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	Henry McLeish
		Henry McLeish was born in Fife and educated at Buckhaven High and Heriot-Watt University where he gained a BA (Hons) in urban planning.
		In 1987 McLeish was elected as MP for Central Fife and was appointed as Deputy Scottish Spokesman in 1992.
		McLeish won election to the first Scottish Parliament in 1999 when he was elected as the MSP for Central Fife and was appointed to be Minister for Enterprise and Lifelong Learning in the Executive
	homepage.ntlworld.com /jt.williams/dev/mcleish.htm (334 words)

	First Minister of Scotland - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		He was replaced by Henry McLeish (Labour) who also served in the position only very briefly being forced to resign after a scandal involving his expense claim whilst a Westminster MP.
		McLeish denied any intentional wrongdoing, claiming it was a "muddle, rather than a fiddle", but significant pressure was brought to bear upon him and he felt he had no option other than to resign which he did in 2001.
		McLeish's replacement was Jack McConnell (Labour) who had stood unsuccessfully against McLeish for leadership of the Scottish Labour Party, which would have effectively guaranteed his confirmation as First Minister then.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/First_Minister_of_Scotland (488 words)

	The Right Honourable Henry McLeish
		While McLeish was a Westminster MP between 1987 and 1998, before the advent of devolution, he sub-let his constituency office in Glenrothes, Fife, but failed to register it, or refund the income to the House of Commons.
		McLeish fought against these calls for him to go, claming all along that the issue was "a muddle, not a fiddle", but eventually succumed to the pressure to resign on November 8.
		Henry McLeish was a professional footballer playing for East Fife F.C., which he signed for after a spell at Leeds United F.C. and also represented Scotland as a youth international.
	www.martinfrost.ws /htmlfiles/may2006/henry_mcleish.html (496 words)

	Fife Central (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		With the departure of Henry McLeish and Tricia Marwick to the Scottish Parliament, the new battle for Fife Central at the 2001 Westminster election was between two Fife Councillors.
		Henry McLeish may have felt a certain irritation as his old regional ward of Kennoway & Windygates was represented by two SNP councillors - Cllr David Alexander in Windygates, Star & Balgownie and Cllr Bryan Thacker in Kennoway.
		McLeish insisted that it was due to a muddle rather than attempted fraud and police announced in March 2003 that they would not be prosecuting Mr McLeish, by which time he had resigned as First Minister, as candidate for Fife Central, and paid back some £38,500.
	www.alba.org.uk /scot03constit/m03.html (2135 words)

	Encyclopedia: Jack McConnell (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Upon Dewarâs death in 2000, he contested Henry McLeish for the position of First Minister, but lost out in the ballot, instead becoming Minister for Education, Europe and External Affairs under McLeish.
		McLeish would later be forced to resign over the affair regarding the sub-let of his constituency office, and on November 22, 2001, McConnell would become First Minister after running unopposed.
		His first reshuffle of the cabinet in Scotland was controversial as he axed a number of ministers loyal to McLeish and other figures in the party.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Jack-McConnell (1269 words)

	Henry McLeish MP (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Henry McLeish MP Henry McLeish MP To use the old football cliché Henry McLeish's political career was a game of two half’s.
		It is also the case that many people while acknowledging Henry McLeish's success make the point and he himself would be one of them that he had the advantage of a very experienced group of councillors like the late Bert Gough and also John McDougal and Tom Dair.
		Henry McLeish was elected as MP for Central Fife in 1987.
	www.fifelabour.org.uk /HISTORY/henrymcleish.htm (384 words)

	The Scotsman - S2 Weekend - What Henry did next (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		As a minister, McLeish took the Scotland Act through the Commons, arguing every clause and amendment and he believes there is no-one more qualified than he to help the government sort out the problems presented by the creation of regional government.
		McLeish also harbours ambitions to play some sort of role in Europe, almost certainly in an advisory capacity, but he will not even tell close friends what the details of these plans are.
		McLeish will begin his process of rehabilitation at home through the Fraser Inquiry and, if he is exonerated completely of playing any part in the early decisions which led to the Holyrood fiasco, then this will continue through his book early next year.
	thescotsman.scotsman.com /s2.cfm?id=1039982003 (1308 words)

