Iain Gray is Labour's Leader in the Scottish Parliament. He was elected in September 2008, following an election process involving hundreds of thousands of Labour members and supporters.
Iain Gray is also the Member of the Scottish Parliament for East Lothian, where he lives. He is a former teacher in Edinburgh and Mozambique, and campaigns director for Oxfam.
You can contact Iain at: The Scottish Parliament, Edinburgh, EH99 1SP. Telephone: 0131 348 5000
Iain.Gray.msp@scottish.parliament.uk
Iain Gray with Kofi Annan
A fairer Scotland
A better Scotland
You can follow Iain Gray's videos on the Scottish Labour YouTube channel here.
Iain Gray Speeches
Lecture at Edinburgh University - 2 December 2009 I am delighted to be here today to undertake the first in this series of reflections by MSPs on devolution, the first ten years and the future. I was one of those first MSPs ten years ago and remember well the opening ceremony. You probably do too. Donald Dewar made a great speech. Perhaps the greatest that has yet been made in our young Parliament. As our first First Minister he wanted the first 129 Members of the Scottish Parliament to be conscious of...
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Speech to Labour Party Conference 2009
Labour Party Conference, Brighton - September 2009 The Tories have not changed. David Cameron has come a long way. He isn’t hugging hoodies and huskies any more. He is embracing Europe’s extremists. In Scotland we are not surprised at the company Tories keep. We have watched them nuzzling up to the nationalist government from day one. In Scotland, we do not have to imagine a leader who will say anything, promise everything and be whatever you want to get into office. We already have Alex Salmond. A year ago he didn’t mind...
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Iain Gray warns of twin threat of Salmond and Cameron
Extract of a speech to Cooperative Party Conference 12 September 2009, Edinburgh We have to be alert to the threat of the return of the Tories and their Thatcherite ideology. No one should be fooled. It has not gone away. Thatcherism is at the very core of Tory values. They have not changed. Cameron’s core values are Thatcher's. So let no one delude themselves - David Cameron’s Tory ideology is a belief system, in complete conflict with the ideology, beliefs and values that unite the Labour and the Co-operative Parties. Where we believed in the principles of trades unionism –...
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Scottish Co-operative Party Lecture 2009
Scottish Co-operative Party Lecture 19 June 2009 at the Winter Gardens, The People’s Palace, Glasgow Thank you. I am pleased and honoured to be with you this evening. Ten years ago, almost to the day I had the privilege of being one of the 129 members of the new Scottish Parliament. It was a moment that whatever happens - and a fair bit has happened in the intervening ten years - no-one can take from those of us who were there. It was a remarkable moment of constitutional change: without a shot being fired, without riots in the street, without...
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Iain Gray's speech to Scottish Labour Conference, March 2009
Check against delivery Thank you conference. It is a privilege to be here and to address you as Leader of Labour in the Scottish Parliament. We meet in difficult times. A global banking crisis. A worldwide economic slowdown. And for Scottish Labour too. The defeat of 2007. halfway through an SNP Scottish government. The loss of Glasgow East. But my favourite author wrote: The world breaks everyone, and afterward many are strong at the broken places. Conference. This is the task we are given by the time in which we live. To learn...
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