William Arthur Roger Mullin was born on 12 March 1948 and is a former Scottish National Party politician.
17 Facts About Roger Mullin
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Roger Mullin was the Member of Parliament for Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath from May 2015, until being defeated at the 2017 snap general election.
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Roger Mullin was a Member of the Institute of Personnel and Development and holds a Higher National Certificate in Electrical and Electronic Engineering.
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Roger Mullin is an Honorary Professor at the University of Stirling, and lectured postgraduates on Applied Decision Theory, The Political Environment, and Organisation Change.
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Roger Mullin wrote a monthly column in The Times Educational Supplement Scotland.
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Roger Mullin is a Founding Director of Momentous Change Ltd.
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Roger Mullin is a former Vice-convener of the Scottish National Party.
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Roger Mullin unsuccessfully fought three earlier Westminster campaigns at the February 1974 general election in South Ayrshire, again in South Ayrshire at the October 1974 general election and at Kirkcaldy in 1987.
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Roger Mullin's wife, Barbara Mullin, was a candidate for the SNP at the 1992 general election in the Ayr constituency.
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Roger Mullin had a majority of 9,974 votes over Kenny Selbie, the Labour Party candidate who was hoping to succeed former UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown, who retired after 32 years as an MP from what had once been Labour's safest seat in Scotland.
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Roger Mullin presented a ten-minute rule bill to parliament on 20 April 2016 entitled Forensic Linguistic Bill.
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Roger Mullin led a Westminster Hall debate on the subject of The Use of Children as Suicide Bombers spelling out the significant rise on the use of children and young girls as human guided weapons.
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Roger Mullin was Chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Group for Explosive Weapons, in which capacity he addressed the 19th International Meeting of Mine Action National Programme Directors and United Nations Advisers at the United Nations in Geneva 2016.
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Roger Mullin led a Westminster Foundation for Democracy project in Iraqi Kurdistan, and while in Kurdistan, became the first British MP to enter the City of Mosul during hostilities to see at first hand work being undertaken to begin to clear the city of improvised explosive devices.
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Roger Mullin has undertaken research into Brexit and Scottish Business and initial research into a stock exchange for Scotland along with former SNP MP Michelle Thomson.
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In May 2018, Roger Mullin became part of the Advisory Team of the African Entrepreneurial Network.
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In November 2020, Roger Mullin was elected onto the SNP National Executive Committee.