Annabel Goldie
Annabel Goldie, Baroness Goldie ( born February 27, 1950 in Glasgow ) is a Scottish politician and member of the Conservative Party.
Life
Goldie attended the Greenock Academy and then studied law at the University of Strathclyde. Between 1978 and 2006 she worked as a lawyer. Goldie is not married. She is a member of the Scottish Association of Jurists.
Political career
1992 Goldie deputy chairman of the Scottish Conservative and was following the resignation Michael Hirst's 1997 party chairman. For the first time she joined the British general election, 1992 to national elections. But in her constituency Renfrew West and Inverclyde, she received only the second highest number of votes and thus failed to reach the British House of Commons.
In the first Scottish Parliament elections in 1999, Goldie applied for the direct mandate of the constituency West Renfrewshire, but got behind the Labour candidate Patricia Godman and the SNP politician Colin Campbell only the third highest number of votes and thus missed the direct mandate of the constituency. As Goldie but was set to the first rank of the Regional Evaluation of the Conservative Party for choosing Region West of Scotland, she received as a result of the election results of the two list seats for the Conservative Party in this election region and moved into the newly created Scottish Parliament. As a result, she was elected deputy faction leader and ultimately served until 2006 as a party spokesperson on finance, business and industry. In the following elections in 2003 and 2007, they missed each the direct mandate of West Renfrewshire, although she was able to expand its share of votes in both cases. However, Goldie defended her list each mandate for West of Scotland. Between 2003 and 2005 acted as Goldie Party spokeswoman for Justice. After David McLetchies resignation as party leader in 2005, Goldie was chosen as the only candidate unanimously to the new party leader. West Renfrewshire, took for Goldie since 1999, was disbanded as part of the constituency reform of 2011. At the 2011 parliamentary elections Goldie ran about in the newly created constituency of Renfrewshire North and West. However, the direct mandate went to Derek Mackay of the SNP. So Goldie received for the fourth time in a row a list of the Conservative mandate and remained so even in the fourth term of the Scottish Parliament. In November 2011, Goldie resigned as party leader. As the successor Ruth Davidson has been elected. Currently, Goldie is the party spokesperson on culture and communities.
On October 3, 2013 Goldie was raised to life peer with the title Baroness Goldie, of Bishopton in the County of Renfrewshire, and thus a member of the House of Lords.