	Scotland on Sunday - Top Stories - McLeish's wife off work as Officegate scandal deepens (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Family friends say Julie McLeish, has been suffering stress as a result of the political tumult which saw her husband leave his post in November after the ‘Officegate’ scandal, and has only worked a handful of days in her job at the social work department of Fife Council since.
		Last night Fife Democratic Left Councillor Alexander Maxwell urged McLeish’s wife to make a statement on whether she was aware that the funding had been given to a group which had ceased to operate as a charity.
		MSPs say they believe that McLeish’s wife is suffering from stress and that the former First Minister had "not been himself" since he stood down at the end of last year.
	scotlandonsunday.scotsman.com /index.cfm?id=129302002 (997 words)

	BBC NEWS \| In Depth \| McLeish resignation \| Profile: Henry McLeish
		In the late 1980s and 1990s, Mr McLeish was a shadow spokesman for several portfolios, including transport, health and social security.
		Mr McLeish was fiercely loyal to Mr Dewar and was perceived as a "safe pair of hands" into which the baton for leading the Scottish Executive and Scottish Labour could be passed following the former first minister's death.
		Potentially more harmful in the long term was Mr McLeish's inability to resolve the matter in the eyes of the public and the media.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/in_depth/scotland/2001/mcleish_resignation/1644816.stm (513 words)

	The Daily Record - NEWS - EXCLUSIVE: MCLEISH SPLITS FROM WIFE
		FRIENDS of shamed former First Minister Henry McLeish last night blamed his long trips alone to the States for the break-up of his marriage.
		McLeish's first wife loyally supported him throughout his rise from local councillor to MP and then MSP.
		McLeish had always been keen to protect his wife from the harsh realities of political life and was especially distressed that she was dragged into the Officegate scandal.
	www.dailyrecord.co.uk /news/tm_objectid=16861538&method=full&siteid=66633&headline=exclusive--mcleish-splits-from-wife-name_page.html (1011 words)

	Henry McLeish \| Aristotle \| Guardian Unlimited Politics
		Henry McLeish is determined that devolution will mean that Scotland can decide for itself on issues like university fees and personal care for the elderly.
		As a strong devolutionist, he was one of the original signatories of the claim of right at the inaugural meeting of the 1989 Scottish constitutional convention which paved the way for devolution.
		Having lost its founding father Mr McLeish will have to use all his political acumen to ensure that the new parliament becomes part of Scottish life outside the Edinburgh elite.
	politics.guardian.co.uk /profiles/story/0,9396,458049,00.html (687 words)

	The Scotsman - Top Stories - Where are Henry’s friends now?
		HENRY McLeish is finding out the hard way who his friends really are.
		It has exposed the cosy network of cronyism in the jobs-for-the-boys world of local government, it has uncovered expenses’ "muddles" costing the taxpayer tens of thousands of pounds and it has also shown how keen politicians are to bury one of their own when he becomes a liability.
		As Mr McLeish was one of the foremost exponents of the quietly placed, off-the-record brief in his time, there is a certain ironic symmetry to his present predicament.
	thescotsman.scotsman.com /index.cfm?id=274742002 (740 words)

	Scotland’s first minister resigns
		In contrast, McLeish was thought to be a “safe pair of hands.” Little more than a year later, however, McLeish is leaving office a broken man—and perhaps facing prosecution—driven out by allegations of petty fraud and tax dodging.
		McLeish famously described his predicament as a “muddle not a fiddle”; saying the whole affair was a result of mistakes, not deliberate fraud.
		However, the close scrutiny McLeish was subjected to threatened to attract scrutiny to the numerous comparable relations established by the Labour Party in its decades of local government rule in Scotland, exposing the complex network of political, media and business connections that constitute its active membership.
	www.wsws.org /articles/2001/nov2001/scot-n15.shtml (994 words)

