THE Mundell family had plenty to celebrate after Oliver Mundell won the Dumfriesshire seat for the Conservatives.
For they will now have an MSP in the Scottish Parliament and father David is the Scottish Secretary and only Scottish Tory MP at Westminster.
Oliver’s taste for politics was whetted by the Scottish Referendum and he helped co-odinate the Better Together Campaign, securing one of the highest no votes in Scotland.
In his fight to win the seat he has put in a mammoth campaign and recently completed a tour of 75 local communities.
Galloway and West Dumfries has been a stronghold for the Conservatives for many years and was held by Alex Fergusson, the former Presiding Officer at the Scottish parliament, until he retired last month.
His majority was cut to 862 at the last election and the Conservative cause was taken up by Finlay Carson, the only local born and bred candidate in the field.
And it proved to a successful campaign by Finlay, who fought off a strong SNP challenge led by Aileen McLeod.
Finlay praised his predecessor and said he would have large boots to fill. He added that he had received tremendous backing from Mr Fergusson for the past two years and who had knocked on the doors with him during the campaign.
Finlay, from Twynholm, near Kirkcudbright, campaigned with ’support the local boy’ high on his agenda.
Along with his brother, he runs an IT support firm at Conchieton Farm, Twynholm, which they setup after farming for 15 years.
Finlay who completed a BSC in Agriculture at Aberdeen University, said: “Since 2012 I have served as councillor in Dumfries and Galloway and my background gives me an extensive background into the needs, concerns, opportunities and challenges that live and work in the region.”
Oliver Mundell, a former pupil at Moffat Academy
Why are you making commenting on The Herald only available to subscribers?
It should have been a safe space for informed debate, somewhere for readers to discuss issues around the biggest stories of the day, but all too often the below the line comments on most websites have become bogged down by off-topic discussions and abuse.
heraldscotland.com is tackling this problem by allowing only subscribers to comment.
We are doing this to improve the experience for our loyal readers and we believe it will reduce the ability of trolls and troublemakers, who occasionally find their way onto our site, to abuse our journalists and readers. We also hope it will help the comments section fulfil its promise as a part of Scotland's conversation with itself.
We are lucky at The Herald. We are read by an informed, educated readership who can add their knowledge and insights to our stories.
That is invaluable.
We are making the subscriber-only change to support our valued readers, who tell us they don't want the site cluttered up with irrelevant comments, untruths and abuse.
In the past, the journalist’s job was to collect and distribute information to the audience. Technology means that readers can shape a discussion. We look forward to hearing from you on heraldscotland.com
Comments & Moderation
Readers’ comments: You are personally liable for the content of any comments you upload to this website, so please act responsibly. We do not pre-moderate or monitor readers’ comments appearing on our websites, but we do post-moderate in response to complaints we receive or otherwise when a potential problem comes to our attention. You can make a complaint by using the ‘report this post’ link . We may then apply our discretion under the user terms to amend or delete comments.
Post moderation is undertaken full-time 9am-6pm on weekdays, and on a part-time basis outwith those hours.
Read the rules hereLast Updated:
Report this comment Cancel