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Ian Murray (British politician)

Ian Murray
MP
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Shadow Secretary of State for Scotland
In office
11 May 2015 – 26 June 2016
Leader Harriet Harman (Acting)
Jeremy Corbyn
Preceded by Margaret Curran
Succeeded by Dave Anderson
Member of Parliament
for Edinburgh South
Assumed office
6 May 2010
Preceded by Nigel Griffiths
Majority 2,637 (5.4%)
Personal details
Born (1976-08-10) 10 August 1976 (age 40)
Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
Political party Labour
Spouse(s) Hannah Woolfson
Alma mater University of Edinburgh

Ian Murray (born 10 August 1976) is a British Labour Party politician who has represented Edinburgh South as Member of Parliament (MP) since the 2010 general election.

He served as an Edinburgh City Councillor for Liberton & Gilmerton Ward from 2003 to 2010, before his Westminster election as an Edinburgh MP.

Since the 2015 general election, Murray has been the only Labour Party MP representing a Scottish constituency in the House of Commons.

Murray was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, to a cooper father and shop worker mother in 1976. Brought up in the Wester Hailes area of Edinburgh, he attended Dumbryden Primary School, then Wester Hailes High School, before going up to read Social Policy and Law at the University of Edinburgh's Academy of Government. He graduated with an honours degree (BA) at the age of 20; whilst at university he supported his studies with part-time job in a local fish & chip shop before setting up and running a pizza delivery service.

After graduation, Murray worked for Royal Blind in pensions management, before being head-hunted by an Edinburgh-based internet television station (Worldart.com) during the dot-com boom where he helped to build a new online TV station. Despite his efforts, the company ran out of funding and was made redundant; he then founded his own event management business (100 mph Events Ltd).


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