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Ming Campbell’s successor selected: Tim Brett to fight North East Fife for Lib Dems in 2015

By Stephen Tall | Tue 18th March 2014 - 4:45 pm

Former Lib Dem leader Ming Campbell announced last October he’d retire as MP for North East Fife at the next general election, after eight elections (five of them successful) and 28 years.

His successor has now been announced: Tim Brett, leader of Fife Council Liberal Democrats and former chief executive of Ninewells Hospital, will contest the seat for the Lib Dems. Here’s what his biography on the Scottish Lib Dem website says about him:

Tim has lived in NE Fife since 1985 and has been a Councillor since 2003. He held

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Posted in Selection news | Also tagged general election 2015, ming cambell and north east fife | 7 Comments

Dunfermline by-election: why are you in?

By Caron Lindsay | Thu 3rd October 2013 - 11:29 am

The Scottish Parliament by-election for the Dunfermline seat is well under way now. Our candidate Susan Leslie and leader Willie Rennie have had a great reception on the doorsteps. The other night there was a reminder of why we do this. It’s all about making people’s lives better. A woman ran up to Willie and Susan in the street and thanked him profusely. I can’t say what he’d done for her while he was MP for Dunfermline but this had been her first chance to say …

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Posted in News | Also tagged Dunfermline by-election, Susan Leslie and willie rennie | 3 Comments

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