Kezia Dugdale
Following her time at Edinburgh University and the National Union of Students, Kezia was agent to Alistair Darling MP and Sarah Boyack MSP and latterly headed the Scottish Parliamentary office of George Foulkes.
Kezia was elected to the Scottish Parliament on the regional list in 2011.
Listed among: Members of the Scottish Parliament
- Scottish Co-operative Party Campaign Convention 2011 (2 Nov 2011)The Scottish Co-operative Party’s Campaign Convention is being held this year in Edinburgh on Saturday 19 November. UPDATE: This event will now also feature a hustings for Scotland’s Labour Leader, held jointly with SERA Scotland. The Campaign Convention will include the launch of the Scottish Local Government Manifesto which will be led by Margaret Curran MP, Shadow Secretary [...]
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Forth Replacement Crossing (10 May 2012)
The Forth Replacement Road Crossing is set to cost £1.2bn, of which £790m pounds is being spent through a ‘principal contract’. That is a massive amount of money to spend, especially as we have the worst economic situation most of us have ever known. 400 Scottish women lose their jobs every day and over 100,000 [...]
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Cyber-bullying (16 Apr 2012)
WHEN I was a kid a troll was a plastic figurine with luminous hair you collected; now it’s a cyber-bully. In its least offensive guise, trolling is the use of online spaces to make obnoxious comments, with little or no relevance to the topic being discussed, for the purposes of provoking outrage for kicks. At [...]
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Take out the Trash Day (21 Mar 2012)
Fan of the West Wing? Then you’ll know the episode. The SNP Government has used Budget Day to bury a string of their own bad news stories with a list of failures and u-turns, including: Another U-turn on the Scotland Bill, the SNP say they will now support the current Scotland Bill despite opposing tooth and [...]
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Pigeon Street (16 Mar 2012)
It’s the little things that annoy people. Over-flowing rubbish bins, the length of time the green man flashes at a set of traffic lights, potholes. And rightly so, there is no issue too big or indeed too small to take to your local politicians. It’s part of the reason I’ve been actively pursuing a programme of roving [...]
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Muhammad Yunus and the Grameen Bank (9 Mar 2012)
This week I had the honour of meeting and listening to a Nobel laureate, Muhammad Yunus, founder of Grameen Bank. Fittingly, during the week of International Women’s Day, Professor Yunus’ and Grameen Bank’s model of microfinance focuses on women as the key to ending cycles of poverty. First trialled in 1976, the model quickly [...]
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Living Wage Debate (9 Mar 2012)
My Labour colleague John Park MSP secured a debate in the Scottish Parliament about the living wage. I made the following speech to parliament during the debate. Kezia Dugdale (Lothian) (Lab): I congratulate John Park on securing the debate. Today is of course international women?s day, which for me is a day for [...]
