Michael Moore (British politician)
Michael Kevin Moore ( born June 3 1965 in Dundonald, Belfast, Northern Ireland) is a British politician and the Liberal Democrats since May 2010 Scotland minister ( Secretary of State for Scotland).
Biography
After visiting the Strathallan School in Forgandenny and Jedburgh Grammar School studied the son of a military chaplains Political Science and History at the University of Edinburgh and graduated in 1987 with a Master of Arts ( MA Politics and Modern History ) from.
Subsequently, he was initially for one year Research Associate of the liberal democratic House of Representatives Archy Kirkwood, before he joined the staff at the auditing and consulting firm Coopers & Lybrand. There he rose to the first certified accountants and was thereafter from 1993 to 1997 manager in the finance department of the company.
His political career began in 1997 when it was first a member of the lower house (House of Commons ) was selected as the candidate of the Liberal Democrats and initially. , Succeeding David Steel representative of the interests of the constituency Tweeddale, Ettrick and Lauderdale Since the resolution of this constituency in 2005, he is representative of the newly created constituency of Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk.
Immediately after the election, he was first appointed as a member of the Shadow Cabinet, his party, and was initially transport policy spokesman.
In the first elections to the Scottish Parliament on 12 May 1999 he was chairman of the election campaign, the Liberal Democrats and had this feature in the Scottish Parliament elections in 2003. During the elections the party won each 17 seats and thus became the fourth strongest political force after the Labour Party, Scottish National Party and Conservative & Unionist Party.
In addition, he was governor from 2000 to 2003 and Vice Chairman of the Westminster Foundation for Democracy, a foundation of support for democratic projects in Africa and other parts of the world.
He was then appointed to the foreign policy spokesman in the shadow cabinet of the Liberal Democrats in 2001. In October 2002, he was also Deputy Chairman of the Scottish Liberal Democrats and has held this position until September 2010. Additionally, he served from 2003 to 2004 as Parliamentary guest scholar ( Parliamentary Visiting Fellow ) at St Antony's College, University of Oxford, and from 2004 to 2010 a member of the Council of the Royal Institute of International Affairs, Chatham House today. Between 2005 and 2006 he was a defense policy spokesman for his party.
Following the resignation of Charles Kennedy as leader of the Liberal Democrats on 7 January 2006, he was chief of staff of the successor candidate Menzies Campbell and from that after his election re-appointed to the foreign policy spokesman in the shadow cabinet of the Liberal Democrats as the new party chairman on 2 March 2006, before he between 2007 and 2010 spokesperson for International Development, and until October 2008 was at the same time from March for Scotland and Northern Ireland.
On 29 May 2010 he was appointed by Prime Minister David Cameron to Scotland minister in his cabinet, and thus the successor to Danny Alexander, the successor of David Laws as Chief Secretary of the Treasury, after only seventeen days in office.