10 Things You Didn’t Know About Mike Pringle

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Mike Pringle was born on the 25th of December 1945
He is a Scottish Liberal Democrat politician and former Member of the Scottish Parliament for Edinburgh South 2003−2011
Mike was born in Northern Rhodesia (modern-day Zambia) and educated at Edinburgh Academy
He is a keen follower of Heart of Midlothian F.C. and was a strong supporter of the campaign to prevent the sale of the club’s Tynecastle stadium in 2004
He is a strong supporter of the Free Tibet Campaign and has introduced a Bill into the Scottish Parliament to introduce a levy on plastic bags in Scotland similar to the successful Irish plastic bag tax
Mike has been an Honorary Vice-President of English-Speaking Union Scotland
From 1992 to 2003 he was a member of Edinburgh City Council
In the 1997 UK general election he ran unsuccessfully as a candidate in Edinburgh South, and in the equivalent constituency in the 1999 Scottish Parliament election
He was re-elected in the 2007 Scottish Parliament election
He lost the redrawn seat of Edinburgh Southern to the SNP’s Jim Eadie in the 2011 Scottish Parliament election

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