Ian Borthwick is a former

independent politician An independent or non-partisan politician is a politician not affiliated with any political party or bureaucratic association. There are numerous reasons why someone may stand for office as an independent. Some politicians have political views th ...

initially a member of the Labour Party who served in local government starting in 1963, and was

Lord Provost of Dundee The Lord Provost of Dundee is the chair and civic head of the City of Dundee local authority in Scotland. They are elected by the city council and serve not only as the chair of that body, but as a figurehead and Lord Lieutenant for the city. T ...

between 2017 and 2022. He was Scotland's longest-serving councillor and Dundee's oldest politician, having celebrated fifty years in local government in June 2013. He was first elected to Dundee Town Council in 1963, then joined Tayside Regional Council in 1975 and Dundee City Council in 1996. In 2017, Borthwick became

at the age of 78, following an agreement which saw the SNP group on the council form a minority administration. In 2022, Borthwick retired after sixty years as a councillor and five years as the city's lord provost.

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