25 Facts About Pamela Nash

Pamela Ann Catherine Nash was born on 24 June 1984 and is a British Labour Party politician who has served as the Member of Parliament for Motherwell, Wishaw and Carluke since 2024.

Pamela Nash previously served as Chief Executive of Scotland in Union, a campaign group launched in March 2015 to help keep Scotland within the United Kingdom.

Pamela Nash was born in Airdrie, North Lanarkshire, and educated locally at St Margaret's High School, Airdrie and Chapelhall.

Pamela Nash spent her first summer after high school volunteering at a school in Nyeri, Kenya, and followed this up with a placement in Uganda during her time at university.

Pamela Nash studied politics at the University of Glasgow, specialising in human rights and international development.

Pamela Nash was the parliamentary officer for the Young Fabians and a member of the Scottish Youth Parliament, where she served on the executive committee and was the convenor of the External Affairs Committee.

Pamela Nash interned for John Reid for one year as his constituency assistant and subsequently was employed for a period of three years as his parliamentary assistant.

Pamela Nash was selected as the Labour Party candidate from an all-women shortlist which, at the time, proved to be a contentious issue.

Pamela Nash was elected as the Member of Parliament for Airdrie and Shotts in 2010, taking over from John Reid.

Pamela Nash had a majority of 12,408 votes over the SNP candidate, and at the age of 25, was the youngest MP in the House of Commons, called Baby of the House.

Pamela Nash was the Parliamentary Private Secretary to the then Shadow Secretary of State for International Development, Jim Murphy.

Pamela Nash was previously Parliamentary Private Secretary to Margaret Curran as Shadow Secretary of State for Scotland and to Vernon Coaker as Shadow Secretary of State for Northern Ireland.

Pamela Nash served on the Finance Bill 2011 Public Bill Committee.

Pamela Nash was a member of the Science and Technology Select Committee, the Scottish Affairs Select Committee and the Parliamentary Space Committee.

Pamela Nash was the Treasurer of the All-Party Parliamentary Group for Multiple Sclerosis and the Secretary of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Sustainable Housing.

Pamela Nash founded and chaired the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Youth Unemployment.

In September 2010, Pamela Nash decided to support David Miliband in the Labour Party leadership election.

On 2 December 2010, Pamela Nash took part in a BBC debate on age differences in politics and the wider society with the Conservative MP Bill Cash.

Pamela Nash pledged to oppose the repeal of the Hunting Act 2004 which banned hunting of wild mammals with hounds.

Pamela Nash has campaigned on issues such as Blacklisting in employment, breaches of the National Minimum Wage, closure of local police stations and the Bedroom tax.

Pamela Nash was narrowly reselected by the Airdrie and Shotts CLP to contest her seat at the 2015 UK general election.

At the 2015 general election however, Pamela Nash lost her seat to Neil Gray of the Scottish National Party, who won by a majority of 8,779 votes.

In 2021, Pamela Nash attempted to be selected as the Labour candidate for the Airdrie and Shotts parliamentary by-election; however, she was unsuccessful, losing the nomination to Kenneth Stevenson.

On 20 April 2023, Pamela Nash was announced as the official Scottish Labour prospective parliamentary candidate for Motherwell, Wishaw and Carluke at the 2024 general election.

Pamela Nash defeated the incumbent SNP MP for the predecessor seat, Marion Fellows, and was elected by a majority of 7,085 votes.