Margaret Curran

Margaret Curran (* November 24, 1958 ) is a Scottish politician and member of the Labour Party.

Curran visited the Our Lady and St Francis School in Glasgow and studied at the University of Glasgow history and economic history. At Dundee College, she also became a certified degree in Community Education. Between 1989 and 1999, Curran worked as a Lecturer in Community Education at the University of Strathclyde. Curran is married and the mother of two sons.

Curran appeared for the first time at the Scottish Parliament elections 1999 to national elections. She was a candidate for the Labour Party in the constituency of Glasgow Baillieston and won the mandate well ahead of the candidate SNP. As a result, they moved into the newly created Scottish Parliament and was initially October 2000 to May 2002 Deputy Minister for Social Justice and was subsequently sworn directly to the Minister in the same department. In the 2003 parliamentary elections Curran defended her constituency and was then appointed as Minister of the Church Body. As of October 2004, she held the position of Minister for Parliamentary Business, which she held until the end of the legislature. Once again defended Curran its mandate in the parliamentary elections of 2007.

Mid-2008, joined the Labour MP of the British constituency Glasgow East, David Marshall, returned for health reasons. Curran ran as a successor for the first time for a seat in the British House of Commons, but was defeated almost the SNP candidate John Mason. At the general election in 2010 Curran joined again at Glasgow East. This time she could clearly decide the constituency for himself and moved into the British House of Commons. For the Scottish Parliament elections in 2011 Curran did not occur to.