Katrina Murray

Katrina Murray
MP
Official portrait, 2024
Member of Parliament
for Cumbernauld and Kirkintilloch
Incumbent
Assumed office
4 July 2024
Preceded byStuart McDonald
Majority4,144 (10.1%)
Personal details
Political partyLabour

Katrina Laidlan Murray[1] is a Scottish Labour Party politician who has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Cumbernauld and Kirkintilloch since 2024.[2]

In the 2010 United Kingdom general election, she was the Labour candidate for Dundee East but lost to Stewart Hosie from the Scottish National Party (SNP).[3]

In 2018, Murray was involved in an internal policy dispute within Labour's National Policy Forum after "Katrina Murray, the NPF's vice-chair, was dramatically over-ruled on the floor of the meeting by Andy Kerr, the chair of Labour's ruling National Executive Committee."[4]

On 30 August 2024, in the House of Commons, Murray asked the Prime Minister Keir Starmer, to roll back devolution and constrain how the SNP Government can spend its Budget. This was subsequently noted on X, by @MSM_Monitor "Murray is effectively asking an English party to curtail the powers of the Scottish parliament because Scottish voters chose the SNP and not her branch party. These colonial puppets are very dangerous. Blinded by British Nationalist hatred and fuelled by idiocy."[5]

  1. ^ "Members Sworn". Parliamentary Debates (Hansard). Vol. 752. Parliament of the United Kingdom: House of Commons. 10 July 2024.
  2. ^ "Cumbernauld and Kirkintilloch | General Election 2024 | Sky News". election.news.sky.com. Retrieved 5 July 2024.
  3. ^ "2010 General Election Candidates - LRC". l-r-c.org.uk. Retrieved 14 October 2024.
  4. ^ "EXCL Labour hit by bullying row over treatment of senior female official at key meeting". Politics Home. 25 February 2020. Retrieved 8 August 2024.
  5. ^ https://x.com/msm_monitor/status/1851632996031279357