Christine Jardine

Christine Jardine MP
Official Parliamentary portrait, June 2017
Member of Parliament for Edinburgh West
Incumbent
Assumed office 9 June 2017
Preceded by	Michelle Thomson
Majority	2,988 (5.7%)
Personal details
Born	Christine Anne Jardine 1960 (age 57–58)
Political party	Liberal Democrats
Website	www.libdems.org.uk/christine_jardine

Christine Anne Jardine (born November 1960) is a Scottish Liberal Democrat politician. She was elected as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Edinburgh West in 2017.

Jardine was educated at Braidfield High School and the University of Glasgow, where she graduated with a MA(Hons).

She is a former journalist, who worked for BBC Scotland and was editor of the Press Association in Scotland. She also taught journalism at the Universities of Strathclyde, Robert Gordons and West of Scotland.

In 2011 she was appointed Scotland media adviser to the Coalition Government.

During her career she has worked in Edinburgh, Aberdeen, Inverness and Glasgow.

Christine was married for 30 years to Calum Macdonald, the Digital Editor for the Herald and Times Group. He died during the 2017 General Election campaign. They have one daughter.

Jardine was elected for the Edinburgh West constituency in the 2017 UK general election, succeeding independent MP Michelle Thomson who had been elected as a member of the SNP. Jardine received 18,108 votes and 34.4% of the overall vote.

She is the Liberal Democrats Scotland Spokesperson and sits on the Scottish Affairs Committee at Westminster. She also speaks on Digital, Culture, Media and Sport in the House of Commons.

Since her election, Jardine has:

She has also spoken out against online abuse, having suffered during the campaign.