|
The Right Honourable Jim Wallace QC (born August 25, 1954 in Annan, Dumfries and Galloway) is a Scottish politician, first leader of the Scottish Liberal Democrats, first Deputy First Minister of the Scottish Executive, and and Member of the Scottish Parliament for Orkney. The Right Honourable (abbreviated The Rt Hon. ...
August 25 is the 237th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (238th in leap years), with 128 days remaining. ...
1954 was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
The town of Annan stands on the River Annan in the region of Dumfries and Galloway on the Solway Firth in the south of Scotland. ...
Dumfries and Galloway (Dùn Phris agus Gall-Ghaidhealaibh in Gaelic) is one of 32 unitary council areas in Scotland. ...
Scotland (Alba in Scottish Gaelic) is a country in northwest Europe and a constituent nation of the United Kingdom. ...
The Elections and Parties Series Democracy Representative democracy History of democracy Referenda Liberal democracy Representation Voting Voting systems Ideology Elections Elections by country Elections by calender Electoral systems Politics Politics by country Political campaigns Political science Political philosophy Related topics Political parties Parties by country Parties by name Parties by...
The Liberal Democrats, often shortened to Lib Dems, are a social liberal political party based in the United Kingdom. ...
The Deputy First Minister of Scotland is, as the name suggests, the Deputy to the First Minister of Scotland. ...
The term Scottish Executive is used in two distinct but closely related senses. ...
Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) is the title given to any one of the 129 individuals elected to serve in the Scottish Parliament. ...
Education Wallace grew up in Annan, studying there before being accepted to Cambridge University where he obtained a joint degree in Economics and Law. From there he travelled to Edinburgh to read Legal Studies, graduating in 1977. REDIRECT [1] ...
Economics (from the Greek οίκος [oikos], house, and νÎμω [nemo], rules, hence household management) is the social science that studies the production, distribution, trade and consumption of goods and services in the context of the competing alternative allocations of goods and courses of action. ...
Corruption Jurisprudence Philosophy of law Law (principle) List of legal abbreviations Legal code Intent Letter versus Spirit Natural Justice Natural law Religious law Witness intimidation Legal research External links Wikibooks Wikiversity has more about this subject: School of Law Look up law in Wiktionary, the free dictionary Law, Legal Definitions...
Edinburghs location in Scotland Edinburgh viewed from Arthurs Seat. ...
Political career
Westminster Wallace stayed based in Edinburgh as he entered politics, joining the then-Liberal Party. He failed to win a constituency at the first time of asking, the seat of Dumfriesshire in 1979. Four years later, he would earn the Liberal nomination for the seat of Orkney and Shetland, a safe seat previously occupied by Jo Grimond, and won election to the UK parliament. He stayed at Westminster for 16 years, until the advent of devolution in 1999. From there on he devoted his time to the Scottish Parlimanent, earning election for the Orkney constituency in the first elections to that parliament. The Liberal Party was one of the two major British political parties from the early 19th century until the 1920s, and a third party of varying strength and importance up to 1988, when it merged with the Social Democratic Party to form a new party which would become known as...
A constituency is any cohesive corporate unit or body bound by shared structures, goals or loyalty. ...
Dumfriesshire was a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1708 until 2005. ...
Orkney and Shetland is a constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. ...
Joseph (Jo) Grimond, Baron Grimond (July 29, 1913 - October 24, 1993) was a British politician, leader of the Liberal Party from 1956 to 1967 and again briefly in 1976. ...
The Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is the supreme legislative institution in the United Kingdom and British overseas territories (it alone has parliamentary sovereignty). ...
Devolution or home rule is the granting of powers from central government to government at regional or local level. ...
The polling date for the first Scottish Parliament election was held on 7th May, 1999. ...
Holyrood Labour failed to gain an outright majority in the first elections, forcing Donald Dewar to enter a coalition government with Wallace’s Liberal Democrats, and agreement under which Wallace became Deputy First Minister and Minister for Justice. He has maintained the brief throughout the first term of the Parliament, on two occasions standing in as Acting First Minister, firstly in 2000 due to the death of Dewar and in 2001 after the resignation of Henry McLeish. After the 2003 elections, he also picked up the Enterprise and Lifelong Learning brief in Jack McConnell’s cabinet reshuffle. He was appointed a Privy Counsellor in 2000. The Labour Party is a centre-left political party in the United Kingdom (see British politics), and one of the United Kingdoms three main political parties. ...
A majority is a subset of a group that is more than half of the entire group. ...
The Rt. ...
A Coalition is an alliance between entities, during which they cooperate in joint action, each in their own self-interest. ...
This article is about the year 2000. ...
2001: A Space Odyssey 2001 2001 is a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
The Right Honourable Henry McLeish (born June 15, 1948) is a Scottish politician. ...
The polling date for the second Scottish Parliament election was held on May 1, 2003. ...
Jack McConnell The Right Honourable Jack Wilson McConnell (born June 30, 1960 in Irvine, Scotland) is a Scottish politician, leader of the Labour Party in Scotland and the current First Minister of Scotland. ...
This article concerns the British Sovereigns Privy Council. ...
Resignation On May 9, 2005, Wallace announced his intention to stand down as party leader and Deputy First Minister, to serve his time out in the Parliament until the 2007 election as a backbench MSP. He was adamant to retire from frontline politics on a high following the success of the Liberal Democrats in the 2005 UK general election. His resignation took effect on 23 June, and Nicol Stephen was elected to replace him. May 9 is the 129th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (130th in leap years). ...
2005 is a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar and is the current year. ...
A backbencher is a Member of Parliament or a legislature who does not hold governmental office and is not a Front Bench spokesperson in the Opposition. ...
Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) is the title given to any one of the 129 individuals elected to serve in the Scottish Parliament. ...
The United Kingdom general election of 2005 was held on Thursday, 5 May 2005 and won by the Labour Party, led by Tony Blair. ...
Nicol Stephen (born 23 March 1960) is Deputy First Minister of Scotland, leader of the Scottish Liberal Democrats, and a Member of the Scottish Parliament for Aberdeen South. ...
Affiliation with the Church of Scotland Wallace is also an elder of the Church of Scotland, attending St Magnus Cathedral in Kirkwall, Orkney. A religious elder (in Greek, presbuteros) is valued for his or her wisdom, in part for their age, by the logic that the older one is then the more one is likely to know. ...
The Church of Scotland (CofS sometimes known as the Kirk) is the national church of Scotland. ...
See Also Dewar Government Donald Dewar, Scotlands first First Minister, obtained the Scottish Parliaments approval to the first slate of members of the Scottish Executive and Junior Scottish Ministers on 19 May 1999. ...
External links
The Deputy First Minister of Scotland is, as the name suggests, the Deputy to the First Minister of Scotland. ...
Nicol Stephen (born 23 March 1960) is Deputy First Minister of Scotland, leader of the Scottish Liberal Democrats, and a Member of the Scottish Parliament for Aberdeen South. ...
|
Feeds |
Contact