Peter Wishart

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name = Peter Wishart
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constituency_MP = Perth and North Perthshire
Tayside North (2001-2005)
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term_start = 7 June 2001
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majority = 1,521 (3.3%)
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Name = Peter Wishart


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Peter Wishart (born 9 March 1962) is the Member of Parliament for Perth and North Perthshire as part of the Scottish National Party (SNP). He is also a notable musician chiefly associated with the band Runrig.

He was first elected to the House of Commons at the 2001 general election, taking John Swinney's old seat of Tayside North. In the light of the sharp reduction in the number of Scottish MPs at Westminster, Wishart's former constituency was abolished in a radical boundary revision, and at the 2005 election he won the new constituency of Perth and North Perthshire for the SNP.

As a previous member of the band Runrig, Wishart was the first MP to have appeared on the TV show "Top of the Pops". Before Runrig, he had been in one of the lineups of Big Country. Since arriving at Westminster, he has served as the SNP's Chief Whip, in which role he has pressed the government for greater parliamentary rights, such as better representation on committees, for both the SNP and other minority parties. He has also campaigned for copyright term extension. Donnie Munro, former lead singer of Runrig was to go on to an unsuccessful political career as a Labour party candidate.

Wishart is a member of the parliamentary rock group MP4.

External links

* [http://politics.guardian.co.uk/person/0,,-7054,00.html Guardian Unlimited Politics - Ask Aristotle: Peter Wishart MP]
* [http://www.theyworkforyou.com/mp/pete_wishart/perth_and_perthshire_north TheyWorkForYou.com - Pete Wishart MP]
* [http://www.publicwhip.org.uk/mp.php?mpn=Pete_Wishart&mpc=Perth+%26amp%3B+Perthshire+North The Public Whip - Peter Wishart MP]
* [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/mpdb/html/724.stm BBC News - Peter Wishart] profile 16 March, 2006