Henry McLeish

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The Right Honourable Henry McLeish (born June 15, 1948) is a Scottish politician. He served as the second First Minister of Scotland from 2000 to November 8 2001, following the sudden death of Donald Dewar, and had been the MP for Fife Central from 1987 to 2001 and MSP for Fife Central from 1997 to 2003. Henry resigned as First Minister in 2001 amid a scandal involving allegations he sub-let part of his constituency office without registering this, in the 'register of interests', with Parliamentary authorities.

He was a professional footballer playing for East Fife F.C., which he signed for after a spell at Leeds United F.C. and also represented Scotland as a youth international.

While First Minister he was embarassed when an open microphone recorded him making derogatory comments to Helen Liddell in a TV studio. He described John Reid as "a patronising bastard" and said of his colleague Brian Wilson "Brian is supposed to be in charge of Africa but he spends most of his time in bloody Dublin. He is a liability."

Since leaving mainstream politics Henry has become a consultant with political and public relations consultancy Halogen Communications Ltd and has written a number of books including Scotland First: Truth and Consequences and Global Scots.

Henry is also is a Hartman Hotz Visiting Professor in Law and Liberal Arts and Sciences at the Fulbright College, University of Arkansas, USA. Visiting Professor at the Graduate School of International Studies at the University of Denver, USA. Visiting lecturer at the United States Air Force Academy, Colorado Springs, Colorado, USA. Honorary Fellow at the College of Humanities and Social Science at Edinburgh University, Scotland. Honorary Fellow at the Cambridge Land Institute, Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge. Adviser, Consultant and Facilitator to the European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions and the European Monitoring Centre for Change, Dublin, Ireland. Adviser and Consultant to the LEED Programme of the OECD in Paris, France, including visits to Austria, Italy, and Mexico.

He is also a consultant in partnership with Jeremy Harrison, Cambridge (Public Value Partnership working on new project development and evaluation of existing projects in the community and voluntary sector.

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