Gordon Jackson (politician)
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Gordon Jackson (born 5 August 1948) is a Scottish Labour Party politician and was the MSP for Glasgow Govan from 1999 to 2007. He studied law at the University of St Andrews.
Since 1990 he has been a QC, and despite his commitments to the parliament, he continued to be a practising lawyer, for which he drew a lot of criticism. In the Scottish Parliament he had a habit of spending large amounts of time away at Court and then returning to Parliament just before the vote at 5.00pm; it earned him the nickname "Crackerjack"—after the children's programme Crackerjack that famously started at 4.55pm.
In the Scottish Paliament elections on 3 May 2007, he lost his seat to the SNP's Deputy Leader, Nicola Sturgeon.
He is also an Honorary Vice-President of English-Speaking Union Scotland.
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| Preceded by Constituency Created |
Member of the Scottish Parliament for Glasgow Govan 1999–2007 |
Succeeded by Nicola Sturgeon |
