David Mundell was first elected as the Conservative MP for Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweedale in 2005, being reelected in 2019 with a majority of 3,781.
The constituency of Dumfrieshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale is a very large rural constituency spreading up from the English border. It contains the towns of Dumfries, Annan, Biggar, Gretna, Lockerbie and Sanquhar. Having been won by the Conservatives ever since its creation in 2005, this was once the only Conservative seat in Scotland. It contains the site of the 1988 Locerkbie air disaster.
Mundell served in the Cabinet as Secretary of State for Scotland between 2015 until 2019, having served as Under Secretary of State for Scotland between 2010 and 2015.
He was elected as a Member of the Scottish Parliament between 1999 and 2005 before being elected to Westminster.
David Mundell was previously the UK trade envoy to New Zealand, but resigned in July 2022 in protest as Boris Johnson continuing to remain as prime minister.
Born in Dumfries in 1962, the son of an hotelier, Mundell went to Lockerbie Academy, read law at Edinburgh University and took a master’s degree in business administration at Strathclyde University Business School.
He worked as a solicitor in private practice before joining BT as group legal adviser for Scotland, and then becoming BT Scotland’s head of national affairs.
He was previously a local government councillor in Dumfries, and in Annandale and Eskdale, during the mid 1980s, albeit for the Social Democratic Party rather than the Conservatives.
Mundell came out as a gay in 2016, and was said to have become the first openly gay Conservative Cabinet Minister. He was previously married and has three children, one of whom, Oliver Mundell, sits in the Scottish Parliament.
He supported Michael Gove in the 2019 Conservative Party leadership election, suggesting that Boris Johnson was not an asset for the Conservatives.
David Mundell is Vice Chair of the All Party Parliamentary Groups on HIV and Aids; Scottish Sport; Nutrition for Growth; Tennis; Malawi; and Secretary of the Group on Global Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT+) Rights
Email: david.mundell.mp@parliament.uk;
Personal Website: http://www.davidmundell.com
Twitter: twitter.com/DavidMundellMP
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