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'These inspiring portraits will move you to continue the struggle.' - Owen Jones, Journalist and author of This Land: The Struggle for the Left.
'These inspiring portraits will move you to continue the struggle.' - Owen Jones, Journalist and author of This Land: The Struggle for the Left.
Neil Findlay left school at 16 and worked as an apprentice and tradesman bricklayer along with his father. Whilst working he attended evening classes at college before going to university. After graduating he worked as a housing officer and school teacher. He was politicised by the Miner’s strike and the poll tax and joined the Labour party at 18. In 2003 he was elected onto West Lothian Council and from 2011 – 2021 he was an MSP in the Scottish Parliament. He is a campaigner, a socialist and a trade unionist. He lives in the mining community of Fauldhouse in West Lothian and is married to Fiona, they have one daughter, Chloe.