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Swinney was previously a Member of Parliament ( MP ) for Tayside North in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom, before taking the same seat in the Scottish Parliament's 1999, 2003 and 2007 elections.
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Swinney and was
In 2000, Swinney was elected Leader ( or National Convenor ) of the SNP, becoming Leader of the Opposition in the Scottish Parliament.
Born in Edinburgh, Swinney was educated at Forrester High School and the University of Edinburgh, graduating in 1986 as a Master of Arts with Honours in Politics.
Prior to his election to the UK Parliament in 1997, Swinney was employed as Strategic Planning Principal with Scottish Amicable and was a business and economic development consultant for five years.
Swinney was a research officer for the Scottish Coal Project ( 1987 – 1988 ), a senior management consultant with Development Options ( 1988 – 1992 ), and a strategic planning principal with Scottish Amicable ( 1992 – 1997 ).
Every time he was called to speak by the Deputy Speaker of the House of Commons Sir Alan Haselhurst, he was referred to as ' Mr. John Sweeney ', although Swinney noticeably never corrected this.
The leadership contest in 2000, caused by Alex Salmond's decision to step down as party leader, was marked by serious argument between the SNP Gradualist wing of the party, who in the main supported Swinney and SNP Fundamentalist wing, who in the main supported Alex Neil.
After discussing this with various SNP members he was persuaded to contest the leadership himself and launched a challenge against the SNP leader, John Swinney.
However, the following year Swinney resigned after sustained media speculation that he was unsuitable for the role.
He was a prominent backer of Dr Bill Wilson who stood against John Swinney for the SNP leadership in 2003.
He was suspended from the Scottish National Party on 25 April 2004 after publicly criticising John Swinney, and was expelled from the SNP on 10 July 2004, soon after Swinney had resigned.
After John Swinney was elected leader of the SNP in 2000, Russell became Shadow Minister for Education and Culture, a post he held until 2003.
In 2000 John Swinney MSP was elected leader, defeating Alex Neil MSP by 547 votes to 268 in a hotly contested leadership election to replace Alex Salmond as National Convenor.
Wilson was broadly critical of what he argued were the centralising tendencies of the Swinney leadership, as well as a drift to the centre ground of politics away from the SNP's traditional position on the left of Scottish politics.
Paterson was one of the heaviest critics of the leadership style of John Swinney, and in the aftermath of the 2004 European election he openly called for Swinney's resignation, which happened shortly afterwards.
It was home to the University of Missouri – Kansas City Kangaroos basketball team until they moved their games to the Swinney Recreation Center on campus in fall 2010.
This living accommodation for 25 students was formally inaugurated on 1 July by Henry Hyndman, of the Social Democratic Federation, in the presence of Dadabhai Naoroji, Lala Lajpat Rai, Madam Cama, Mr. Swinney ( of the London Positivist Society ), Mr. Harry Quelch ( the editor of the Social Democratic Federation's Justice ) and Charlotte Despard, the Irish Republican and suffragette.
Swinney and previously
John Ramsey Swinney ( born 13 April 1964 ) is the Cabinet Secretary for Finance, Employment and Sustainable Growth in the Scottish Government and the Scottish National Party Member of the Scottish Parliament for Perthshire North, having previously represented North Tayside ( 1999 – 2011 ).
Swinney and Parliament
After the SNP emerged as the largest party following the 2007 Scottish Parliament Election, Swinney led coalition talks with the Scottish Green Party.
As response to Swinney not notifying the Scottish Parliament that he had let the Scottish Variable Rate lapse due to not funding this tax mechanism, the Scottish Parliament voted to censure him and called his actions " an abuse of power ".< ref >
His 16, 812 votes represents the largest share of votes cast in a Scottish Parliament constituency with 67. 24 % but trails the actual votes of others such as Alex Salmond ( 19, 533 ), John Swinney ( 18, 219 ), Fiona Hyslop ( 17, 027 ), Willie Coffey ( 16, 964 ), Fergus Ewing ( 16, 870 ) and Richard Lochhead ( 16, 817 ).
Swinney and MP
In 1983 he became MP for the newly formed Tayside North, a seat he held until being defeated by the Scottish National Party's John Swinney in 1997.
Swinney and for
The following year he stood unsuccessfully for the leadership of the SNP against John Swinney in a hard fought contest.
Though retaining its two seats at the 2004 European elections, in a smaller field of 7 ( Scotland up until then had 8 MEPs ) the Scottish press and certain elements within the Fundamentalist wing of the Party depicted the result as a disaster for the SNP putting further pressure on Swinney who resigned soon afterwards on 22 June 2004.
Many YSI activists have since risen to prominence in the SNP, including Nicola Sturgeon the Deputy First Minister of Scotland, former party leader John Swinney, the Cabinet Secretary for Finance and Sustainable Growth and Fiona Hyslop, the Cabinet Secretary for Education and Lifelong Learning.
The level of central government support for each authority is determined by the Cabinet Secretary for Finance and Sustainable Growth, currently John Swinney MSP, and is distributed by the Finance and Central Services Department of the Scottish Government.
John Swinney announced his resignation as leader of the SNP on 22 June 2004, and on the same day Roseanna Cunningham announced that she would be a candidate in the subsequent election for the party leadership.
Before becoming an MEP he had been a successful election agent for John Swinney and Allan Macartney, a District and Regional Councillor and the first elected leader of the unitary Angus Council after its foundation in 1995 / 6.
* Harry L. Swinney, ' 61-Director of the Center for Nonlinear Dynamics at the University of Texas at Austin.
In 2004, she ran as a candidate for Deputy Leader of the SNP after the resignation of Leader John Swinney propelled Deputy Leader Roseanna Cunningham into the contest to replace him.
" The Scottish National Party's ( SNP ) John Swinney described the report as a " humiliation " for Labour saying that it left their policy on student financing in " tartan tatters ".
He is currently the Shadow Cabinet Secretary for Finance, Employment and Sustainable Growth, shadowing John Swinney
Swinney and Tayside
The Scottish Parliamentary constituency is Tayside North, represented by John Swinney of the Scottish National Party.
Swinney and North
* April 15, 1908: Asheville, North Carolina Dr. C. O. Swinney shot and fatally wounded his 16-year-old daughter Nellie in a reception room at Normal and Collegiate Institute.
Swinney and taking
At the party conference of that year the election took place with Swinney receiving 577 of the delegates votes that were cast and Wilson taking 111.
Swinney and Scottish
Swinney won the contest but the media raised some doubt about his ability to lead the party following poor SNP performances in the 2001 UK General Election and the 2003 Scottish Parliamentary Election.
Swinney and 2003
In the leadership contest that ensued at the SNP's 2003 Conference Swinney received 577 votes from those delegates voting to Wilson's 111 to remain leader.
Swinney and .
* Youell Swinney, the only major suspect in the Texarkana Phantom slayings, hailed from Cleveland County.
Swinney is married and has three children.
Swinney joined the SNP at the age of 15, citing his anger at the way in which Scotland had been portrayed by television commentators at the Commonwealth Games.
However, Alex Salmond stated that Swinney would have " a work rate the size of Jupiter " to handle his brief.
In the 2000 SNP Leadership campaign the FSN supported Alex Neil who lost to John Swinney.
This period marked her becoming less influential with the leadership of the SNP, firstly under Alex Salmond and then John Swinney, having been viewed as being in the SNP Fundamentalist mould and having supported Alex Neil in the party leadership election in 2000.
In 2004, after John Swinney stood down as SNP party leader, Kenny MacAskill backed the joint leadership ticket of Alex Salmond and Nicola Sturgeon.
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