	Why did Henry McLeish have to go when other MPs have survived worse? in The AnswerBank: News
		Scottish first minister, Henry McLeish, resigned on November 8 over a row about expenses which was was turning into a police investigation.
		When Henry McLeish was an MP in Westminster, he claimed the full £8,700 rent allowance for his constituency office in Glenrothes, Fife.
		Mr McLeish said he considered the matter closed and refused to answer any further questions about earlier sub-lets and what was done with the money.
	www.theanswerbank.co.uk /article2230.html (311 words)

	House of Commons - Standards and Privileges - Fourth Report
		Mr McLeish had not, however, declared the fact that he was receiving this income in the Register of Members' Interests.
		On the same day, Mr McLeish was reported to have confirmed on the BBC programme "Question Time" that part of his office had been sub-let to others prior to the sub-let to Digby Brown in 1998, but to have indicated that he did not know how much money he had received in rent before 1998.
		Additionally, if Mr McLeish can produce information or documents which will substantiate a claim that sub-let income prior to 1994/95 was used to pay for expenses wholly, exclusively and necessarily incurred on parliamentary business that, too can be considered for set off against the amount repaid.
	www.parliament.the-stationery-office.co.uk /pa/cm200203/cmselect/cmstnprv/946/94604.htm (3473 words)

	Holyrood Inquiry : Transcript 29-10-2003 AM
		Mr McLeish: Yes, but again with qualification, that was the kind of situation throughout the UK Cabinet set-up, so I don’t think any Ministers of State had access on their own to a special adviser.
		Mr McLeish: Only to the point that we, as usual, would be circulated with the draft of the speech from the special advisers, be given a chance to comment, be given a chance to acknowledge, and that was really the way that papers were done.
		Mr McLeish: Yes, but I think that’s the important distinction, with respect Chairman, to Mr Campbell’s question because this was not a process — because that’s not the character of self-aggrandisement — for the Secretary of State for Scotland at that moment in time.
	www.holyroodinquiry.org /transcripts_documents/29-10-2003-am/transcript29-10-2003-am.htm (14211 words)

	Your attack on Jack was pure humbug, Henry - Evening Times (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		They do score points against him but, more often than not, he comes out ahead either because he can deflate their arguments or dodge being pinned against the ropes by simply ignoring what they are saying.
		McLeish's legacy was the 2014 Ryder Cup and free personal care for the elderly, a policy which will eventually be ditched despite its worth, because of insupportable costs.
		Oddly, for a leader as confident as McConnell, he appears to have been irritated by McLeish's remarks and retaliated with the rejoinder that his first priority when he took over was to introduce stability.
	www.eveningtimes.co.uk /lo/features/7010604.html (675 words)

	Edinburgh Evening News - Top Stories - McLeish to bow out of politics
		Labour activists in his constituency had selected Mr McLeish as the candidate for the May poll, but the party's national executive was said to be refusing to back him.
		Mr McLeish was forced to resign as First Minister in November of last year after mounting scrutiny over undisclosed income from the sub-let of his constituency office in Glenrothes.
		Earlier this week Mrs McLeish was reported to be suing Fife Council for as much as £1 million, claiming she had been treated unfairly in the report and wrongly blamed.
	edinburghnews.scotsman.com /index.cfm?id=987702002 (434 words)

	BBC News \| SCOTLAND \| Henry McLeish - profile
		Henry McLeish was elected as first minister of the Scottish Parliament last year following the sudden death of Donald Dewar.
		In keeping with the conventon agreed by other MPs elected to the Scottish Parliament in 1999, he stood down from the Westminster seat ahead of the general election this year to focus his energies on Holyrood.
		Potentially more harmful in the long term has been Mr McLeish's inability to resolve the issue in the eyes of the public and the media.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/scotland/1639070.stm (473 words)

	ESPN.com Soccernet Scotland: News - McLeish lends his weight to 2008 bid
		Henry McLeish has expressed confidence that the SFA can succeed in their bid to host the 2008 European Championship finals or, as is feasible, co-host them along with the Republic of Ireland.
		In a Sunday newspaper interview, McLeish noted that Scotland has already made a strong bid to stage the 2009 Ryder Cup and, of course, is due to host the European Cup Final in Glasgow next spring.
		McLeish said: 'I'm not being parochial, but you have to acknowledge that all too often these days when you listen to the team line-ups at any SPL fixture you have to remind yourself you're not living in a foreign country.
	www.soccernet.com /scotland/news/2001/0122/20010122mcleish2008.html (696 words)

