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Bill Speirs

British politician

Died when: 57 years 199 days (690 months)
Star Sign: Pisces

 

Bill Speirs

William MacLeod Speirs (8 March 1952 – 23 September 2009) was a Scottish trade union leader, a socialist and internationalist.He was General Secretary of the Scottish Trades Union Congress.

Speirs was a key figure in left-wing Scottish politics, chairing the Scottish council of the Labour party at the 1987 general election, and being a prominent member of various groups of the Bennite left, e.g. the Labour Co-ordinating Committee and .

Speirs was also a high-profile advocate of Scottish devolution, e.g. he was instrumental in the creation of , was a member of the Scottish Constitutional Convention, and was a member of the group that drafted the key document in 1995


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