Scottish Labour has selected its candidate to fight the Western Isles’ seat in the forthcoming UK General Election.
Alasdair Morrison was chosen as the party’s prospective parliamentary candidate following a count of members’ votes on Saturday, announced the Western Isles Constituency Labour Party.
Mr Morrison is a former MSP for the islands, having sat in the Scottish Parliament from 1999 until he lost his seat to the present incumbent, Alasdair Allan of the SNP, in 2007.
This time he is standing for the Westminster election being held in May when he hopes to oust the SNP’s Angus Macneil as the Western Isles’ MP.
Mr Morrison, who will be 46 tomorrow , is thought to have impressed many within the party in leading the local Better Together campaign against Scottish independence.
He was brought up in North Uist and now lives on Lewis, residing with his family in Garrabost, Point.
Other nominees were: Callum Macmillan, Stornoway; Murdo Maclenann, Aignish, Point; Norman Macdonald, Uig; and Peter Clarke, North Uist/ London.
Labour select Western Isles candidate for General Election
