Member of the Scottish Parliament for Lothian (1 of 7 Regional MSPs)
Incumbent
Assumed office 15 July 2019
Preceded by
Kezia Dugdale[b]
In office 5 May 2011 – 23 March 2016
Member of the Scottish Parliament for Edinburgh Central
In office 6 May 1999 – 5 May 2011
Preceded by
Constituency established
Succeeded by
Marco Biagi
Scottish Labour portfolios
2014–2016
Shadow Cabinet Secretary for Rural Affairs, Food and Environment
2019–2021
Shadow Cabinet Secretary for Local Government
2021–present
Shadow Cabinet Secretary for Environment, Climate Change and Land Reform
Personal details
Born
Sarah Herriot Boyack
(1961-05-16) 16 May 1961 (age 63) Glasgow, Scotland
Political party
Scottish Labour
Spouse
Andrew Walters
(m. 2000; div. 2003)
Alma mater
University of Glasgow Heriot-Watt University
Profession
Town planner
Website
www.sarahboyack.com
Sarah Herriot Boyack (born 16 May 1961) is a Scottish Labour politician who has served as a Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) for the Lothian region since 2019, and previously from 2011 to 2016. She formerly represented the Edinburgh Central constituency from 1999 to 2011.
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Sarah Herriot Boyack (born 16 May 1961) is a Scottish Labour politician who has served as a Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) for the Lothian region...
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leadership contest, with the winner to be announced on 13 December. SarahBoyack became the first person to confirm that she would be standing as a candidate...
from 2006 until 2008, as well as serving as an election agent to both SarahBoyack MSP and Sheila Gilmore MP. She had also volunteered as a researcher in...
October 2018. Retrieved 4 October 2018. "Scottish Labour reshuffle as SarahBoyack returns to frontline politics". www.scotsman.com. 2 September 2019. Retrieved...
Denham, Mark Lazarowicz and Margaret Curran, and MSPs Johann Lamont and SarahBoyack. Many of those involved in Clause Four subsequently became active in...
from the Scottish Parliament in 2019, former MSP and Transport Minister SarahBoyack took her place on the Lothian regional list. In the September, Leonard...
ministers. Sam Galbraith and Angus MacKay stood down and Jackie Baillie, SarahBoyack and Tom McCabe reshuffled out of government, while Susan Deacon was offered...
operation of the Labour Party in Scotland, co-chaired by Murphy and SarahBoyack MSP. The review included a recommendation for a new post of Leader of...
defence. Murphy co-chaired the review of the Labour Party in Scotland with SarahBoyack, commissioned by Ed Miliband in May 2011 in response to the landslide...
reshuffle as SarahBoyack returns to frontline politics". www.scotsman.com. Retrieved 4 September 2019. "Scottish Labour reshuffle as SarahBoyack returns...
McHugh (2023–present) Current MSPs Jackie Baillie Claire Baker Neil Bibby SarahBoyack Foysol Choudhury Katy Clark Pam Duncan-Glancy Rhoda Grant Mark Griffin...
McConnell Preceded by Henry McLeish (Enterprise and Lifelong Learning) SarahBoyack (Transport and Planning) Succeeded by Iain Gray Minister for Communities...
formed in 1999 and prior to its inaugural election. Until the Murphy and Boyack review in 2011, the office was Leader of the Labour Party in the Scottish...
The Murphy and Boyack review was a report compiled by Jim Murphy and SarahBoyack on the future structure of the Labour Party in Scotland, in response...
United Kingdom, including; Gordon Brown, Chancellor of the Exchequer, and Sarah Brown Jack Straw, Home Secretary John Swinney, Leader of the Scottish National...
McHugh (2023–present) Current MSPs Jackie Baillie Claire Baker Neil Bibby SarahBoyack Foysol Choudhury Katy Clark Pam Duncan-Glancy Rhoda Grant Mark Griffin...
the Labour MSPs later that year. A review chaired by Jim Murphy and SarahBoyack into the party's structure in Scotland subsequently concluded that the...
Labour was known as the Labour Party in Scotland until the 2011 Murphy and Boyack review, when the title was changed to Leader of the Scottish Labour Party...
open to non-SNP members; among those who joined were Susan Deacon and SarahBoyack, who later became Labour MSPs. However the society was short-lived. The...
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