Colin Smyth

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Colin Smyth
MSP
Member of the Scottish Parliament
for South Scotland
Assumed office
6 May 2016
Personal details
Political party Scottish Labour Party

Colin Smyth MSP is a Scottish politician who is a Scottish Labour Party Member of Scottish Parliament for the South Scotland region, elected in the Scottish Parliament election, 2016.[1] He was general secretary of the Scottish Labour Party 2008−2012.

Political career

Smyth previously worked as a teacher, becoming a Labour party organiser in 2003.[2] In 2008 he was appointed general secretary of the Scottish Labour Party, succeeding Lesley Quinn.[3] In September 2012, Scottish Labour announced that Smyth would step down from the position at the party’s conference in the following month.

In 2007 he was elected to Dumfries and Galloway Council, representing the Nith Ward. He was re-elected to this position in 2012.[4]

References

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