Pamela Nash | |
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Member of Parliament for Airdrie and Shotts | |
In office 6 May 2010 –30 March 2015 | |
Preceded by | John Reid |
Succeeded by | Neil Gray |
Personal details | |
Born | [1] Airdrie,North Lanarkshire,Scotland | 24 June 1984
Nationality | British |
Political party | Labour |
Pamela Nash (born 24 June 1984) [2] is a British Labour Party politician,who was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Airdrie and Shotts between 2010 and 2015. She is currently the Chief Executive of Scotland in Union,a campaign group launched in March 2015 to help keep Scotland within the United Kingdom. During her time in Parliament,she was the youngest MP in the House of Commons.
She is the Labour candidate for Motherwell and Wishaw for the next UK general election.
Pamela Nash was born in Airdrie,North Lanarkshire,and educated locally at St Margaret's High School,Airdrie and Chapelhall. Nash lost her mother and stepfather when she was 17. [3] [4]
She spent her first summer after high school volunteering at a school in Nyeri,Kenya,and followed this up with a placement in Uganda during her time at university. [5] She studied politics at the University of Glasgow,specialising in human rights and international development. [5]
Nash was the parliamentary officer for the Young Fabians and a member of the Scottish Youth Parliament,where she served on the executive committee and was the convenor of the External Affairs Committee. She interned for John Reid for one year as his constituency assistant and subsequently was employed for a period of three years as his parliamentary assistant. [5]
Nash was selected as the Labour Party candidate from an all-women shortlist which,at the time,proved to be a contentious issue. [6] The constituency chairman,Brian Brady resigned over the issue. Nevertheless,80% of the constituency Labour Party took part in the selection process. [7] She was elected as the Member of Parliament for Airdrie and Shotts in 2010,taking over from John Reid. She had a majority of 12,408 votes over the SNP candidate,and at the age of 25, [1] was the youngest MP in the House of Commons,also called Baby of the House. [8] Then-Scottish Labour Party leader,Iain Gray said she had a "big future in Scottish politics". [9]
Nash was the Parliamentary Private Secretary to the then Shadow Secretary of State for International Development,Jim Murphy. She was previously Parliamentary Private Secretary to Margaret Curran as Shadow Secretary of State for Scotland and to Vernon Coaker as Shadow Secretary of State for Northern Ireland. She served on the Finance Bill 2011 Public Bill Committee. [10] Nash was a member of the Science and Technology Select Committee, [11] the Scottish Affairs Select Committee and the Parliamentary Space Committee.
Following the death of the MP for Inverclyde,David Cairns,she was elected as the Chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Group for HIV and AIDS. [12] She was also the Treasurer of the All-Party Parliamentary Group for Multiple Sclerosis [13] and the Secretary of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Sustainable Housing. [14] Nash also founded and chaired the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Youth Unemployment. [15]
In September 2010,Nash decided to support David Miliband in the Labour Party leadership election. [16] On 2 December 2010,Nash took part in a BBC debate on age differences in politics and the wider society with the Conservative MP Bill Cash. [17] Nash pledged to oppose the repeal of the Hunting Act 2004 which banned hunting of wild mammals with hounds. [18]
Nash has campaigned on issues such as Blacklisting in employment, [19] breaches of the National Minimum Wage,closure of local police stations and the Bedroom tax. [20] [21]
Nash was narrowly reselected by the Airdrie and Shotts CLP to contest her seat at the 2015 UK general election. A total of 55 members voted for her to be reselected,out of 101 members who attended the October 2013 ballot,with 37 opposed. [22] [23] At the 2015 general election however,Nash lost her seat to Neil Gray of the Scottish National Party,who won by a majority of 8,779 votes. [24]
In August 2017,it was announced that Nash would be the next Chief Executive of Scotland in Union,in succession to Graeme Pearson. [25]
In 2021,Nash attempted to be selected as the Labour candidate for the Airdrie and Shotts parliamentary by-election,however she was unsuccessful losing the nomination to Kenneth Stevenson. However,despite a swing towards Labour,the SNP retained the seat. [26] [27]
On 20 April 2023,Nash announced to be the official Scottish Labour prospective parliamentary candidate for Motherwell and Wishaw at the next UK general election. [28]
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