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Kezia Alexandra Ross Dugdale (born 28 August ) is a Scottish former politician who served as Leader of the Scottish Labour Party from to A former member of the Scottish Labour Party and Co-operative Party, she was a Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) for the Lothian region from to
Born in Aberdeen and raised in Dundee, Dugdale studied law at the University of Aberdeen and Policy Studies at the University of Edinburgh, where she was a campaigns and welfare adviser.
Biography sample The Observer. The Record ultimately stepped in to fund Ms Dugdale's defence, which was successful - the judge said that while she was incorrect to imply that Mr Campbell was a homophobe, her article was protected under the principle of fair comment. Sky UK. In office 13 December — 13 JuneAfter leaving university, she worked as an election agent, political researcher and parliamentary officer. She was elected at the Scottish Parliament election on the Lothian regional list and became Deputy Leader of the Scottish Labour Party in
Dugdale was elected Leader of the Scottish Labour Party in the Scottish Labour leadership election.
She led the party into the Scottish Parliament election; where it finished third behind the Scottish National Party (SNP) and Scottish Conservatives; Dugdale failed to be elected to the Edinburgh Eastern constituency, once again being elected on the Lothian regional list. During the general election, the party held their previously sole seat and gained a further six seats from the SNP.
She resigned as leader in August to "pass on the baton" to a successor who would lead the party into the Scottish Parliament election.
After leaving frontbench politics, Dugdale worked as a columnist and appeared as a contestant on the seventeenth series of ITV reality show I'm a CelebrityGet Me Out of Here! in November She later resigned her seat and Scottish Labour membership in July and accepted the role of director of the John Smith Centre for Public Service at the University of Glasgow.
In Dugdale became Associate Director of the Centre for Public Policy at the University of Glasgow.
Early life and education
Dugdale was born in Aberdeen on 28 August She attended secondary school at Harris Academy in Dundee, where she was Head Girl. She studied law at the University of Aberdeen from until , and completed a master's degree in policy studies from until at the University of Edinburgh.
Whilst attending university, she worked as campaigns and welfare adviser for Edinburgh University Students' Association and as public affairs officer at the National Union of Students Scotland.
Early political career
Dugdale sat on Scottish Labour's Policy Forum from until , as well as serving as an election agent to both Sarah Boyack MSP and Sheila Gilmore MP.
She had also volunteered as a researcher in the parliamentary office of Pauline McNeill MSP. She worked from to for the Labour Lothian regional MSP George Foulkes, by then also a Labour life peer, as his parliamentary office manager and political adviser.
In the Scottish Parliament election, Dugdale was elected to the Scottish Parliament as Scottish Labour's second candidate on their list for the Lothian region.
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Dugdale won the Scottish Labour deputy leadership election, succeeding Anas Sarwar, and defeating Katy Clark.
As Scottish Labour leader Jim Murphy did not have a seat in the Scottish Parliament, she stood in for him at First Minister's Questions. On 13 June , she resigned from the deputy leadership in order to contest the Scottish Labour leadership election. She was succeeded by Alex Rowley after the leadership election.
Leader of the Scottish Labour Party
During the leadership election campaign, Dugdale said she would want to end the charitable status of private schools in Scotland which gives them tax breaks, a policy in her opinion unfair to state schools.
In a July televised leadership debate, she said it was wrong the vast majority of the Labour MPs abstained on the Conservative government's Welfare Reform and Work Bill in a second reading vote in the House of Commons.
Following the resignation of Lord John Sewel on 28 July , she said the House of Lords should no longer be an unelected chamber and should be moved to Glasgow. She won the leadership on 15 August, defeating Ken Macintosh.
During an August interview with The Guardian, Dugdale refused to publicly say who out of the four candidates in the UK Labour Party leadership election she supported, but did express serious doubts as to whether Jeremy Corbyn could ever become Prime Minister.
After Corbyn had been elected as Leader of the Labour Party on 13 September, she revealed for the first time, on BBC Question Time on 30 October, she had voted for Yvette Cooper.
Dugdale led Scottish Labour into the Scottish Parliament election.
Dugdale wanted to re-affirm Scottish Labour's core beliefs and convey to the electorate what the party stood for. She focused her campaign on a proposal to increase income tax to tackle underfunding of services by the Scottish National Party government, particularly in education. Meanwhile, the Scottish Conservatives' ambitions were to oppose Scottish independence and push Ruth Davidson as an effective leader opposed to the SNP's governmental agenda.
The results put Scottish Labour behind both the SNP and Scottish Conservatives, with the party falling into third place from second. The party made a net loss of 12 constituency seats, gaining only one and holding another two, but retained 21 of its 22 regional seats which assign additional members to address imbalance in constituency results.
