| Henry McLeish | |
|---|---|
| Former First Minister of Scotland From: 27 October 2000 – 8 November 2001 | |
| Predecessor | Jim Wallace (acting) Donald Dewar (died in office) |
| Successor | Jim Wallace (acting) Jack McConnell |
| Information | |
| Party | Labour |
Henry McLeish (b. 1948), a native of Fife, is a Scottish politician and former footballer. He served as the successor to inaugural Scottish First Minister Donald Dewar from 2000 to 2001,[1] after Dewar's death in office. Jim Wallace served as acting First Minister in the interim.
Football career
Aged 15 in 1963, Henry McLeish began playing association football (soccer) for English club Leeds United.
Political views
Scottish nationalism
In the run-up to the 2016 referendum on EU Membership in the UK, in which British voters rejected the far-left globalist oligarchy of the European Union in June 2016, McLeish said that if Scotland were taken out of the EU against their wishes he would campaign for an 'independent' Scottish state controlled by the EU. This view was celebrated by the SNP's state propaganda paper The National[2]