Angus MacKay (politician)
- Angus MacKay (politician)
Angus MacKay (born 1964, Edinburgh) is a Scottish Labour politician, and was Member of the Scottish Parliament for Edinburgh South constituency from 1999 to 2003.
He was made a deputy minister in the first Scottish Executive. After the death of Donald Dewar in 2000 he was campaign manager for Henry McLeish who went on to succeed Dewar as First Minister. McLeish appointed MacKay as Minister of Finance, replacing Jack McConnell.
McLeish resigned in 2001, and Jack McConnell was elected as his replacement unopposed. In McConnell's first cabinet reshuffle MacKay was sacked.
In the 2003 election he was defeated by the Liberal Democrat Mike Pringle. He did not stand for re-election in the 2007 election.
External links
* [http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/corporate/history/whisp/whisp-02/wh106-01.htm Angus MacKay MSP] biography at the Scottish Parliament website
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