Livingston Conservative Candidate

Conservative party last night announced its candidate for the by-election triggered by the death of Robin Cook, former foreign secretary.

Gordon Lindhurst is 38 years old, single and lives in West Lothian. He studied Scots Law at Edinburgh University and undertook further legal studies, including European law, at Glasgow and Heidelberg universities.

He works as an advocate and is a former teacher of English in Germany. His interests include cabinet making, metalworking, voluntary work, hillwalking and cycling.

He contested Linlithgow in the 1999 & 2003 Scottish Parliament elections and the 2001 Westminster election.