Murdo Fraser
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Murdo Fraser MSP |
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| Deputy Convener of the Scottish Parliament Public Audit Committee | |
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Assumed office 20 June 2007 |
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| Preceded by | Andrew Welsh (as Deputy Convener of the Audit Committee) |
| Deputy Leader of the Scottish Conservatives | |
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In office 31 October 2005 – 10 November 2011 |
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| Leader | Annabel Goldie |
| Succeeded by | Jackson Carlaw |
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Member of the Scottish Parliament for Mid Scotland and Fife |
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Assumed office 10 August 2001 |
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5 September 1965 Inverness, Scotland |
| Nationality | Scottish |
| Political party | Scottish Conservative Party |
| Alma mater | University of Aberdeen |
| Occupation | Solicitor |
| Religion | Church of Scotland |
| Website | Conservative Profile |
Murdo MacKenzie Fraser (born 5 September 1965) is a Scottish politician and the former Deputy leader of the Scottish Conservative Party in the Scottish Parliament. He has been a Member of the Scottish Parliament for the Mid Scotland and Fife region since 2001. He is currently the Conservative shadow spokesman for Finance.
Born in 1965, he was educated at Inverness Royal Academy. He studied law at the University of Aberdeen, and was chairman of the Scottish Young Conservatives from 1989 to 1992.
After undertaking a postgraduate Diploma in Legal Studies, he worked as a solicitor in Aberdeen and Edinburgh, latterly as an associate with Ketchen and Stevens WS in Edinburgh, specialising in commercial law. Fraser lives with his wife and two children in Perthshire.
At the 1999 Scottish Parliamentary Election, he was an unsuccessful candidate for North Tayside, as he was in 2003 and 2007. He stood unsuccessfully for the House of Commons in the 1997 General Election in East Lothian, and in 2001 for the UK Parliament's North Tayside seat.
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