Dugdale was once again returned as an additional member for the Lothian region, having failed to win the Edinburgh Eastern constituency from the SNP by 5, votes.
On 29 June , Dugdale called for Jeremy Corbyn to resign from his position as Leader of the Labour Party, after to Labour MPs voted no-confidence in his leadership.
She said when 80% of his own MPs no longer supported him, Corbyn could not properly function as Labour leader or Leader of the Opposition in parliament, nor could he form a potential alternative government. On 22 August, she declared her support for Owen Smith in the Labour Party leadership election but also said her position would remain tenable were Corbyn to win re-election.
After Corbyn won the leadership election, she first said that this made the Labour Party unelectable, then stated the opposite.
Dugdale was Leader of the Scottish Labour Party during the general election. In the previous general election in , the party lost 40 of its 41 seats in what was a landslide victory for the SNP, who won 56 of the 59 seats in Scotland.
Nicola Sturgeon based the SNP campaign on a promise to seek a second Scottish independence referendum with the aim of keeping an independent Scotland inside the European Union, a referendum Ruth Davidson and the Scottish Conservatives were opposed to. Dugdale again campaigned on what she saw as the need for an income tax increase to tackle education underfunding by the SNP.
The results gave Scottish Labour seven seats. In their previously sole seat Edinburgh South, Ian Murray was returned with a super-majority of over 15,, and the party gained a further six seats from the SNP. However, the party came in third place behind the SNP with 35 seats and Scottish Conservatives with
On 29 August , Dugdale resigned as leader of Scottish Labour with immediate effect, commenting that it was time to "pass on the baton" to someone else.
She opined that her successor needed the "space and time" to prepare for the next Scottish Parliament election in
Later career
In November , ITV announced that Dugdale would appear as a contestant on its reality television series, I'm a CelebrityGet Me Out of Here! It was subsequently reported that she faced disciplinary action from the Labour Party because she did not notify party managers she would be out of the country on non-work related business while the Scottish Parliament was in session.
On 21 November, the party said that she would not be suspended.
Dugdale made her first appearance on I'm a CelebrityGet Me Out of Here! on 22 November. She became the second person to be eliminated from the show.
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Speaking about the experience afterwards, she said that she knew her appearance on the programme would be a "political gamble", but that she wanted to "take on the myth that every politician [is] old, white, male, pale and stale" and would return home "with [her] head held high". She expressed regrets of the effect of her appearances on the show during the first weeks of the new Labour leadership in Scotland, and received a written warning for agreeing to take part without approval from the Scottish Labour parliamentary group.
She promised to donate her MSP's salary for her absence, and part of her show fees, to charity.
In , Stuart Campbell, a blogger running the pro-independence Wings Over Scotland website, started defamation proceedings against Dugdale about comments she made as a columnist for the Daily Record about his Twitter activity, a case he lost.
The judgement said Dugdale was incorrect to imply Campbell had been homophobic but her article was protected under the principle of fair comment.
On 29 April , Dugdale announced she would be resigning as an MSP before the summer recess of the Scottish Parliament in order to take up the role of director of the John Smith Centre for Public Service at the University of Glasgow.
On 15 July , Dugdale resigned as a Member of the Scottish Parliament. The following day it was announced she would be succeeded by former transport minister Sarah Boyack, who had been a candidate on the Lothian regional list in On 10 October , it was revealed she had also resigned from Scottish Labour that July, following disagreement with the party over Brexit.
Personal life
In a interview with Mary Riddell for the Fabian Review, Dugdale said she was in a relationship with a woman but was disinclined to provide details of her private life.
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In February , Dugdale revealed the couple had separated shortly after the New Year and following nine years together. In July , it was reported Dugdale was in a relationship with Mid Fife and Glenrothes MSP Jenny Gilruth, a member of the SNP, and the two had started dating around four months earlier.
In June , Dugdale married Gilruth in a private ceremony.
In September , she was named Politician of the Year at the Icon Awards, an awards ceremony celebrating Scotland's LGBT community. Dugdale's late father was retired teacher Jeff Dugdale, a campaigner for the Scottish independence movement. Her relationship with her father had been left "sad" and "sore" by his public criticisms of her on Twitter and his support for Stuart Campbell in the defamation case against her.
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Dugdale says her interests include the theatre, Scottish crime novels, and the city of Edinburgh. She supports Hibernian F.C., living close to their ground at Easter Road. She has lived in the Lochend, and Meadowbank, area since She is a member of Unite the Union and the Community trade union.
From until , she published a weekly column in the Daily Record. She has also written for LabourList and Progress.