Gordon Lindhurst

Lindhurst is an advocate from Edinburgh. He studied at the University of Edinburgh and completed his legal training with an Edinburgh law firm. He has also completed a master's degree in European law at Heidelberg University in Germany. Lindhurst supports a number of local Edinburgh charities and has also worked in central Romania with a locally based charity there which provides education and support for disadvantaged children.[1]

Lindhurst was the Conservative candidate for Linlithgow in the 1999 and 2003 Scottish Parliament elections, where he was not elected having finished third both times. He also stood in the 2001 general election in Linlithgow finishing third. Lindhurst contested the 2005 Livingston by-election, where he came fourth. In the 2015 United Kingdom general election he stood as a candidate in Edinburgh South West where he finished third, failing to be elected.[2]

In 2016 Scottish Parliament election he stood for the Edinburgh Pentlands constituency, finishing in second place.[3] Having missed out in the constituency section, he was instead elected for the Lothian regional list.[4]

Lindhurst is the Scottish Conservative spokesperson for legal affairs.[5] He is also the convenor of the Economy, Jobs and Fair Work Committee and a member of the Social Security Committee in the Scottish Parliament.[6][7]