Drew Hendry
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Drew Hendry MP |
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| SNP Spokesperson for Transport | |
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Assumed office 20 May 2015 |
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| Preceded by | Position established |
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Member of Parliament for Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey |
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Assumed office 8 May 2015 |
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| Preceded by | Danny Alexander |
| Majority | 10,809 (18.85%) |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
Andrew Egan Henderson Hendry 21 May 1964 Edinburgh, Scotland |
| Political party | Scottish National Party |
Andrew Egan Henderson Hendry, (born 21 May 1964) known as Drew Hendry, is a Scottish National Party (SNP) politician who is the Member of Parliament (MP) for Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey. He was a councillor in Highland from 2007-15 and was Council Leader from 2012−15. He is the SNP Transport spokesperson in the House of Commons.
He grew up in Edinburgh. Although as a teenager he was too young to vote in the Scottish referendum of 1979 he feels this sparked his interest in politics and representation. He worked for Electrolux as head of sales and then as a senior director. He lived and worked in Edinburgh until 1999 when he and his wife moved to Tore in the Black Isle. In 1999 he founded a company, teclan ltd, in Inverness, which delivers digital marketing services for online retailers and ecommerce merchants.
Hendry was first elected in the 2007 Local Elections for the Aird and Loch Ness Ward with 892 first preferences taking the third seat out of four. He was appointed leader of the SNP Highland Council group in 2011, replacing John Finnie who had become a list MSP for the Highlands and Islands. In September 2007, he was appointed to the board of the Cairngorms National Park Authority.
He was selected to stand as one of the SNP's candidates for the six Scotland seats in the 2009 European Parliament election, although he was fourth on their list and the outcome of the voting was the SNP returned two MEPs.
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