Michael William Russell
(born 9 August 1953) is a Scottish politician who served as
from 2020 to 2021. He served as
Cabinet Secretary for Education and Lifelong Learning
The Cabinet Secretary for Education and Skills, commonly referred to as the Education Secretary, is a position in the Scottish Government Cabinet responsible for all levels of education in Scotland. The Cabinet Secretary is supported by the Min ...
from 2009 to 2014 and
from 2018 to 2020. A member of the
Scottish National Party
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(SNP), Russell has been President of the SNP since November 2020. He was the
Member of the Scottish Parliament
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Electoral system
The ad ...
(MSP) for
Argyll and Bute
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from 2011 to 2021, having previously served as a
list MSP for
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from 1999 to 2003 and 2007 to 2011.
Russell previously worked as a television producer and director and the author of seven books. He was Chief Executive of the SNP from 1994 to 1999 and was elected to the
Scottish Parliament
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as a regional MSP for the South of Scotland at the first Scottish Parliament elections in 1999. However, he lost his seat in the
2003 Scottish Parliament election
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. He was elected again in May 2007 and was appointed
Minister for Environment
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in Scotland's
first-ever SNP administration by First Minister
Alex Salmond
Alexander Elliot Anderson Salmond (; born 31 December 1954) is a Scottish politician and economist who served as First Minister of Scotland from 2007 to 2014. A prominent figure on the Scottish nationalist movement, he has served as leader ...
.
He was then reshuffled on 10 February 2009 to become
Minister for Culture, External Affairs and the Constitution
The Cabinet Secretary for Economy, Fair Work and Culture, commonly referred to as the Economy Secretary or the Culture Secretary, was a Scottish Government Cabinet position with responsibility for the economy and culture of Scotland. The role w ...
, and was later promoted to the
Scottish Cabinet on 1 December 2009 replacing
Fiona Hyslop
Fiona Jane Hyslop (born 1 August 1964) is a Scottish politician who served as Cabinet Secretary for Economy, Fair Work and Culture from 2020 to 2021. A member of the Scottish National Party (SNP), she has been a Member of the Scottish Parliamen ...
as
Cabinet Secretary for Education and Lifelong Learning
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until November 2014. He was a professor of culture and governance at the
University of Glasgow
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from 2015 to 2016. Russell later served in
Nicola Sturgeon
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's government as
Minister for UK Negotiations on Scotland's Place in Europe
The Cabinet Secretary for the Constitution, External Affairs and Culture, commonly referred to as the Constitution Secretary, is a cabinet position in the Scottish Government. The Cabinet Secretary is supported by the Minister for Culture, E ...
from August 2016 to June 2018. He returned to the Cabinet in 2018 as Cabinet Secretary for Government Business and Constitutional Relations.
Background
Russell was born in
Bromley
Bromley is a large town in Greater London, England, within the London Borough of Bromley. It is south-east of Charing Cross, and had an estimated population of 87,889 as of 2011.
Originally part of Kent, Bromley became a market town, char ...
, Kent to an English mother and a Scottish father.
He grew up in
Troon
Troon is a town in South Ayrshire, situated on the west coast of Ayrshire in Scotland, about north of Ayr and northwest of Glasgow Prestwick Airport.
Troon has a port with freight services and a yacht marina. Up until January 2016, P&O Ferrie ...
,
where he attended
Marr College
Marr College (Scottish Gaelic: ''Colaiste Mhàrr'') is a co-educational secondary school in Troon, South Ayrshire, Scotland. It is owned by the Marr Trust and is operated by South Ayrshire Council which was transferred to then Strathclyde Regiona ...
. He went to
Edinburgh University
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, where he studied first
theology
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and then Scottish history and literature.
He worked in television and the media prior to establishing his own media company, Eala Bhan Ltd.
Russell is conversant in
Gaelic
Gaelic is an adjective that means "pertaining to the Gaels". As a noun it refers to the group of languages spoken by the Gaels, or to any one of the languages individually. Gaelic languages are spoken in Ireland, Scotland, the Isle of Man, and Ca ...
and gave a speech in the language which was the first occasion the
European Council
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was addressed in Gaelic.
Journalist Chris Deerin described him as "a man of culture – and he is likely to tell you so".
Political career
Russell was Chief Executive of the
SNP in the period prior to the
first Scottish election of 1999 and has been an active member of the SNP for over three decades, often working closely with former party leader
Alex Salmond
Alexander Elliot Anderson Salmond (; born 31 December 1954) is a Scottish politician and economist who served as First Minister of Scotland from 2007 to 2014. A prominent figure on the Scottish nationalist movement, he has served as leader ...
.
