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Lib Dems announce shadow team Print E-mail
Thursday, 24 May 2007

Scottish Liberal Democrat leader Nicol Stephen has finally appointed a team of spokespeople to shadow the recently appointed Scottish Ministers.

The Liberal Democrats are the last major party to announce their shadow ministerial team.

Unsurprisingly, Stephen will shadow First Minister Alex Salmond. Tavish Scott will shadow the Cabinet Secretary for Finance and Sustainable Growth, John Swinney.

Jeremy Purvis will take on the portfolio of Education and Lifelong Learning, as well as Children and Young People, shadowing Fiona Hyslop, and Ross Finnie, Environment and Rural Affairs Minister in the last Executive, will take on Health and Wellbeing, shadowing Deputy First Minister Nicola Sturgeon.

Margaret Smith will shadow Cabinet Secretary for Justice Kenny MacASkill and Mike Rumbles will shadow Cabinet Secretary for Rural Affairs and the Environment Richard Lochhead.

Other spokespeople are John Farquhar Munro on Gaelic and Highland culture; Liam McArthur on enterprise, energy and tourism; Alison McInnes on transport, infrastructure and climate change; Hugh O’Donnell on schools and skills; Jamie Stone on public health; Jim Tolson on communities and sport; Mike Pringle on public safety; and Jim Hume on the environment.

Former Deputy Education Minister Robert Brown will be take on parliamentary business, shadowing Bruce Crawford. Iain Smith will be convener of the Parliamentary Party, and Alison McInnes its secretary. In addition Mike Pringle MSP will serve as a member of the Scottish Parliament Corporate Body.

Michael Moore MP continues as the Depute Leader of the Scottish Liberal Democrats and Jo Swinson MP continues to serve as the Liberal Democrat Shadow Scottish Secretary in the House of Commons.

Stephen said: "The Scottish Liberal Democrat parliamentary team are young, energetic and forward-looking. My goal is for the Liberal Democrats to be the most effective campaigning political party in Scotland.

"The Liberal Democrats in Scotland have grown steadily since the establishment of the Scottish Parliament in 1999. In this month’s elections we got more votes in the constituency election than we have ever got before.

"As a party we are ambitious and I am determined that we can make progress across Scotland in the forthcoming General Election and build on that for the 2011 Scottish Parliament elections."
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