Jack McConnell
- Location: University of Stirling Archives and Special Collections
- Reference Number: SPA/OH/REF/NAT/YES/12
- Medium: Digital Sound Recording
- Date: 17/4/2012
- Description: Interview with Jack McConnell. Interviewer Sarah Bromage, Interview undertaken at the University of Stirling. Duration 52 mins. This interview discusses the 1979 and 1997 referendum campaigns.
Lord McConnell is a graduate of Stirling University and former President of Stirling University Students Association 1980 -82. During his time at Stirling University he served as Vice-President of NUS Scotland 1982 -3. He graduated in 1983 and took up a post teaching maths in Lornshill Academy in Alloa. Between 1984 and 1993 he served as a Labour Councillor for Stirling Council, where he was Chair of the Leisure and Recreation Committee from 1986 - 87 and Equal Opportunities Committee from 1986 - 1990. He was Council treasurer from 1988 - 1992 and was Council Leader 1990 - 1992. Throughout the 1980s Lord McConnell was involved in the Labour Co-ordinating Committee (Scotland) as well as a founder member of Scottish Labour Action: each was responsible for developing Labour policy in Scotland. He was appointed General Secretary of the Scottish Labour Party 1992 - 1998 and was a member of the Scottish Constitutional Convention which designed the current devolution settlement. Between 1999 and 2011 he was the Labour MSP for Motherwell and Wishaw, Minister for Finance 1999-2000 and Minister for Education, Europe and External Affairs 2000-2001 before becoming First Minister. - Level: Item
- Extent: 1 sound file
- Contact: University of Stirling Archives
