Ian Murray (Scottish politician)
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Ian Murray MP |
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| Shadow Secretary of State for Scotland | |
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In office 11 May 2015 – 26 June 2016 |
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| Leader |
Harriet Harman (Acting) Jeremy Corbyn |
| Preceded by | Margaret Curran |
| Succeeded by | Dave Anderson |
| Member of Parliament for Edinburgh South |
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Assumed office 6 May 2010 |
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| Preceded by | Nigel Griffiths |
| Majority | 2,637 (5.4%) |
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10 August 1976 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 the only Scottish Labour MP to retain his seat in the 2015 General Election.
Murray was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, UK 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. Upon completing his secondary school education, Murray read Social Policy and Law at the University of Edinburgh's Academy of Government. He graduated with an honours degree (BA) aged twenty. When studying at university, he supported had a 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). Murray also organised a student exchange programme in Nepal to fund school buildings and staff. In 2003, Murray stood in the council elections for Liberton winning the seat for Labour at the age of 27; he later represented the larger Liberton & Gilmerton Ward from 2007-2010.
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