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Jackson Carlaw is a Scottish Conservative Party politician who has been the Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) for Eastwood since 2016. He was previously the leader of the Scottish Conservative Party from February 2020 to June 2020. Carlaw was born in East Renfrewshire Council, United Kingdom, on 12 April 1959. He was educated at Eastwood High School and the University of Glasgow, where he studied law. Carlaw began his political career in the late 1980s, when he was elected to Eastwood District Council. He was later elected to the Scottish Parliament in 1999, representing the Eastwood constituency. He served as the Shadow Minister for Education and Young People from 2001 to 2003, and as the Shadow Minister for Health and Community Care from 2003 to 2007. In 2007, Carlaw was appointed as the Deputy Leader of the Scottish Conservative Party, a position he held until 2011. He was then appointed as the Shadow Cabinet Secretary for Health and Wellbeing in 2011, a position he held until 2016. In 2016, Carlaw was elected as the Member of the Scottish Parliament for Eastwood. He was appointed as the Shadow Cabinet Secretary for Education and Skills in 2017, and as the Shadow Cabinet Secretary for Finance in 2018. In February 2020, Carlaw was elected as the leader of the Scottish Conservative Party, succeeding Ruth Davidson. He resigned from the position in June 2020, citing personal reasons.

Popular As David Jackson Carlaw
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Age 65 years old
Zodiac Sign Aries
Born 12 April 1959
Birthday 12 April
Birthplace Newton Mearns, East Renfrewshire, Scotland
Nationality United Kingdom

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2020

On 6 January 2020, Carlaw confirmed his candidacy for the 2020 Scottish Conservative Party leadership election and launched his campaign in Edinburgh on 15 January. He received support from Ruth Davidson, Murdo Fraser, Adam Tomkins, Liz Smith, Annie Wells and Jamie Greene. This gave Carlaw the position of favourite over his opponent Michelle Ballantyne. He centred his campaign around how he could beat Nicola Sturgeon and the SNP in the next Scottish Parliament election and the local elections in 2022. He also promised to make the Scottish Conservatives more for the middle and working classes and continue to maintain the Scottish Conservatives as the main party of the Union. Carlaw won the election with 4,917 votes in his favour, as opposed to 1,581 for Ballantyne. He promised to provide a "clear, focused and ambitious alternative to the SNP".

2018

Carlaw dismissed the initial stages of the June 2018 bill to reform local council planning by the SNP as a "power grab". The proposed legislation, which provisioned for the monitoring and training of local councillors in relation to planning, was argued as containing "too much centralisation" and was opposed by Carlaw in a parliamentary debate, in which he claimed the added power such a bill would give Holyrood would be "a dangerous trend to set".

Carlaw served as acting leader of the Scottish Conservatives while leader Ruth Davidson was on maternity leave from September 2018 until May 2019. Following her resignation in August 2019, he was appointed to serve a second term. He was the incumbent when Prime Minister Boris Johnson called the 2019 general election, in which the party lost seven of their 13 seats from 2017.

2017

In 2011, Carlaw stood as a candidate in the leadership election brought on by Annabel Goldie's resignation. During the campaign, he was hospitalised with appendicitis. Carlaw finished third behind Ruth Davidson and Murdo Fraser. He was appointed as Deputy Leader of the Scottish Conservatives by Ruth Davidson in 2011, and had been Shadow Cabinet Secretary for Health and Sport for almost nine years. He was re-appointed as of 28 June 2017 as Shadow Cabinet Secretary for Europe and External Affairs.

Following an attempt in March 2017 by the SNP to hold a second Scottish independence referendum, Carlaw spoke against the attempt, describing it as "pointless" and unwanted". He pledged the Scottish Conservatives would not allow for a further referendum until the Scottish public showed clear support.

2016

In September 2016, he was elected Convener of the Scottish Parliament's Cross Party Group on Building Bridges with Israel, the establishment of which he pledged to help in his 2016 election campaign. In February 2017, Carlaw was appointed Deputy Convener of the Cross Party Group on End-of-life Choices.

Carlaw supported remain during the 2016 EU referendum and attacked Boris Johnson. Since the referendum result, he has supported both Brexit and Johnson, including in his role as interim Scottish Conservative leader.

Carlaw opposed the SNP's changes to council tax in November 2016, believing the proposed changes would effectively put over 50% of property in East Renfrewshire in the top two council tax bands. Commenting against the decision, he maintained "the rise would unfairly hit working families and the elderly" and "will hit Eastwood residents hard".

Carlaw opposed the sale and privatisation of the only public residential care home in East Renfrewshire in December 2016. He described it as a "betrayal" to the families and residents within his constituency who relied on the care home by a council "unwilling to properly look at any options other than privatisation".

In a press release reacting to proposed changes to parking regulations by the Eastwood council in November 2016, Carlaw spoke in favour of protecting local businesses from the potentially negative effects of the changes, suggesting several amendments to ensure the changes were "substantially rethought to protect local businesses".

2011

Carlaw previously served as the Shadow Cabinet Secretary for Culture, Tourism and External Affairs, and served as Deputy Leader of the Scottish Conservative Party under Ruth Davidson from 2011 to 2019. In this capacity, he served as Acting Leader from September 2018 to May 2019 during Davidson’s maternity leave and from August 2019 to February 2020 following Davidson’s resignation as leader.

2003

Carlaw was unsuccessful as a candidate for Eastwood in the 2003, 2007, and 2011 Scottish Parliament elections. He was however elected on the party list under Scotland's additional member system in 2007 and 2011 representing the West of Scotland region. In 2016 he became the MSP for Eastwood after defeating the incumbent Ken Macintosh. He sits on the European and External Relations Committee of the Scottish Parliament.

2002

Carlaw was brought up in Crookfur, Newton Mearns and was educated at The Glasgow Academy. He worked for 25 years as a car salesman and was joint head of FirstFord car dealership in the west of Scotland until it was placed into receivership in November 2002. He was also a director of Wylies (Automotive Services) until it went into administration in February 2003.

1997

In the run-up to the 1997 Scottish devolution referendum Carlaw campaigned against the formation of a devolved Scottish Parliament alongside the Scottish Conservatives and the Think Twice campaign, advocating a No vote for both the question of the parliament's formation and whether the parliament should be granted tax-varying powers.

1978

Carlaw joined the East Renfrewshire Conservatives in 1978. He was the Conservative candidate in the 1982 Queen's Park by-election, and in the 1983 general election in Pollok. He was Chairman of the Scottish Young Conservatives from 1984 to 1986, Chairman of Eastwood Conservatives from 1988 to 1992, and was Deputy Chairman of the Scottish Conservatives from 1992 to 1998. He was reappointed Deputy Chairman of the Scottish Conservatives in 2005.

1959

David Jackson Carlaw CBE (born 12 April 1959) is a Scottish Conservative Party politician serving as Leader of the Scottish Conservative Party since 2020. He has served as Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) for Eastwood since 2016.