the University of Glasgow. O'Donnell succeeded Anne Moffat, who was deselected by her Constituency Labour Party in January 2010. and retained the East Lothian seat with a majority of 12,258 votes. She"
"with a backlash in the media. Gerry Adams has been portrayed in a number of films, TV programmes, and books: Gerry Adams Gerard Adams (; born 6 October 1948) is an Irish republican politician who was the Leader of the Sinn Féin political party between 13 November 1983 and 10 February 2018, and has been a Teachta Dála (TD) for Louth since the 2011 general election. From 1983 to 1992 and from 1997 to 2011, he was an abstentionist Member of Parliament (MP) of the British Parliament for the Belfast West constituency. In 1984, Adams was seriously wounded in an"