Calum MacDonald (politician)
| Calum MacDonald | |
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| Member of Parliament for Western Isles |
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In office 11 June 1987 – 11 April 2005 |
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| Preceded by | Donald Stewart |
| Succeeded by | Angus MacNeil |
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7 May 1956 Stornoway |
| Nationality | British |
| Political party | Labour |
| Alma mater | University of Edinburgh, University of California, Los Angeles |
Calum Alistair MacDonald or Calum Alasdair Domhnallach (born 7 May 1956, Stornoway) was Labour Member of Parliament (MP) for the Western Isles from 1987 until he was defeated by the Scottish National Party in the British General Election of 2005.
He was born on 7 May 1956 and brought up on the Isle of Lewis. Educated at the Bayble School in Point, Outer Hebrides and Nicolson Institute, Stornoway, he went on to graduate from the University of Edinburgh with MA Honours in History and Politics.
During the 1980s he was a Teaching Fellow at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) for three years where he also gained his PhD in Political Philosophy. He returned to Britain to help out with the family kitchen and bathroom fittings business.
His political interests are wide-ranging. MacDonald’s published journalism (The Independent, The Daily Telegraph, the Glasgow Herald and the New Statesman) include articles on: Northern Ireland; the Balkans; Russia; links between Labour and the Liberal Democrats; Voting Reform; the Debate on Clause 4, etc. He was an early advocate of European defence co-operation, in "A New Model Army" (Fabian Discussion Paper, 1991) and "European Security at the Crossroads" (in B Crawford and P Schulze, Ed, European Dilemmas after Maastricht, Centre for German and European Studies UC Berkeley, 1993).
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