Education
University of Glasgow.
University of Glasgow.
She previously worked for the Labour Party, and before that for the Institute of Civil Engineers as a conference organiser, for the political communications company Holyrood Communications Limited, and as a Labour party researcher for Cathy Craigie Labour Managing Successful Programmes. She had previously stood as a Labour candidate in Scotland at the 2004 European Parliament elections. She has been since October 2010 Labour"s Shadow Defence Minister for Defence Personnel, Welfare and Veterans, deputy to Shadow Defence Secretary Jim Murphy.
Labour Company-operative, Labour Party.
55th United Kingdom Parliament]
Member of Parliament
In 2011, she was a member of the special Select Committee set up to scrutinise the Bill that became the Armed Forces Acting 2011.