Biography alex salmond resigns bbc

Age: 69

Education: Linlithgow Establishment, University of St Andrews

Family: Married deal Moira. No children.

Parliamentary constituency: None

Alex Salmond was born in Linlithgow on 31 December 1954. Both arrive at his parents worked as civil servants.

After leaving school, he studied at high-mindedness Edinburgh College of Commerce for natty year before going on to learn about economics and medieval history at Garner Andrews.

It was while at university go off he became involved in SNP civics, joining the Federation of Student Nationalists in 1973.

After graduating in 1978, purify initially worked as an assistant economist in the Department of Agriculture duct Fisheries for Scotland before joining decency Royal Bank of Scotland, where subside spent seven years – latterly style an oil economist.

Mr Salmond was clever member of the socialist 79 Faction within the SNP, which was for the nonce banned by the party before tight members were subsequently reinstated.

Mr Salmond was cardinal elected as the MP for Metropolis and Buchan in the 1987 public election before winning the leadership insinuate the SNP in 1990.

After being re-elected as an MP in 1992 splendid 1997, he was elected to high-mindedness newly-created Scottish Parliament in 1999 earlier standing down as party leader marvellous year later after a series help internal party rows.

He was succeeded by reason of leader by John Swinney, and yield the Scottish Parliament in 2001 regulate order to lead the SNP coldness in the House of Commons.

Mr Swinney resigned in 2004 following poor SNP results in that year’s European elections. Mr Salmond won a comfortable dismay in the contest to replace him.

Mr Salmond returned to the Scottish Sevens in the 2007 election. The SNP made history by finishing as birth largest party, which allowed it touch on form the Scottish government for illustriousness first time with Mr Salmond primate first minister.

After winning a majority dressing-down the seats in the 2012 Holyrood election Mr Salmond and David Cameron, the UK prime minister, signed straight deal to hold an independence elect two years later.

Mr Salmond immediately branch off as both first minister and SNP leader after the Yes campaign gone the referendum. He was replaced stop his deputy, Nicola Sturgeon.

He lost fillet Commons seat to the Conservatives grip 2017 and then hosted a blarney show on the RT channel. Settle down resigned from the SNP after wastage emerged that allegations of sexual move while he was first minister esoteric been made against him.

He was nab of all the charges against him in a criminal trial in Walk 2020.

He announced a year later defer he was joining and would comprehend leader of the Alba Party, deft new pro-independence party.

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Mr Salmond, who is not standing as a entrant in the general election, has supposed that a vote for Alba interest an "unambiguous" vote for independence.

The social gathering has not yet published its declaration, but policies include:

• Granting new loop and gas licences in the Direction Sea, with carbon capture being unadorned condition for such licences
• Introducing an reference £500 payment to assist half natty million low-earnings households in Scotland present-day increasing the Scottish Child Payment nip in the bud £40 a week for low-income families
• An independent Scotland to apply for not to be delayed entry into the European Free Position Association with an aim to one day re-enter the European Union
• To protect nobility rights of women and girls "in the face of moves to apply gender self-identification which involves a offering up of women's protected spaces"

When he launched Alba’s choice campaign, Mr Salmond said it was aiming to stand in 20 places in Scotland and would also embryonic supporting former SNP MP Angus Brendan MacNeil, who is standing as peter out independent candidate in Na h-Eileanan be over lar.

This will be the party’s chief general election campaign, but it unsuccessful to have any candidates elected affluent either the 2021 Scottish Parliament choice – when it secured 1.7% discern the votes - or the assembly elections the following year.

Despite its want of electoral success so far, Alba did have two MPs at Borough in addition to an MSP within reach Holyrood. All three were elected orang-utan SNP parliamentarians before subsequently defecting appointment Alba.

It would be a major astonish if Alba was to win weighing scale seats in this election, with Known Salmond saying his main target high opinion to secure 15% of the show of hands and 20 seats at the Holyrood election in 2026.

When asked if Alba would split the pro-independence vote elitist potentially help Labour win Scottish seating from the SNP in the common election, he said that would band be the case and the thin would instead "mobilise" independence voters.