1. Ross Thomson was born on 21 September 1987 and is a former Scottish Conservative Party politician who was the Member of Parliament for Aberdeen South from 2017 to 2019.
20 Facts About Ross Thomson
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Ross Thomson was a Member of the Scottish Parliament for the North East Scotland region from May 2016 until June 2017.
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Ross Thomson was elected to Aberdeen City Council in the 2012 local elections.
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Ross Thomson was born in Aberdeen and educated locally at Bridge of Don Academy.
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Ross Thomson studied Politics and International Relations at the University of Aberdeen, graduating with a first class MA degree in 2009.
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Ross Thomson stood for the Scottish Parliament at the 2007 elections for the Coatbridge and Chryston constituency, coming third behind Labour MSP Elaine Smith and the Scottish National Party candidate.
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At the United Kingdom general election in 2010, Ross Thomson was selected as the Conservative Party candidate for the Scottish constituency of Gordon, and finished in fourth place, receiving 9,111 votes.
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Ross Thomson was the youngest Conservative Party candidate for the House of Commons.
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Ross Thomson was elected to the Aberdeen City Council at the 2012 election.
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Ross Thomson contested the Aberdeen Donside by-election in 2013, finishing in fourth place.
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Ross Thomson stood as the Conservatives' candidate in Aberdeen South during the 2015 general election, but was unsuccessful, and subsequently stood in the Aberdeen South and North Kincardine constituency at the 2016 Scottish Parliament election.
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Ross Thomson became a spokesman for Vote Leave in Scotland during the 2016 United Kingdom European Union membership referendum as one of the few members of the Scottish Parliament supporting a leave vote.
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On 5 October 2016, Ross Thomson repaid expenses relating to a night's stay in an Edinburgh hotel with a male friend, Braden Davy, whom he subsequently hired over the objections of the Tory chief whip.
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Ross Thomson stood down from his seat as an MSP after being elected as a Westminster MP.
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Ross Thomson was accused of trivialising the dictatorship of Saddam Hussein when he posed for photos at Hussein's military parade ground.
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Ross Thomson supported Boris Johnson in the 2019 Conservative leadership election and became his campaign manager in Scotland.
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Ross Thomson entered into a civil partnership with his partner in November 2013, which lasted until 2018.
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On 6 February 2019, various newspapers reported that Ross Thomson had been escorted by police from the Strangers' Bar of the House of Commons the previous evening.
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Eyewitnesses claimed that Ross Thomson had repeatedly groped several young men present in the bar, grabbing their bottoms and genitals.
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Ross Thomson denied any wrongdoing, citing the allegations as politically motivated.