	SSP News : News from the Scottish Socialist Party
		This report details the original complaint by Tommy Sheridan that Henry McLeish lied to Parliament in contravention of Article 2.8 of the Code of Conduct which says “Members have a duty to act honestly”.
		Today’s report details McLeish’s excuse that he changed his mind after he was forced to resign as First Minister for fiddling his office rent and expenses.
		I calculate that Henry McLeish will have got over £1 million from the taxpayer by the time he is 70.
	www.scottishsocialistparty.info /2002/12/sheridan-slams-greedy-mcleish-scottish.html (434 words)

	University of Arkansas - Daily Headlines
		Fayetteville, Ark. - Former First Minister of Scotland Henry McLeish will deliver the 2004 Hartman Hotz Lecture in Law and the Liberal Arts on "Results of the U.S. Presidential Race: The European Response?" at 8 p.m.
		The Right Honorable Henry McLeish is serving as the inaugural holder of the Hartman Hotz Visiting Professorship in Law and Liberal Arts, a joint position in Fulbright College and the School of Law.
		Henry McLeish, Hartman Hotz Visiting Professor in Law and Liberal Arts, J. William Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences and the School of Law, (479) 575-4747, h.b.mcleish@btinternet.com
	dailyheadlines.uark.edu /text/1846.htm (729 words)

	Thursday 8 November PM
		Asked the reasons for Henry McLeish's resignation, the PMOS said that as he understood it, there were reports on the Scottish broadcast media which, post- statement, set out more of the background to Mr McLeish's decision.
		Asked when the Prime Minister had spoken to Mr McLeish, the PMOS said they had spoken at around 10.30am this morning while the Prime Minister was returning to Downing Street from Heathrow.
		Asked the last time the Prime Minister had spoken to Mr McLeish specifically about the rent issue, the PMOS said he was not aware the Prime Minister had spoken to him about it.
	www.pm.gov.uk /output/page2358.asp (745 words)

	Scotsman.com News - Henry McLeish memoirs - Wilson scorns 'treacherous' McLeish (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		HENRY McLeish’s memoirs about his time as first minister are today denounced by one of his former Westminster peers as a "self-serving smear" on the Labour Party.
		He argues that Mr McLeish has only himself to blame for his ignominious fall from power, triggered by the discovery of sub-letting contracts in his constituency office while he was claiming Westminster expenses.
		Mr McLeish’s suggestions that the Scottish Labour Party is ridden with sectarianism, Mr Wilson continues, are "malicious and perhaps paranoid".
	news.scotsman.com /topics.cfm?tid=1085&id=224292004 (688 words)

	Scottish Affairs, E.Bort, No 34, Winter 01 (online article)
		Henry McLeish won the contest, but Jack McConnell scored a much higher percentage of the vote than expected.
		Henry McLeish ordered a comprehensive review of polices, and some contours of this 'pragmatic approach' are already visible.
		In what he described as a 'progressive programme' for change, Henry McLeish indicated his desire to find a way to take forward the recommendations of the Kerley Report and the issue of proportional representation for local government elections.
	www.scottishaffairs.org /onlinepub/sa/bort_sa34_winter01.html (1028 words)

	McLeish No Longer Trustworthy
		Glenrothes Scottish Socialist Party reiterated their demand that Henry McLeish stand down from the Scottish Parliament in the light of a sixth undeclared office rent.
		Henry McLeish must have been aware that they were there, and the rental cheques were made out to Henry B McLeish.
		Either Henry McLeish deliberately misled the Scottish Parliament and his constituents when he claimed a few days ago to have made a full disclosure, or he is suffering from a condition affecting memory akin to dementia.
	sspglenrothes.freehosting.net /senile.htm (307 words)

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