Originally a member of the
Labour club at
Edinburgh University
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, Russell joined the SNP in 1974 during the
February election of that year, was active in Edinburgh, in the
Western Isles
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and in the
Inverness constituency and stood for the first time for as an SNP candidate in 1984 in
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in a
local government
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election. He was then the Clydesdale candidate for the
Westminster Parliament in June 1987. Later that year he became the elected Vice Convenor of the SNP responsible for Publicity (succeeding Alex Salmond) and in 1990 was Salmond's
campaign manager
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during the SNP leadership campaign.
During that time he worked as executive director of Network Scotland, a media and educational company, but he gave up his party posts in 1991 to concentrate on establishing his own TV production company, Eala Bhan Ltd. He returned to active politics in December 1994 when he became the SNP's first full-time Chief Executive. In that role, he was the party's
election director for the 1997 and 1999 campaigns as well as for the successful
Perth and Kinross
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by-election in 1995 (having been deputy campaign director in the
1992 General Election and for the
Govan
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and
Glasgow Central by-elections of 1987 and 1988).
In November 2020, Russell was elected President of the SNP.
Scottish Parliament
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He was placed second by the party on the
South of Scotland South of Scotland may refer to:
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list for the 1999 Scottish Parliament elections (as well as standing for the
Cunninghame South Constituency which he also fought in 2003) and after his election was appointed SNP
Business Manager
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in the new Parliament which resulted in him becoming a founding member of the
Parliamentary Bureau. After
John Swinney
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was elected leader of the SNP in 2000, Russell became Shadow Minister for Education and Culture, a post he held until 2003. He was named as "Debater of the Year" in the ''
Herald
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'' Awards in 2000, and was nominated for "
Scottish Politician of the Year
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Although the awards ceremony has been held once at the Royal Museum, Prestonfield House Hotel is co ...
" in the same awards in 2002 as well as for the
Channel 4
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"Scottish Politician of the Year" title.
When he lost his seat at the end of the first Scottish Parliament, Russell focused on his work as an author and newspaper columnist, commenting on various aspects of
Scottish culture
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and
Scottish politics
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. He did, however, stand for the leadership of the SNP in 2004, in the election prompted by John Swinney's resignation. He finished third behind
Alex Salmond
Alexander Elliot Anderson Salmond (; born 31 December 1954) is a Scottish politician and economist who served as First Minister of Scotland from 2007 to 2014. A prominent figure on the Scottish nationalist movement, he has served as leader ...
and
Roseanna Cunningham
Roseanna Cunningham (born 27 July 1951) is a retired Scottish National Party (SNP) politician who served as Cabinet Secretary for Environment, Climate Change and Land Reform from 2016 to 2021. She was previously Cabinet Secretary for Fair Work, ...
. Russell continued as a political commentator, generating some controversy with his strongly
free market
In economics, a free market is an economic system in which the prices of goods and services are determined by supply and demand expressed by sellers and buyers. Such markets, as modeled, operate without the intervention of government or any o ...
views in his book, ''Grasping The Thistle'', in which he called for the NHS to be abolished and replaced with an insurance based healthcare system.
It also called for inheritance tax and the
Barnett Formula
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to be scrapped and a voucher system introduced for education.
Many SNP members saw Russell's absence from the
Scottish Parliament
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as a great loss to the SNP's profile and performance there. In 2006 he was once again placed second on the SNP regional list in the
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though this time the list was chosen by a
one member, one vote
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system for which Russell had argued over a long period and was re-elected to Parliament in 2007. He was also the party's candidate in the
Dumfries
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constituency.
Following the SNP's narrow victory at the
2007 Scottish Parliament Election
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, Russell was appointed the
Minister for Environment
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.
In the first reshuffle of the SNP Government in February 2009, Russell was moved to be Minister for Culture, External Affairs and the Constitution.
In December 2009 Russell was promoted to the
Scottish Cabinet as
Cabinet Secretary for Education and Lifelong Learning
The Cabinet Secretary for Education and Skills, commonly referred to as the Education Secretary, is a position in the Scottish Government Cabinet responsible for all levels of education in Scotland. The Cabinet Secretary is supported by the Min ...
following the repositioning of
Fiona Hyslop
Fiona Jane Hyslop (born 1 August 1964) is a Scottish politician who served as Cabinet Secretary for Economy, Fair Work and Culture from 2020 to 2021. A member of the Scottish National Party (SNP), she has been a Member of the Scottish Parliamen ...
to Culture, Tourism and External Affairs.
Russell left the
Scottish Cabinet in November 2014, when
Nicola Sturgeon
Nicola Ferguson Sturgeon (born 19 July 1970) is a Scottish politician serving as First Minister of Scotland and Leader of the Scottish National Party (SNP) since 2014. She is the first woman to hold either position. She has been a member of ...
took over as First Minister. On 25 August 2016 he was appointed as the Scottish government's new minister with responsibility for Brexit negotiations with the UK government.
