Scottish Politician of the Year

Head of Donald Dewar in the Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum, Glasgow

Scottish Politician of the Year is an annual award established in 1999. It is held by The Herald newspaper in Prestonfield House, Edinburgh.

Although the awards ceremony has been held once at the Royal Museum, Prestonfield House Hotel is considered to be the home of the event. At the 2004 ceremony – held at the Prestonfield – former Labour MSP and life peer Mike Watson, set fire to a curtain, and was subsequently convicted of wilful fire raising.[1]

Not all of the subsidiary awards are handed out every year.

  1. ^ "Fire-raising peer sent to prison". BBC News. 22 September 2005. Retrieved 28 September 2014.