Derek Brownlee

Derek Brownlee ( born August 10, 1974) is a Scottish politician and member of the Conservative Party.

Life

Brownlee grew up in the Scottish Borders in Selkirk. He attended the Knowepark Primary School and Selkirk High School. Then Brownlee studied law at the University of Aberdeen and then worked for various commercial enterprises.

Political career

In the parliamentary elections of 2003, Brownlee applied for the direct mandate of the constituency Tweeddale, Ettrick and Lauderdale. He received the four largest vote share and thus failed to reach the Scottish Parliament. In addition, Brownlee was set in these elections on the fifth rank of the regional election list for the election of the Conservative Region South of Scotland. Since the Conservative Party in the constituency with a direct mandate and three list seats won, he received almost no mandate through this channel. After Brownlee's party colleague David Mundell, who had received a list of mandates, could win a mandate in the British general election in 2005, he returned his list mandate for the Scottish Parliament. Brownlee moved as the next placed according to the electoral list and moved in 2005, the first in the parliament. By the end of the term he was party spokesman for finance and public institutions. In the 2007 parliamentary elections Brownlee missed again the direct mandate of Tweeddale, Ettrick and Lauderdale, but received the second- placed regional electoral list is the only list of the Conservative mandate for South of Scotland. Since the constituency Tweeddale, Ettrick and Lauderdale was dissolved in the wake of the election district reform in 2011, Brownlee candidate in the 2011 parliamentary elections in the constituency of East Lothian. He received only the third highest number of votes and was eliminated from the Scottish Parliament from.