WHO'S WHO
Willie Rennie MP
Lib Dem majority: 1,800 (5%)
Constituency: Dunfermline & West Fife
Region: Scotland
PA Number: 209
Address:
2nd Floor
1 High Street
Dunfermline
KY12 7DL
Tel: (01383) 841700
Fax: (01383) 841793
Email: info@dunfermlinelibdems.org.uk
Web: http://www.dunfermlinelibdems.org.uk/
Parliamentary Experience: 2008- Defence Spokesperson December 2007- Chair of Parliamentary Campaigns Team, 2006- Shadow Defence spokesperson
Seat:Dunfermline & West Fife |
Liberal Democrats12,391 (36%) |
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Turnout:34,578 (49%) |
Conservative2,702 (8%) |
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Swing16.2% Lab to Lib Dem |
Labour10,591 (31%) |
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Nationalist7,261 (21%) |
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BIOGRAPHY
Willie Rennie entered
Parliament at his first attempt at a by-election in February 2006, gaining this
seat from the Labour Party.
A Fifer born and bred, Willie Rennie read biology at the University of Paisley. He is a member of Carnegie Harriers and runner up in the Scottish Coal-Carrying Championship.
While a student, he ran the Scottish Young Liberal Democrats and after graduation went on to work for the party in Cornwall. Willie was Chief Executive of the Scottish Liberal Democrats and the Party's Chief of Staff at the Scottish Parliament between 1997 and 2001. Before his election he was account director for a Scottish communications firm advising charities (including the Royal Society of Chemistry and Asthma UK) and businesses; he was also adviser to Fife's Lib Dem Council Group.
As an MP his work on local issues includes: the campaigns against the £4 toll proposed for the Forth Road Bridge and for improvements to the cancer service at Queen Margaret Hospital.
He is a member of the Shadow Defence team and was made Chair of the Parliamentary Campaigns team by Nick Clegg in December 2007 and also named as a Parliamentary Whip by Clegg in 2008.
