Frank McAveety
Frank McAveety | |
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Leader of Glasgow City Council | |
In office 10 September 2015 – 4 May 2017 | |
Preceded by | Gordon Matheson |
Succeeded by | Susan Aitken |
In office 1997–1999 | |
Preceded by | Bob Gould |
Succeeded by | Charlie Gordon |
Shettleston (ward) | |
Assumed office 3 May 2012 | |
Preceded by | Euan McLeod |
Member of the Scottish Parliament for Glasgow Shettleston | |
In office 6 May 1999 – 22 March 2011 | |
Preceded by | Office established |
Succeeded by | John Mason |
Personal details | |
Born | Glasgow, Scotland | 27 July 1962
Political party | Scottish Labour |
Alma mater | University of Strathclyde (BA) St Andrew's College of Education (PGCE) |
Occupation | Teacher (English and History) |
Frank McAveety (born 27 July 1962) is a Scottish Labour Party politician who served as Leader of Glasgow City Council from 2015 to 2017. He has been a councillor for the Shettleston ward of Glasgow. He was previously the Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) for the Glasgow Shettleston constituency from 1999 to 2011.[1]
Early life
McAveety was born 27 July 1962 in
After receiving a Postgraduate Certificate in Education from St Andrew's College of Education (now part of the University of Glasgow) in 1984, McAveety began a career as a secondary school teacher. He taught English at schools across the South side and the East End of Glasgow.
Political career
Glasgow councillor
He was a member of
McAveety served as Leader of the Glasgow City Council from 1997 until 1999, during which time he initiated the largest-ever investment package for Glasgow Secondary Schools and oversaw the removal of housing debt for City Housing Tenants[citation needed]. He also established the first ever Local Authority Standards Committee, which was the influence for the establishment of the Standards Commission for Scotland by the Scottish Parliament, a few years later.
Scottish Parliament
When elected to the Scottish Parliament in 1999, he was appointed Deputy Minister for Local Government in the
In 2004, he was mocked by a Sheriff Court judge after charges against two anti-war protesters were dropped after an altercation with the two protesters and a Labour council candidate.[3] McAveety had claimed they had put him through the "worst intimidation in his life" during an altercation in the southside of Glasgow. In dismissing the case however, Sheriff Graeme Warner said that McAveety "must have lived a very sheltered life" and had "completely blown his credibility".[4]
A week later, he was forced to apologise for misleading parliament when he turned up late for a ministerial question time claiming to have been unavoidably detained on ministerial business. It was later discovered that he was actually eating pie, beans and roast potatoes in the parliament canteen.[5] The incident was dubbed by some as "porky pie-gate" and is said to have led First Minister Jack McConnell to sack him from his cabinet later that year.[6]
McAveety was re-elected to the Scottish Parliament on 3 May 2007 after winning more than 50% of the vote in Glasgow Shettleston and until June 2010 he served as Convener of the Public Petitions Committee and was the Scottish Labour Party's Shadow Minister for Sport.
On 16 June 2010 he resigned as Convenor of the Scottish Parliament's Public Petitions Committee after being overheard making comments about the physical appearance of a female member of the audience during a break in committee proceedings.[7] The comments were broadcast because he had not switched off his microphone.[8] McAveety said: "There's a very attractive girl in the second row, dark... and dusky. We'll maybe put a wee word out for her."[7]
McAveety led a campaign in 2009 to establish access for children free of charge to professional football matches in Scotland. He is a keen supporter of Celtic F.C. and the Scotland national team and, while an MSP, was a regular player for the Scottish Parliamentary Football Team, which has taken part in a number of high-profile charity events.
McAveety is known for his knowledge of various genres of modern popular music.
McAveety has served as a board member for the Arches Theatre Company in Glasgow, Enterprise Scotland and the
In the 2011 Scottish Parliament election, he lost his seat to the SNP's John Mason[10] but he made an early return to politics in May 2012, when he was elected as a Councillor for the Shettleston ward of Glasgow City Council.[11]
On 10 September 2015, McAveety was elected leader of Glasgow City Council after Gordon Matheson stood down, thus returning to a post he had held sixteen years earlier.[12] He was succeeded by Susan Aitken on 4 May 2017.[13]
See also
- List of Scottish Executive Ministerial Teams
References
- ^ "McAveety, Mr Frank MSP", The Scottish Parliament website, retrieved 20 December 2015
- ^ Times Educational Supplement, TSL Education, 17 October 1997, retrieved 12 February 2011
- ^ McCabe, Grant (17 June 2004), "'Naive' Minister Mocked as Sheriff Clears War Protesters", The Scotsman, Johnston Press, retrieved 12 February 2011
- ^ "Sheriff Ridicules Minister's Fear", BBC News, BBC, 16 June 2004, retrieved 12 February 2011
- ^ "'Out to Lunch' Minister's Apology", BBC News, BBC, 24 June 2004, retrieved 12 February 2011
- ^ "'Piegate' Minister Has His Chips", BBC News, BBC, 4 October 2004, retrieved 12 February 2011
- ^ a b "Frank McAveety Quits Over 'Attractive Girl' Remark", BBC News, BBC, 16 June 2010, retrieved 26 August 2010
- ^ Johnson, Simon (16 June 2010), "Labour MSP Resigns Over 'Dark and Dusky' Praise for Woman", The Daily Telegraph, archived from the original on 19 June 2010, retrieved 12 February 2011
- ^ "It's only rock and roll but they like it – MSPs reveal their top tunes". www.scotsman.com. 9 July 2008.
- ^ "JOHN MASON TAKES SHETTLESTON FOR THE SNP".
- ^ Space, Common (9 April 2020). "New Glasgow City Council leader: The fall and rise of Frank McAveety".
- ^ "Frank McAveety set to lead Glasgow City Council". BBC News. 9 September 2015. Retrieved 25 September 2015.
- ^ Carrell, Severin (5 May 2017). "Labour loses control of Glasgow city council as SNP makes gains". The Guardian. Retrieved 6 May 2017.
External links
- Scottish Parliament profiles of MSPs: Frank McAveety