Kezia Dugdale

Quick Facts

Full Name	Kezia Dugdale
Occupation	Politician
Date Of Birth	Aug 28, 1981(1981-08-28)
Age	43
Birthplace	Aberdeen
Country	Scotland
Horoscope	Virgo

Kezia Dugdale Biography

Kezia Dugdale is one of the most popular and richest Politician who was born on August 28, 1981 in Aberdeen, Scotland. Scottish politician who served as the Leader of the Scottish Labour Party from 2015 until 2017. She’d previously served as the party’s deputy leader. In 2017, she appeared on the reality series I’m a Celebrity…Get Me Out of Here.

She succeeded Jim Murphy as the Labour Party’s leader.

Kezia Alexandra Ross Dugdale (born 28 August 1981) is a Scottish politician who served as Leader of the Scottish Labour Party from 2015 until 2017. A former member of the Scottish Labour Party and Co-operative Party, she was a Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) for the Lothian region from 2011 to 2019.

Dugdale says her interests include the theatre, Scottish crime novels, and the city of Edinburgh. She supports Hibernian F.C., living close to their ground at Easter Road. She has lived in the Lochend, and Meadowbank, area since 2006. She is a member of Unite the Union and the Community trade union. From 2014 until 2018, she had a weekly column in the Daily Record. She has also written for LabourList and Progress.

Her father is Jeff Dugdale.

Kezia Dugdale Net Worth

Kezia Dugdale is one of the richest Politician from Scotland. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Kezia Dugdale 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

She studied law at the University of Aberdeen before attending the University of Edinburgh to study policy.

After graduating, she worked as a parliamentary assistant before being elected to represent the Lothian Region in 2011.

Dugdale was born in Aberdeen on 28 August 1981. She attended secondary school at Harris Academy in Dundee, where she was Head Girl. She studied Law at the University of Aberdeen from 1999 until 2003, and completed a Master’s Degree in Policy Studies from 2004 until 2006 at the University of Edinburgh. Whilst attending university, she worked as Campaigns and Welfare Adviser for Edinburgh University Students’ Association and as Public Affairs Officer at the National Union of Students Scotland. As well as living in Aberdeen and Dundee, she had resided in Elgin, Moray before settling in Edinburgh in 2003.

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During the 2015 leadership election campaign, Dugdale said she would want to end the charitable status of private schools in Scotland which gives them tax breaks, a policy in her opinion unfair to state schools. In a July 2015 televised leadership debate, she said it was wrong the vast majority of the 232 Labour MPs abstained on the Conservative government’s Welfare Reform and Work Bill in a second reading vote in the House of Commons. Following the resignation of Lord John Sewel on 28 July 2015, she said the House of Lords should no longer be an unelected chamber and should be moved to Glasgow. She won the leadership on 15 August, defeating Ken Macintosh.

Facts & Trivia

Kezia Ranked on the list of most popular Politician. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Scotland. Kezia Dugdale celebrates birthday on August 28 of every year.

Dugdale was elected Leader of the Scottish Labour Party in the 2015 Scottish Labour Party leadership election. She led the party into the 2016 Scottish Parliament election, where the party finished third behind the Scottish National Party (SNP) and Scottish Conservatives and Dugdale failed to be elected to the Edinburgh Eastern constituency, once again being elected on the Lothian regional list. During the 2017 general election, the party held their previously sole seat and gained a further six seats from the SNP. She resigned as leader in August 2017 to “pass on the baton” to a successor who would lead the party into the 2021 Scottish Parliament election.

Top Facts about Kezia Dugdale

1. Kezia Dugdale was the leader of Scottish Labour from 2015-2017.
2. She was an MSP for Lothian from 2011-2021.
3. Dugdale resigned as party leader in August 2017.
4. She is openly gay and a prominent LGBT rights advocate.
5. Dugdale supported remaining in the EU during the Brexit referendum.
6. In 2019, she appeared on “I’m a Celebrity…Get Me Out of Here!”
7. Dugdale has been involved in various charity initiatives, including HIV/AIDS awareness.
8. She graduated with a degree in law from Aberdeen University.
9. During her time as leader, Scottish Labour gained seats in the Scottish Parliament elections of 2016 but lost ground to the SNP in local council elections that same year.
10. In 2020, she announced she would not seek re-election to Holyrood (Scottish Parliament).

What happened Kezia Dugdale?

On 29 April 2019, Dugdale announced she would be resigning as an MSP before the summer recess of the Scottish Parliament in order to take up the role of director of the John Smith Centre for Public Service at the University of Glasgow.

Who was the previous Scottish Labour leader?

Richard Leonard (born January 1962) is a British politician who served as Leader of the Scottish Labour Party from 2017 to 2021. He has been a Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP), as one of the additional members for the Central Scotland region, since 2016.

How old is Kezia?

Answer – kezia must be four or five years old .

Is SNP left or right?

They tend to be in the moderate left grouping, though much of the 79 Group was gradualist in approach. However, this 79 Group gradualism was as much a reaction against the fundamentalists of the day, many of whom believed the SNP should not take a clear left or right position.

Why did Labour collapse in Scotland?

Labour had a net loss of 7 seats to the SNP. It also lost most of their constituency seats, although its share of the constituency vote declined by less than 1%. Labour’s defeat was attributed to their campaign being directed mostly against the government in Westminster instead of the SNP.