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Former Pupil Biographies
Chris Law (1969 - current)
Christopher Murray Alexander Law (born 21 October 1969) is the Scottish
National Party Member of Parliament for Dundee West, having been elected
in the 2015 general election. He was elected to a seat that had been held
by Labour for the previous 65 years.
Law was educated at Madras College. He trained as a French chef and
then went on to the University of St Andrews where he received a degree in
Cultural and Social Anthropology. He developed a love of India while at
university and for ten years he operated a tourism business providing
tours of the Himalayas on 1950s motorcycyles. For the past decade he has
operated a business as a financial advisor in Dundee. |
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Law was a prominent Yes campaigner during the Scottish
independence referendum, 2014 and was the founder of the Spirit of
Independence road tour of communities that toured Scotland in a
refurbished Green Goddess fire engine.
He was chosen to contest the Dundee West constituency in the 2015 general
election and received 27,684 votes – 61.9% – as he took the seat from
Labour with a 17,092 majority. In 2016 he is a member of the Scottish
Affairs Committee.
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