Ian Jenkins (politician)

Ian Jenkins (* in Rothesay ) is a Scottish politician and member of the Liberal Democrats.

Jenkins was 1964-1970 worked as a teacher at Clydebank High School in Clydebank and then moved as an English teacher at the Peebles High School in Peebles südschottischen.

Political career

In the 1970s, Jenkins joined the Liberal Party in 1988, with the Social Democratic Party joined forces with the Liberal Democrats. In the first Scottish Parliament elections in 1999, Jenkins applied for the direct mandate of the constituency Tweeddale, Ettrick and Lauderdale. He received a wide margin the largest share of the vote and pulled so into the newly created Scottish Parliament. During this time he was party spokesman for the Liberal Democrats on education. At the 2003 parliamentary elections Jenkins no longer went to and difference from the end of the legislature from the parliament from.