Sandra White

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Sandra White
MSP
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Deputy Convener of the
Scottish Parliament
Public Petitions Committee
Assumed office
14 June 2011
Preceded by John Farquhar Munro
Member of the Scottish Parliament
for Glasgow Kelvin
Assumed office
5 May 2011
Preceded by Pauline McNeill
Majority 882
Member of the Scottish Parliament
for Glasgow
In office
6 May 1999 – 5 May 2011
Personal details
Born (1951-08-17) 17 August 1951 (age 73)
Glasgow, Scotland
Political party Scottish National Party

Sandra White (born 17 August 1951) is a Scottish politician, the Scottish National Party MSP for the Glasgow Kelvin constituency. She was previously a list MSP for the Glasgow electoral region since 1999.

Political career

White served as an SNP councillor in Renfrewshire. She contested Glasgow Kelvin in 1999, where she came second to the Labour Party candidate by 4,408 votes, but was elected to the Scottish Parliament on the Glasgow regional list. She was re-elected in 2003, topping the SNP's list of candidates for that region. Contesting Glasgow Kelvin that year she again came second to Labour, this time by the smaller margin of 3,289 votes.[1]

White was re-elected on the regional list in 2007. In the 2011 election, she again contested the Glasgow Kelvin seat, this time defeating the sitting Labour MSP Pauline McNeill by 882 votes. White served as an SNP Parliamentary group whip in the first parliamentary session and sat on the parliament's Public Petitions Committee, and, Equal Opportunities Committee.[2][3][4]

White holds her party's Deputy Social Justice portfolio. Her campaigns include against closures and downgrading (including a 1,600 signature petition) at the Royal Hospital for Sick Children, Yorkhill and the Queen Mother's Hospital.[2][3][4] She has also campaigned against racism[5] and for improved treatment of asylum seekers, including joining an occupation against 'dawn raids'.[6]

Her other campaigns have included the successful attempts to save the 7:84 theatre group from threatened loss of funding by the Scottish Arts Council [7] and involvement in Stop the War Coalition events,[8] while high-profile constituency work has included the August 2006 case of an 86-year-old widow who was threatened with court by Glasgow Housing Association.[9]

In November 2015 White re-tweeted an anti-semitic cartoon showing piglets suckling a large pig with the word “Rothschild” written on it and showing a bank with a Star of David.[10] The tweet had originally been sent by a Twitter user who had repeatedly posted antisemitic messages and images.[10] After The Jewish Chronicle brought the tweet to the attention of the SNP, the party's spokesperson said the tweet had been re-tweeted in error, and had since been deleted.[10]

References

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