Roseanna cunningham biography
- Cunningham was born on 27 July 1951 in Glasgow to Catherine and Hugh Cunningham, and spent her early years living in East Lothian and Edinburgh.
- Roseanna Cunningham was born in Glasgow in 1951 but spent most of her early years in Edinburgh and East Lothian.
- Roseanna Cunningham (born 27 Julie 1951 in Glesga), is a Scots politician, an a Commissioner tae the Scots Pairlament, representin the Scots National Pairty.
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Roseanna Cunningham
Roseanna Cunningham was born in Glasgow in 1951 but spent most of her early years in Edinburgh and East Lothian. In 1960, she travelled to Australia with her family and subsequently completed her schooling in Fremantle, Western Australia and obtained her first university degree from University of Western Australia. She became interested in politics while still a teenager and in fact first joined the SNP in 1969 as an overseas member. Ms Cunningham returned to Scotland in 1976 and, within only a few months of her arrival, was working full time at SNP HQ, while also being involved in branch and constituency politics in Edinburgh. In 1980, she returned to university in Edinburgh and obtained a Law Degree followed by a Diploma in Legal Practice from Aberdeen University. From her graduation in 1983 to 1988, she worked as a solicitor in local government. After a brief period in private practice, she became a member of the Faculty of Advocates. She was elected to the House of Commons in the Perth and Kinross by-election in 1995, was re-elected in 1997 and subsequentl
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Cunningham, Roseanna (1951–)
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Roseanna Cunningham: ‘Scotland woke up’ after devolution
The “inexorable rise of the SNP” has “completely shifted” the political landscape over the last two decades, according to Scotland’s longest-serving parliamentarian.
Roseanna Cunningham is one of the party’s most high-profile MSPs to announce her departure from the Scottish Parliament, after a political career that began in 1995 when she won the Perth and Kinross by-election and was elected MP.
The veteran politician would later set her sights on a career inside the Scottish Parliament, when she became the MSP for Perth.
Over the last 21 years, the MSP, who has represented Perthshire South and Kinross-shire since constituency changes that year, claims to have witnessed an “enormous sea change” towards the SNP, with the Scottish Parliament a “massive contributor to that happening”.
The 69-year-old revealed that at the beginning of the year she had hoped to seek re-election for the seat she has represented for more than two decades but the Covid-19
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