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Iain Cumming Gray (born 7 June 1957) is a Scottish politician, currently a Labour Party Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) for the East Lothian constituency. He was the leader of Scottish Labour in the Scottish Parliament from 13 September 2008 to 17 December 2011. He resigned following his party's defeat in the 2011 Scottish Parliament elections but, due to his experience, was selected as interim leader following the resignation of Jim Murphy due to Labour's unsuccessful 2015 General Election campaign when they won one of Scotland's 59 seats. A former aid worker and teacher of maths and physics, Gray was first elected to the devolved Scottish Parliament in 1999 as the MSP for the Edinburgh Pentlands constituency, which he lost to the Conservatives in 2003. He was returned to parliament in 2007, for the East Lothian constituency. Following Wendy Alexander's resignation as Scottish Labour leader in 2008, Gray stood in the subsequent leadership election and was successful. Initially, Gray oversaw some electoral successes for Scottish Labour, such as repelling SNP challenges in the Glenrothes (2008) and Glasgow North East (2009) by-elections, as well as Scottish Labour maintaining all 41 constituencies it holds in the House of Commons at the 2010 General Election. The 2011 Scottish Parliament elections proved disastrous for the party, which lost 20 constituencies as the SNP won an outright majority of seats. Gray was re-elected in East Lothian with a majority of 151 votes. Gray announced his resignation the day after the result, but remained in post as leader until his successor, Johann Lamont, took over in December 2011. In June 2015, Gray was appointed Acting Leader of Scottish Labour whilst a leadership and a deputy leadership election are being simultaneously held, on account of the Deputy Leader, Kezia Dugdale, resigning to run for Leader. ==Background and early career== Gray was educated at Inverness Royal Academy and privately at George Watson's College, Edinburgh before studying physics at the University of Edinburgh and training as a maths and physics teacher at Moray House College of Education.〔〔http://www.iaingray.org.uk/about-iain〕 After graduation he worked as a maths and physics teacher at Gracemount High School in Edinburgh, before a teaching stint in Mozambique.〔 He then spent twelve years as the Campaigns Director for the Scottish arm of the aid charity Oxfam. Gray is a lifelong fan of Edinburgh football club Hibernian, and enjoys reading, music and hill walking. Gray has been married twice.〔http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/vli/history/whisp/whisp-02/wh106-01.htm〕 He married his first wife, Linda Malloch, in 1978 with whom he has one daughter.〔http://www.thescottishsun.co.uk/scotsol/homepage/news/article1754102.ece〕 Malloch divorced him and later married Gray's long-time friend Kevin Dunion, the Scottish Information Commissioner. Gray married his second wife Gill (a part-time constituency secretary to Labour MSP Mary Mulligan) in 1997, with whom he has two step-daughters. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Iain Gray」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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