Alasdair Morrison (pictured above) has been selected as Labour’s choice to fight the Western Isles seat in the forthcoming UK General Election.
He was chosen as the party’s prospective parliamentary candidate following a count of members’ votes on Saturday, announced the Western Isles Constituency Labour Party.
Mr Morrison is a former MSP for the islands, having sat in the Scottish Parliament from 1999 until he lost his seat to the present incumbent, Alasdair Allan of the SNP, in 2007.
This time he is standing for the Westminster election being held in May, just over six months away, when he hopes to oust the SNP’s Angus Macneil as the Western Isles MP.
Mr Morrison, 45, is thought to have impressed many within the party in leading the local Better Together campaign against Scottish independence.
Other nominees were: Callum Ian Macmillan, Stornoway; Murdo Maclenann, Aignish, Point; Norman Macdonald, Uig; and Peter Clarke, North Uist/ London.
Labour chooses Western Isles candidate
15 November 2014