Raymond Robertson (politician)
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Raymond Scott Robertson (born 11 December 1959 in
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, Scotland) is a Scottish
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politician.


Early life

He was educated at
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, graduating Master of Arts with Honours in Modern History and Politics. During the 1980s he taught
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at Dumbarton Academy and Smithycroft Secondary School in Glasgow's East End.


Parliamentary career

After unsuccessfully contesting Clydesdale in
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, he was selected as Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party candidate for Aberdeen South. In a surprise result, at the 1992 general election, he was elected as member of parliament (MP) for Aberdeen South, defeating Labour's Frank Doran, who had held the seat since 1987. In July 1995 he was appointed as Parliamentary Under-Secretary at the
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, a post he held until the 1997 general election.


Outside Parliament

Robertson lost his Aberdeen South seat to Labour's
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at the 1997 general election. Following the election, in May 1997, he became
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Chairman. In 2001, he resigned after unsuccessfully contesting the Eastwood constituency at the 2001 general election and the subsequent resignation of
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, the then Conservative Party leader. After politics he became a founding director of Halogen Communications Ltd, a public affairs and
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consultancy with offices in Edinburgh and Washington, D.C.


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Halogen Communications Ltd
1959 births Living people Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for Aberdeen constituencies Alumni of the University of Glasgow Scottish Conservative MPs UK MPs 1992–1997 Politicians from Hamilton, South Lanarkshire {{Conservative-UK-MP-1950s-stub