Mike Watson, Baron Watson of Invergowrie

The Lord Watson of Invergowrie
Watson in 2020
Shadow Minister for Education
Assumed office
18 September 2015
LeaderJeremy Corbyn
Keir Starmer
Minister for Culture and Sport
In office
22 November 2001 – 20 May 2003
First MinisterJack McConnell
Preceded bySam Galbraith
Succeeded byFrank McAveety
Member of the House of Lords
Lord Temporal
Assumed office
19 November 1997
Life Peerage
Member of the Scottish Parliament
for Glasgow Cathcart
In office
6 May 1999 – 22 September 2005
Preceded byConstituency established
Succeeded byCharlie Gordon
Member of Parliament
for Glasgow Central
In office
15 June 1989 – 8 April 1997
Preceded byBob McTaggart
Succeeded byConstituency abolished
Personal details
Born (1949-05-01) 1 May 1949 (age 75)
Cambuslang, Scotland
Political partyScottish Labour Party
Alma materHeriot-Watt University
OccupationPolitician

Michael Goodall Watson, Baron Watson of Invergowrie (born 1 May 1949), is a British Labour Party politician. He has served in two legislatures in the United Kingdom and served as Minister for Culture and Sport in the Scottish Executive Cabinet, and a convicted criminal.

Watson was expelled from his party on 22 September 2005 following his conviction and imprisonment for fire-raising at Prestonfield House, but was re-admitted to the Labour Party in July 2012.[1] He currently sits as a Labour member of the House of Lords[2] and is an Associate Director of the Edinburgh public affairs and communications company Caledonia Consulting.

On 18 September 2015, the new Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn appointed Watson as Education spokesman in the House of Lords.[3][4]

  1. ^ Cite error: The named reference record was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ "Lord Watson of Invergowrie". www.parliament.uk. Retrieved 19 September 2015.
  3. ^ Fraser Nelson, Jeremy Corbyn appoints convicted arsonist Mike Watson as his education spokesman at spectator.co.uk dated 18 September 2015
  4. ^ Michael Settle, Jeremy Corbyn appoints disgraced peer Lord Mike Watson to Labour frontbench dated 18 September 2015 at heraldscotland.com