Murdo Fraser has been MSP for Mid-Scotland & Fife since 2001. He is the Shadow Cabinet Secretary for Business, Economy, Tourism and Culture and sits on the Scottish Parliament’s Economy and Fair Work Committee. Murdo lives with his wife and two children in Perthshire. Born in 1965 and educated at Inverness Royal Academy, he graduated LLB from Aberdeen University in 1986, and went on to do the postgraduate Diploma in Legal Studies. He has since worked as a solicitor in Aberdeen and Edinburgh and prior to his election to the Scottish Parliament was an associate with Ketchen and Stevens WS in Edinburgh, specialising in commercial law. Murdo held the position of Deputy Leader of the Scottish Conservatives from November 2005 to November 2011 and has previously been Scottish Conservative Spokesman on Economy, Health, Education, Finance and Constitution. He is co-convenor of the Cross-Party Group on Scotch Whisky. Murdo is Chairman of Trustees of the National Prayer Breakfast for Scotland, and a Trustee of the Guardians of Scotland Trust. His critically-acclaimed double biography of the 1st Marquis of Montrose and the Marquis of Argyll, “The Rivals: Montrose and Argyll and the struggle for Scotland”, was published by Birlinn in 2015. He is co-host of the Scottish history podcast ‘A Thistle with Thorns’. Murdo’s interests outside politics include hillwalking (he has climbed Kilimanjaro and more than 250 Munros), football, and classic cars.