(1937-10-04) 4 October 1937 (age 86) Ayr, Ayrshire, Scotland
Political party
SNP (from 1980)
Other political affiliations
Labour (1960–76) SLP (1976–80)
Spouse
Margo MacDonald
(m. 1981; died 2014)
Occupation
Firefighter
James Sillars (born 4 October 1937)[1] is a Scottish politician and campaigner for Scottish independence. Sillars served as a Labour Party MP for South Ayrshire from 1970 to 1976. He founded and led the pro-Scottish Home Rule Scottish Labour Party in 1976, continuing as MP for South Ayrshire until he lost the seat in 1979.
Sillars joined the Scottish National Party in 1980 and later served as MP for Glasgow Govan after winning a by-election in 1988, and was Deputy Leader of the Scottish National Party. He was married to Margo MacDonald until her death in 2014.
^"Mr Jim Sillars (Hansard)". api.parliament.uk. Retrieved 11 May 2021.
James Sillars (born 4 October 1937) is a Scottish politician and campaigner for Scottish independence. Sillars served as a Labour Party MP for South Ayrshire...
Glasgow Govan, which their deputy leader JimSillars had taken from Labour in a by-election in 1988. Sillars quit active politics after the general election...
1982, in Ayr, despite the 79 Group being bolstered by the merger of JimSillars' Scottish Labour Party (SLP) although this influx of ex-SLP members further...
Fundamentalist camp, being perceived to be allied to figures such as JimSillars and Alex Neil within the party. After MacAskill became an MSP in 1999...
Her second marriage was to politician and columnist JimSillars, whom she married in 1981. Sillars went on to win the 1988 Glasgow Govan by-election for...
This comment ended the political friendship between Salmond and Sillars, and Sillars would soon become a vocal critic of Salmond's style of leadership...
elected as Leader of the Scottish National Party. Morgan was defeated by JimSillars in the depute leadership election the following year, but served as National...
Labour Party by the MP JimSillars following disagreements over the party's policy on Scottish devolution. Ascherson, like Sillars an enthusiastic supporter...
the programme but had refused. The BBC said the programme contained JimSillars and Kenny MacAskill, who were supporters of Salmond. A later news story...
(SNP) participated, but the then party leader Gordon Wilson, along with JimSillars, decided to withdraw the SNP from participation owing to the convention's...
spokesman Colin Fox secured the support of former SNP depute leader JimSillars, who told The National: "If Colin Fox is on the list for Rise, I will...
Scottish Labour Party (SLP), JimSillars, joined the SNP along with some other SLP members. Given the SLP's stance on the left, Sillars was naturally in line...
During this time, alongside many other Scottish IMG activists, he joined JimSillars' fledgling Scottish Labour Party (SLP) using entryist tactics, a process...
the original on 20 December 2021. Retrieved 27 September 2019. Waterson, Jim (17 March 2020). "BBC to broadcast Question Time without an audience". The...
candidate. The SNP won another by-election victory in 1988, this time with JimSillars as candidate. The latest victory for the SNP was in the 2007 Scottish...
Leader JimSillars donated £2,000 to her campaign to be re-elected. “I would prefer her in the parliament to a clone on the backbenches," Sillars said....
Cohesion, which he held until 1995. The vacancy he left was filled by JimSillars of the SNP in the noteworthy Glasgow Govan by-election of 1988. In 1991...
2016). "SNP stalwart JimSillars will campaign to leave Europe and says lots of nationalists agree with him". dailyrecord. "JimSillars: Capital calls the...
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