1. Stephen Patrick Gethins was born on 28 March 1976 and is a Scottish National Party politician and academic serving as the Member of Parliament for Arbroath and Broughty Ferry since the 2024 general election.
14 Facts About Stephen Gethins
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Stephen Gethins previously served as the MP for North East Fife from 2015, until he lost the seat at the 2019 general election to Wendy Chamberlain of the Liberal Democrats.
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Stephen Gethins graduated with a Bachelor of Laws degree from the University of Dundee in 1998, specialising in public international law.
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Stephen Gethins holds a Master of Research from the University of Kent.
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Stephen Gethins worked in the NGO Sector specialising in peace-building, arms control and democracy in the Caucasus and the Balkans regions.
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Stephen Gethins worked with NGO Links in Tbilisi focusing on the conflicts surrounding the breakaway entities in the South Caucasus such as South Ossetia, Abkhazia and Nagorno-Karabakh.
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Stephen Gethins worked for Saferworld on arms control, peace-building and democratisation in the former Soviet Union and Balkans.
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Stephen Gethins was appointed a Special Adviser to Scotland's First Minister, Alex Salmond, advising on European and International Affairs as well as Rural Affairs, Energy and Climate Change and subsequently advised Nicola Sturgeon.
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Stephen Gethins was a Political Advisor with the Committee of the Regions in the European Union, a position which saw him working with local authorities from across Europe.
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Stephen Gethins was on the list of SNP candidates for the six Scottish seats in the 2014 European Parliament election, although only the first two SNP candidates were elected.
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Stephen Gethins won 18,523 votes and received a majority of 4,344 votes over the Liberal Democrat candidate, Tim Brett, who was selected after the retirement of the seat's long-term Lib Dem MP and former party leader, Sir Ming Campbell.
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At the 2017 general election, Stephen Gethins was narrowly re-elected as the MP for North East Fife.
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Stephen Gethins received 13,743 votes, giving him a very slim majority of just two votes over the Liberal Democrats; the joint-third smallest majority in British political history.
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In July 2020, Stephen Gethins was announced as the chair of 'eu+me'- a campaign for a close relationship between Scotland and the EU after Brexit.