During the pandemic he called for Britain to join the EU's vaccine procurement scheme, tweeting about the British Government's decision to go it alone: "This idiotic refusal is all about Brexit and nothing to do with the pandemic. It will cost lives.". The success of the U.K. vaccine procurement and rollout programme compared to the shambolic and slow EU rollout has proven Russell wrong.
He announced in 2020 that he would not be standing for re-election in 2021.
In November 2020 he was elected to the honorary position of SNP President – having campaigned on a platform of holding an independence referendum in autumn 2021.
Russell won 60% of the vote, beating political blogger
Craig Murray
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Between 2002 and 2004, he was the British ambassador to Uzbekistan during whi ...
, who placed second, and former MP
Corri Wilson
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Early life
Wilson worked in the Civil Service for 2 ...
, who placed third.
Campaigner
For many years, Russell has campaigned for justice on behalf of former police detective,
Shirley McKie
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, who was awarded £750,000 compensation by the
Scottish Executive in a February 2006 out-of-court settlement. The Justice 1 committee of the Scottish Parliament conducted a nine-month inquiry into the McKie case in 2006, and its report was published on 15 February 2007. In April 2007, Michael Russell and Shirley's father, Iain McKie, published a book on what they described as the worst miscarriage of justice in a generation: ''Shirley McKie – The Price of Innocence'' (). Shirley McKie's case assumed an international significance with a possible linkage to the case of convicted Lockerbie bomber,
Abdelbaset al-Megrahi
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, who was granted leave to appeal against his conviction for a second time by the
Scottish Criminal Cases Review Commission
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on 28 June 2007. Megrahi's
appeal
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began in Edinburgh on 28 April 2009, and a
public inquiry
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into the McKie case started in Glasgow on 2 June 2009.
Russell supported the successful campaign to have
The Tinkers' Heart in Argyll listed as a Scheduled Monument, with listing taking place in 2015.
Academic career
In May 2015, the University of Glasgow announced that Russell would be taking up a part-time post as a professor of culture and governance.
Controversies
Russell attracted criticism regarding the negative depictions of Scottish towns and cities included in his 1998 travel book ''In Waiting: Travels in the Shadow of Edwin Muir.'' In his book, Russell said of
Glasgow
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: "Pull over and stop the car (if you dare) and walk into the closes smelling of urine and rubbish, cluttered with dirt and debris. It is not uncommon to have to step over a comatose body, with or without a needle by its side."
The Scottish capital was also described in a less than positive light: "The flag on
Edinburgh Castle
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is an awful mutant tablecloth and the
National Trust for Scotland
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is arrogant and elitist."
In November 2009, Russell was engaged in a controversy when his most senior aide was forced to resign after being exposed by the News of the World as the author of an online political blog with controversial content.
In January 2011 Russell was referred to the parliamentary standards watchdog over allegations that he tried to influence school closures for his own electoral benefit. "The MSP was reported to Holyrood's standards watchdog after a leaked email revealed he quizzed SNP councillors about their support for the axing of local schools. The message, sent from Mr Russell's parliamentary account, concerned proposed closures in the area where he is due to seek election in May. He now represents the South of Scotland but will stand as a candidate in Argyll & Bute." Kilmodan Primary, the school nearest to Russell's home was later amongst those saved from closure as well as Toward Primary where his wife Cathleen was headteacher (Cathleen had also been headteacher at Kilmodan).
In January 2011 Mrs Russell transferred to Sandbank Primary School, which was safe from closure.
Russell was also accused of interfering in school closure decisions taken by councils. "The
Convention of Scottish Local Authorities
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History
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(Cosla), the body which represents council leaders, has now written to Mr Russell accusing him of failing to act in a "consistent, pragmatic and limited way"."
Russell was further accused of "bullying" in his dealings with Shetland Islands Council where the council was asked to postpone cost-cutting school closures. "Mr Russell was last night accused of "bullying" councils into agreeing to his moratorium. A senior local government source said: 'Russell is acting like a school bully on this and bullying councils into backing this delay.'"
Books and publications
Russell has written several books, including:
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Personal life
Russell married Cathleen MacAskill, a primary school head teacher, in March 1980 and they have one son, Cailean. Since August 1992 the family have lived in an 18th-century single storey farm dwelling in
Glendaruel
Glendaruel (Gaelic: ''Gleann Dà Ruadhail'') is a glen in the Cowal peninsula in Argyll and Bute, Scotland.
The main settlement in Glendaruel is the Clachan of Glendaruel.
Features
The present Kilmodan Church was built in the Clachan of Glen ...
on the
Cowal
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The northern part of the peninsula is covered by the Argyll Forest Park managed by Forestry and Land Scotland. The Arrochar ...
peninsula
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in
Argyll and Bute
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.
Russell previously separated from his wife for a time after he lost his seat at Holyrood in 2003 and had an affair with his researcher Eilidh Bateman. Bateman, who was 21 years his junior, later dumped Russell just 10 days after he publicly announced he was leaving his wife.
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1953 births
Living people
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