Lorraine Davidson is a British television and newspaper journalist. She has worked as an STV and

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political correspondent, and for the

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Career

Davidson was STV's Westminster correspondent until she joined the BBC's political unit in 1997. In May 1998, she became Director of Communications for the Scottish Labour Party, under leader

Donald Dewar Donald Campbell Dewar (21 August 1937 – 11 October 2000) was a Scottish politician who served as the inaugural First Minister of Scotland and Leader of the Labour Party in Scotland from 1999 until his death in 2000. He previously served as ...

, two weeks after Paul McKinney unexpectedly quit. She served until July 1999. She later wrote a biography of First Minister and Scottish Labour leader

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. She also worked at the ''

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'' and, as of 2017, works for ''

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''.

Personal life

She is a previous partner of then-South Lanarkshire council leader Tom McCabe, who later became a

Member of the Scottish Parliament Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP; gd, Ball Pàrlamaid na h-Alba, BPA; sco, Memmer o the Scots Pairliament, MSP) is the title given to any one of the 129 individuals elected to serve in the Scottish Parliament. Electoral system The ad ...

and junior minister. She is now wife of

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, former

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for

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and co-convener of the

Citizens' Assembly of Scotland The Citizens' Assembly of Scotland ( gd, Seanadh Saoranaich na h-Alba) is a citizens' assembly that was established in 2019 by the Scottish Government to deliberate on three broad issues of Scottish society: *What kind of country are we seekin ...

since 2019.

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