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Nigel Griffiths MP (born 20 May 1955, Glasgow, Scotland) is a British politician. He is the Labour Member of Parliament for Edinburgh South.
[edit] Early lifeNigel Griffiths was educated at the Hawick High School on Buccleuch Road in Hawick in the Scottish Borders before attending the University of Edinburgh where he was awarded an MA in 1977, he finished his education at Moray House College of Education (now the Moray House School of Education on Holyrood Road at the University of Edinburgh) in Edinburgh in 1978, before working as a Welfare Rights officer. He was president of the University of Edinburgh Labour Group in 1976. It was during his time as an undergraduate at the University of Edinburgh that he first came into contact with Gordon Brown (then the student elected Rector of the University) and worked vigorously in support of Brown. In 1978, he worked as a secretary to the Lothian Development Council, before becoming a welfare rights worker with a pressure group working on behalf of people with learning disabilities in 1979, he remained in this position until his election to Parliament. [edit] Political careerHe joined the Labour Party in 1970 and was elected as a councillor on the City of Edinburgh Council in 1980, a position in which he remained until he became a member of the House of Commons. He also served as a member of the Edinburgh Health Council (1982-87). He was a member of the Edinburgh International Festival committee for three years from 1984 and was the chairman of the city council in 1986. He was elected to parliament at the 1987 General Election for Edinburgh South, when he ousted the sitting Conservative MP Michael Ancram by 1,859 votes and he has remained the MP there since. He was made an Opposition Whip by Neil Kinnock in 1987, becoming a spokesman for eight years on trade and industry in 1989. He became a member of the first government of Tony Blair following the 1997 General Election as the Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Department for Trade and Industry, but was sacked by Blair in his first reshuffle of 1998, he spent the rest of the parliament as a member of both the procedure and the public accounts select committees. He returned to government following the 2001 with the same rank at the Department of Trade and Industry. He then served as the Deputy to the Leader of the House of Commons Jack Straw from 2005 until he resigned over the renewal of the British Trident system in March 2007.[1] He worked with Anita Roddick to found The Big Issue in Scotland. He reached the headlines in 2002 when a complaint against him for not declaring all his expenses was upheld.[2]. Total second home claims[3]: 2004-05: £20,902; 2005-06: £21,394; 2006-07: £21,569; and 2007-08: £15,943. Mr Griffiths has refused to confirm if he has ever "switched" his second home. [edit] Sex scandalIn March 2009, Mr Griffiths was revealed to have been caught sneaking a female companion who was not his wife into the House of Commons where they had sexual relations before leaving to continue their tryst elsewhere. At least 27 pornographic images were taken on the House of Commons estate, and 44 images were taken at the second location. Mr Griffiths initially attempted to deny the affair, claiming that the evidence had been "fabricated".[4] However, Mr Griffiths subsequently confessed to the matter and issued an apology. [5] On the 13th December 2009, the political blogger Guido Fawks claimed that Griffiths still has a so called super-injunction over this event, preventing full press coverage of the matter in the United Kingdom. [6] [edit] Hijab controversyNigel Griffiths has commented on the debate over veils stating "The justification I have heard is that some Muslim women feel 'comfortable' wearing the full veil, but it doesn't make others comfortable."[7] [edit] References
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